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I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism.

Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.

Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die.

I collect art, and I drink wine... things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never said, 'I'm going to buy art to impress this crowd.' That's just ridiculous to me. I don't live my life like that, because how could you be happy with yourself?

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

I think every athlete has their window of opportunity, and you just have to jump on it. You never know when it can end. So I'm just trying to live large while I have the opportunity.

The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.

From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.

That's a good way to live, go against the wind.

I like girls who like the countryside, put on walking boots and can bend with the wind a bit. If you're going to live with me, you need to be able to embrace the countryside and wet dogs.

I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it.

This record has a lot of influences that I'd love to cover, like Marvin Gaye and Earth, Wind and Fire. Maybe I'll do some covers of my major influences during my live show.

I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.

Being a runner means you are now "free" to win and lose and live life to its fullest.

Number three, we're going to play very smart and we're not going to beat ourselves. If the other team is better than us and they just out execute us and play better then we can live with that, but we're going to play smart and give ourselves every opportunity to win the game.

You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted.

You're not really ready to live unless you know what you're willing to die for.

I'd just gotten into Los Angeles from Texas, where I live, and the phone rang and it was the guy calling about the Willie Nelson video. I was totally excited about it.

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.

Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.

Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.