Live By Quotes - Page 18

• When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

  James A. Baldwin

  Literature, Habit, Quotations

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• I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Real, Accomplishment

  "George W. Bush Reluctantly Re-Enters the Spotlight" by Mary Dooe, www.cbsnews.com. October 22, 2010.

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• Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Learning, People, Pockets

  'Letters to his Son' (1774) 22 February 1748

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• Unfortunately I don't live by a Target now, so I just go to a regular Starbucks as opposed to a Starbucks nested inside a Target, which is my ideal situation. That works out for me. I like that white noise, those interruptions, and the people around me.

  Diablo Cody

  White, People, Work Out

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• Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

  John Churton Collins

  Attitude, Favors, Claims

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• There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it.

  Louis C. K.

  Thinking, People, Evil

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• He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.

  Ray Dalio

  Glasses, Balls, Crystals

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• Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

  Annie Dillard

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Time

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.274, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

  Walt Disney

  Children, Learning, Ideas

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• As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will stand out. And I think that's how we get judged by our colleagues and that's how we get judged by the good lord.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Thinking, Our Actions, Lord

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• When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Law, Special, Different

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• To know nothing is the happiest life.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Life, Inspire, Knows

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• I live by 'Earnin' and burnin'.' Meaning, I like to make money and spend it before I even have it. That's the way I live my life.

  Will Ferrell

  Way, Making Money, Living My Life

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• What we live by we die by.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Dies

  Robert Frost (2004). “North of Boston”, p.68, 1st World Publishing

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• My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, 'Today is what I have.'

  Amber Heard

  Friendship, Best Friend, Blow

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• I'm a bit claustrophobic, I don't like crowds, I live by the sea - that's what I see when I come out of my house in Bridlington.

  David Hockney

  Sea, House, Crowds

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• I live by the 80/20 rule: I'm 80 percent healthy, and then 20 percent indulgent.

  Miranda Kerr

  Healthy, Percent

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• I'm sorry about your face." Jamie looked over his shoulder, and touched the demon's mark crawling along his jaw with the back of his hand. "Sorry about saving all our lives by doing something you had to do?" "Oh no," Nick said blandly. "I just meant, you know. Generally.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Sorry, Hands, Saving

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• Being liked for the way you looked is worse than not being liked at all.

  Amanda Hocking

  Way, Appearance

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• That's why we live by a river. Occasionally, I forget and pat Lit on the back--' 'I hate that.' King Midas & Lit

  Rick Riordan

  Kings, Hate, Rivers

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• Creation is thus God's presence in creatures. The Greek Orthodox theologian Philip Sherrard has written that "Creation is nothing less than the manifestation of God's hidden Being." This means that we and all other creatures live by a sanctity that is inexpressibly intimate, for to every creature, the gift of life is a portion of the breath and spirit of God. (pg. 308, Christianity and the Survival of Creation)

  Wendell Berry

  Mean, Greek, Survival

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.308, Counterpoint

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• And we are not mountaintop sages who can live by consuming mist.

  Mineko Iwasaki

  Sage, Mist, Consuming

  Mineko Iwasaki, Rande Brown (2012). “Geisha Of Gion: The True Story Of Japan's Foremost Geisha”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Unhappy, Trying, Depth

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• if i have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over - only living with the mistakes you've made. but then, caleb taught me long ago you can't build anything without some sort of foundation. maybe we learn to live our lives by understanding, firsthand, how not to live them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mistake, Long Ago, Starting Over

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.302, Simon and Schuster

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• Our father was a great warrior. Our mother is proud and strong. They shared only one flaw: that their only loyalty was to themselves above all other cats. We're not like that. We understand what it means to be loyal to our Clan. We have the courage to live by the warrior code. And because of that we'll be the most powerful cats in RiverClan one day, and our Clanmates will have to respect us then.

  Erin Hunter

  Loyalty, Mother, Strong

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