Lived Quotes
4465 Lived quotes by 2988 unique authors
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I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.
— Joshua Lederberg
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When I saw all of the people I have known all these years, when we got together, it was scary because B.B King and I…
— Ruth Brown
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Alas, I have done nothing this day! What?! Have you not lived? It is not only the fundamental but the noblest of your occupations.
— Unknown Author
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When I consider that the noble animals have been exterminated here - the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the beaver, the turkey,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I have lived so long because in those moments when I am dancing, I am beyond time and space.
— Ruth St. Denis
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for…
— Horace
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I wish I lived on a planet that had two suns-regular sun and "rogue" sun. That way, when somebody asked me what time it was,…
— Jack Handey
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Frank knew that no man had ever crossed the desert on foot and lived to tell about it. So, he decided to get back in…
— Jack Handey
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I remember how the other kids used to say that old Mister Swenson was the meanest man in town. But I said I thought he…
— Jack Handey
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I wish I lived back in the Old West days, because I'd save up my money for about twenty years so I could buy a…
— Jack Handey
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If there was a terrible storm outside, but somehow this dog lived through the storm, and he showed up at your door when the storm…
— Jack Handey
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If you lived in the Dark Ages, and you were a catapult operator, I bet the most common question people would ask is, "Can't you…
— Jack Handey
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The auditorium, named after a dead Queens politician is windowless in honor of the secrecy in which he lived and, probably, the bank vaults he…
— Jimmy Breslin
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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a…
— Aldous Huxley
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The gifts of an honorable, well-lived life are in those who will miss you once you're gone.
— Donald E. Williams, Jr.
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Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely
— Arnold Bennett
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Lots of people think, well, we're humans; we're the most intelligent and accomplished species; we're in charge. Bacteria may have a different outlook: more bacteria…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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When death comes, we take off our clothes and gather everything we left behind: what is dark, broken, touched with shame. When Death demands we…
— Linda Gregg
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Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to…
— Terence Stamp
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...there is no doubt something will be done sooner or later to enable us to put on a house every day, just as we put…
— Ettore Sottsass
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I've lived too long and I've lived too well.
— Nancy Lancaster
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I didn't picture myself as even a grandmaster, to say nothing of aspiring to the chess crown. This was not because I was timid -…
— Anatoly Karpov
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Instead of asking yourself what everyone else's opinion is going to be and how your action will be perceived by others, ask yourself, 'How do…
— Wayne Dyer
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Each day is a new life. Each moment is really a new life. What we call memories are really present thoughts. What we call anticipations…
— Emmet Fox
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Family violence is an entrenched epidemic that we've lived with since time began, so we've got a long way to go. But I do believe…
— Rosie Batty
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