Lived Quotes

Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.

The first time I lived in L.A. I was too young. I really wanted to be back home in Vancouver.

Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.

I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement.

That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.

When I married Paul, we lived in St John's Wood in London. We had nice next-door neighbours, but you don't know anyone else. Everyone lives in isolation.

I'll die before I'm 25, and when I do I'll have lived the way I wanted to.

I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace.

I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John F. Kennedy was murdered, cutting short a presidency that was growing ever more promising. Dreams died that day in Dallas; it is easy to imagine the 1960s turning out rather differently had President Kennedy lived.

I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the - you know, there was a lot of water around. Niagara Falls was about four or five miles away.

With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them.

The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.

I finally figured out what my crime was. I lived. Big mistake.

There's a difference between someone who's 'harsh' and someone who is 'hard.' Life was hard. You lived in the South, as my grandparents did, and you had to survive. That is hard.

I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence.

All of my policy is not based on a label. It's based on what I lived and what I know.

I like to just think of myself as a normal person who just has a passion, has a goal and a dream and goes out and does it. And that's really how I've always lived my life.

And when I have lived elsewhere, every two weeks I have to fly back to LA. Even New York directors go there to audition. So I have to be there to a degree.

My uncle was the town drunk - and we lived in Chicago.

I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.

And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.

It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a job for the people who lived through it.

We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement.

I thought I understood the story very well, because I've lived with it for so long. But movies change and take on a life of their own once they start to be made, and you have to keep your eye on the real ball, not the ball that's in your head.

The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived.

Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about it which surprised me.

If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.