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Let me live in my house by the side of the road And be a friend to man.

Sam Walter Foss

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Johannes Tauler

The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.

Roughly, for me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Jawaharlal Nehru

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Gaston Bachelard

Once more, never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength; but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.

Never let a day so pass that you will have cause to say, "I will live better tomorrow,"

We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.

To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.

If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.

Nikita Khrushchev

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder 'censorship,' we call it 'concern for commercial viability.

Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died.

Giacomo Meyerbeer

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

I live a very dull life here and know nothing that passes in the town — I never go to any public place; indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else. There are certain bounds set for me which I must not depart from; and as I cannot do as I like, I am obstinate, and stay at home a great deal.

Martha Washington

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

To live in hearts we leave behind
Is not to die.

Thomas Campbell

Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power, again, and its rather well-known impurities. Who is really going to care whether you live or die and who is going to know the most intimate motivation for your laughter and your tears is the only person to be trusted to speak for you and to decide what you will or will not do.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.