Live By Quotes - Page 26

• We hope we are moving toward a world where sexual orientation is not an issue, because we hate the idea of a gay ghetto. I think that it's a real shame that people become restricted by their sexuality or define their whole lives by their sexuality.

  Neil Tennant

  Hate, Real, Moving

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most occasions be somewhat more; otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up a family, and the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Race, Would Be

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.28

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• In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.

  John Locke

  Law, Common, Reason

  John Locke, John W. Yolton (1977). “The Locke Reader: Selections from the Works of John Locke with a General Introduction and Commentary”, p.279, CUP Archive

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• I always say to people when I'm trying to get something going, bringing on other producers or other directors, "You can think of 95 reasons why not to make a movie. You've got to address why you want to make the movie and get it done. Just do it." I tend to live by that rule.

  Ridley Scott

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• My dad is my everything. He always had the craziest speeches for Kylie [Jenner] and me growing up, good words to live by.

  Kendall Jenner

  Growing Up, Dad, Speech

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• They say that you can't live by bread alone, but I can live on compliments.

  Mark Twain

  Bread, Compliment, I Can

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• The free person does not live by an unexamined faith. To do so is to worship an idol whittled out and made into a fetish.

  James Luther Adams

  Idols, Doe, Worship

  James Luther Adams (1986). “The Prophethood of All Believers”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• We learn to treasure words that people call us;
  we learn to live by words that hurt. We cannot toss
  them aside, so in time they become our dignity.

  Mark Doty

  Hurt, People, Toss

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• We do not live by what is possessed but by what is promised.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Possessed

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• If you live by the same values and priorities [Jesus] had, you will find evangelism happening naturally. It becomes a life-style and not a project.

  Rebecca Pippert

  Jesus, Priorities, Style

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• It's not the troubles we run into, it's what we do about them which determines their net effect upon our lives ... by the very act of trying, our spirit is making progress.

  Nick Baylis

  Running, Progress, Trying

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• It is better to be well deserving without praise than to live by the air of undeserved commendation.

  Roger Chamberlain

  Air, Praise, Wells

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• Journalists are divided into two groups: those who live by ethics, and those who don't.

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  Two, Groups, Ethics

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• When I woke up later, I had established all these businesses and we were growing and everything was going well and I was miserable because I was chasing money and not happiness. I decided that day in August that I would quit chasing money and start chasing passion and allow the money to grow around me...I wanted to have passion in my life to show my girls to live by passion.

  Drew Waters

  Girl, Passion, August

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• First thought, best thought. I live by that when I make my own music.

  Arca

  Firsts, My Own

  "Arca's Warped Beauty". Interview with Philip Sherburne, pitchfork.com. November 19, 2015.

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• Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Philosophy, Relevant, Offers

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.13, Stanford University Press

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• I live by two credos: If you don't ask, you don't get. And most things don't work.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Two, Asks, Ifs

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• The Internet is merely a new means of communication, that's all it is. It serves the purpose of getting information, which it is fantastic at. I mean, I live by the Internet in terms of research and it's incredible - there's nothing that you can't find out about. It's not stopped me going to bookshops but I must say that I don't go into as many because any book I want.

  David Bowie

  Book, Communication, Mean

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• For those who live by faith, the cross is a treasure more valuable than gold and precious stones.

  Basil Moreau

  Precious Stones, Gold, Treasure

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• It is not worth the while to live by rich cookery.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Rich, Cookery

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.61, David M Gross

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• I will never conduct a war or start a war because we want to; the United States of America should only go to war because we have to. And if you live by that guidance, you'll never have veterans throwing away their medals or standing up in protest.

  John F. Kerry

  War, America, Want

  "CNN Daybreak", www.cnn.com. January 23, 2004.

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• At this point of time in history, I don't think that women in any work force that's a male-dominated work force have the same rules to play or live by as men do.

  Kari Matchett

  Men, Thinking, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• It is all about confidence: 90% mental and 10% physical, that is what basketball is. I live by that and it seems to be working.

  Michael Redd

  Basketball, Seems

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• [The writer] must essentially draw from life as he sees it, lives it, overhears it or steals it, and the truer the writer, perhaps the bigger the blackguard. He lives by biting the hand that feeds him.

  Charles R. Jackson

  Hands, Biting, Stealing

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• You live by the cake, you die by the cake.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Cake, Dies

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