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Quotes To Live By (page 115)

Louisa May Alcott quote: "So every day is a battle, and I'm so tired I don't want to..."
So every day is a battle, and I'm so tired I don't want to live; only it's cowardly to die till you have done something. Louisa May Alcott
I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a living--all I had to do was wait around in order to live better than my parents. Anthony Bourdain
As I became a creature of the empty tunnels, survival became easier and more difficult all at once. I gained in the physical skills and experience necessary to live on. I could defeat almost anything that wandered into my chosen domain. It did not take me long, however, to discover one nemesis that I could neither defeat nor flee. It followed me wherever I went - indeed, the farther I ran, the more it closed in around me. My enemy was solitude, the interminable, incessant silence of... R. A. Salvatore
Michael Crichton quote: "It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear."
It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear. Michael Crichton
The truth is that Dr. Juvenal Urbino's suit had never been undertaken in the name of love, and it was curious, to say the least, that a militant Catholic like him would offer her only worldly goods: security, order, happiness, contiguous numbers that, once they were added together, might resemble love, almost be love. But they were not love, and these doubts increased her confusion, because she was also not convinced that love was really what she most needed to live. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Europeans hate us because we’ve retired to live inside our advertisements, like hermits going into caves to contemplate. We sleep in symbolic bedrooms, eat symbolic meals, are symbolically entertained- and that terrifies them, that fills them with fury and loathing because they can never understand it. Christopher Isherwood
Barack Obama quote: "People with disabilities deserve the chance to build a life..."
People with disabilities deserve the chance to build a life for themselves in the communities where they choose to live. Barack Obama
Love transforms and love cures; but, sometimes, love builds deadly traps and can end up destroying a person who had resolved to give him or herself completely. What is this complex feeling which, deep down, is the only reason we continue to live, struggle and improve? Paulo Coelho
I love you. As the same value, as the same expression, with the same pride and the same meaning as I love my work, my mills, my Metal, my hours at a desk, at a furnace, in a laboratory, in an ore mine, as I love my ability to work, as I love the act of sight and knowledge, as I love the action of my mind when it solves a chemical equation or grasps a sunrise, as I love the things I've made and the things I've felt, as *my* product, as *my* choice, as a shape of my world, as my best mirror,... Ayn Rand
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. J. D. Salinger
Dante Alighieri quote: "Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes..."
Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge. Dante Alighieri
Whittaker Chambers quote: "[It is b]etter to die on the losing side than to live under..."
[It is b]etter to die on the losing side than to live under communisim. Whittaker Chambers
Edward Abbey quote: "When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's..."
When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in. Edward Abbey
June Jordan quote: "Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little..."
Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying. June Jordan
Ralph Ellison quote: "And I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than..."
And I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others. Ralph Ellison

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