Lived Quotes

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.

Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.

Understand life's mysteries - as mysteries to be lived.

Here's how I've lived my life: I've never been late to a set. I make films I believe in. I feel privileged to be able to do what I love.

Our family has lived in Iran for 2,500 years, and Iranian Jewry has the long history in that land.

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Life is lived on the edge.

The British are so funny. It's like they can't believe I lived in Hackney. 'You could live in Bondi Beach. Why would you want to live in 'Ackney?' But Hackney's fantastic. I'm serious. There are so many artists there. I loved the markets, the parks, the pubs, the diversity. It was a cultural melting-pot.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.

What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

The pollution they produce, market, sell, and show to billions around the world is at its core contemptuous of the country that gave them better lives than nearly 100 percent of everybody who's ever lived. And they pass that contempt along for everyone to see.

My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her.

Life is short, and it is here to be lived.

I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me.

I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived.

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

I told him he'd have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer.

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived.

I lived crazy really young. So now I don't need to go out and get nuts.

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life.

I certainly want to get back to the U.S. to play. It's such a big country. I've always liked playing there, and enjoyed living there. I lived in New York, LA, and Florida.

For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.

I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios.