Lived Quotes
4465 quotes by 2988 authors
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When I was three years old, I went to an orphanage, but because of the beatings, I ran away when I was five and lived…
— Unknown Author
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The best of Donald Westlake's pseudonymous thrillers about Parker, the toughest burglar who ever lived. . . .Out of print for years and years, Butcher's…
— Terry Teachout
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Did you know that the Stegosaurus lived further away from the Tyrannosaurus Rex than we are from the Tyrannosaurus Rex in time?
— Jonah Peretti
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I just lived it and did my own thing without looking over my shoulder. I think I'm very lucky, considering when I started everything, and…
— Jon Secada
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Calvin had long been uneasy in his own person and so lived to put everyone else at ease.
— Edward P. Jones
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I’ve never lived my life by the expectations society puts on you. When something doesn’t feel right or isn’t going the way it should, I…
— Unknown Author
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I like writing teen characters because they’re vulnerable to the newness of things; and vulnerability makes emotional responses raw, vital and unguarded. Lacking a context…
— Allan Stratton
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Any profession of faith…entrusts the mind and heart to a truth that cannot be proven but can be lived.
— Luke Timothy Johnson
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I love contemporary poetry because it moves between what we call poetry and what we call philosophy. It joins these fields and makes writing more…
— Etel Adnan
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There is, in every event, whether lived or told, always a hole or a gap, often more than one. If we allow ourselves to get…
— Brian Evenson
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There are persons who can speak no more, whose very names have vanished. Yet a name excised from the verge where it once lived still…
— Unknown Author
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I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.
— Amy Krouse Rosenthal
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The only way to engineer the future tomorrow is to have lived in it yesterday.
— Bill Buxton
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One can only know as much as one has lived to know, though it is certainly possible to learn a great deal less than this.
— Unknown Author
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Words were different when they lived inside of you.
— Benjamin Alire Saenz
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I'm fifty-one years old, but I'm not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in quite a lot more.
— Hedy Lamarr
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I never used to sleep much. I think we all go through a bit of a time like that where we rage about. If we…
— Diane Cilento
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If you fixate on the worst-case scenario and it actually happens, you’ve lived it twice.
— Michael J. Fox
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Don't spend a lot of time imagining the worst-case scenario. It rarely goes down as you imagine it will, and if by some fluke it…
— Michael J. Fox
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I lived that life for real, so to talk about it was like a joke, you know what I mean?
— Tone-Loc
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