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Live Quotes

Different ways of living, side by side.

This collection uses "live" as its thread but covers unusually varied ground — from reflections on how long humanity might last, to observations about wealth and poverty coexisting closely in Mexico. For quotes on love and connection, see Love quotes.

Too many security officers live day to day. They just want to be treated with dignity.

Quotes by John Wilson

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Quotes by John Wooden

The mandate of financial fair play in Europe is for clubs to live within their means.

Quotes by John W. Henry

I wasn't interested in having to live with a camera - I have a hard enough time getting along with myself. I don't need cameras around and all that action.

Quotes by John Trudell

I never really made a choice to live in America, so I should be aware of the social strata outside of the ones that I may live in.

Quotes by John Updike

My interest generally is the hidden Americans; the ones who live far away from the headlines.

Quotes by John Updike

What is Southern California but an ever-changing dreamscape backdrop for the postmodern ideal? The psychology of the postmodern world is the continual state of change as we live in its idealist manufactured dream, built by developers.

Quotes by John Van Hamersveld

There's probably a way to use that great content and to live under the radar now and then in order to reach a new audience. That's the thinking I'm talking about.

Quotes by John Tesh

Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past.

Quotes by John Thorn

There had to be something else out there that would help me change. I wanted to live.

Quotes by John Sweeney

I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.

Quotes by John Searles

And as part of my activity there, he had indicated he wanted me to work with him on that and conduct the various technical tests. And so a few months later I moved from Southern California up to the Monterey...

Quotes by John Sexton

I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the sky, looking down and keeping record books.

Quotes by John Shelby Spong

I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into sin, I see us rather emerging into higher and higher levels of consciousness and higher...

Quotes by John Shelby Spong

If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more.

Quotes by John Shelton Reed

All communities have a right to clean water. The taxpayers of Pueblo should not have to carry the burden of the clean up cost simply because they live downstream.

Quotes by John Salazar

People in California don't live in a place so much as they do a condition.

Quotes by John Sandford

Judges have to have the humility to recognize that they operate within a system of precedent, shaped by other judges equally striving to live up to the judicial oath.

Quotes by John Roberts

I live way out in the country, in truck-country.

Quotes by John Romero

There's a certain steely resolve when you decide to live in a city and decide to raise children in the city. And if you're doing it properly, you have sort of a heightened awareness anyway.

Quotes by John Ross Bowie

Frequently Asked Questions

What are these "Live" quotes about?
They cover a mix of big and small ideas - from a claim that we live "roughly speaking, in the last generation of human beings," to an observation about wealth and poverty existing side by side in Mexico, to a short, stark line: "Schizophrenia demons live in my head."
Is there a quote about mental health here?
Yes, one short, direct quote states simply, "Schizophrenia demons live in my head." It's a personal statement about living with the condition, without further elaboration.
Is there a quote touching on politics or national security?
Yes, one quote comes from someone speaking as a presidential candidate, pledging to keep America safe, pursue terrorist networks including Osama bin Laden, and reject living in fear as national policy. For more on themes of safety and resolve, see the Like page.
Does this page mention inequality or social conditions?
Yes, one quote observes that in Mexico, wealth and poverty "live next to each other and are cordial with each other," based on the speaker's own experience. Browse the Life page for more reflections on how people experience the world around them.
Is there a big-picture or philosophical quote in this collection?
Yes - one quote puts forward the idea that we live "roughly speaking, in the last generation of human beings," a striking, long-held belief the speaker shares without much further explanation. For a different tone, the Love page offers warmer reflections, or browse Me for more personal ones.

Some entries are personal and difficult, touching on mental health, while others come from public figures discussing national security and counterterrorism policy after 9/11. Related themes continue in Life quotes and Me quotes.