Quotes on Live By

Give light, and people will find the way...

Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.

Should I become President...I will not risk American lives...by permitting any other nation to drag us into the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time through an unwise commitment that is unwise militarily, unnecessary to our security and unsupported by our allies.

Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?

All lovers live by longing, and endure: Summon a vision and declare it pure.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.

Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.

Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.

To know nothing is the happiest life.

Men live by forgetting and woman live on memories.

Take what's useful, discard what is not.

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

If you carry someone else's fears and live by someone else's values, you may find that you have lived their lives.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.