Lived Quotes
4465 Lived quotes by 2988 unique authors
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Once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we have lived under…
— Gerry Spence
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I have lived on a razors edge. So what if you fall off. I'd rather be doing something I wanted to do. I'd walk it…
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all…
— William Faulkner
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What I know for sure is that it's only when you make the process your goal that the big dream can follow. That doesn't necessarily…
— Oprah Winfrey
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Everybody wants to have a goal - I gotta get to that goal, I gotta get to that goal, I gotta get to that goal.…
— Sid Caesar
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Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this…
— Liv Tyler
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I'm not interested in living in a fantasy world ... All my work is still meant to evoke real architectural spaces. But what interests me…
— Lebbeus Woods
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All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and…
— A. A. Gill
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Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived. What was then…
— David Starkey
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Much evil must befall a country before it ever really forgets the Elves, if once they lived there.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber. The events, the…
— John Steinbeck
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Life is a lie if truth is not found. Truth is just an idea if it is not lived. It is living that matters.
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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Youth is when you think you'll live forever. Old age is when you wonder how you've lived so long.
— Sam Ewing
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Once we are self-aware, we must choose purposes and principles to live by; otherwise the vacuum will be filled, and we will lose our self-awareness…
— Stephen Covey
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Few ever lived to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.
— Unknown Author
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SIR,-Your letter of February the 18th came to hand on the 1st instant; and the request of the history of my physical habits would have…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.
— Seneca the Younger
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I lived a dangerous life. Stealing cars, I could have been shot. Robbing people, I could have been killed. Nothing in existence holds any terror…
— Richard Ramirez
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If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain
— Ai Weiwei
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That in the winter, seeing a tree stripped of its leaves, and considering that within a little time, the leaves would be renewed, and after…
— Brother Lawrence
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I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many…
— David Remnick
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How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?
— Edgar Lee Masters
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I got hit a lot. I'm glad I lived through it.
— Leon Spinks
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On two legs, Mickey Mantle would have been the greatest ballplayer who ever lived.
— Nellie Fox
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They were not easy years. You have to understand, I was raised in a lovely neighborhood, as was Mitt, and at BYU, we moved into…
— Ann Romney
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