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Quotes About Lived

All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered.
~ Kenneth Grahame
Real life is always tragic and those who do not know this have never lived.
~ C.G. Jung
You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time than the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Life is essentially a series of events to be lived through rather than intellectual riddles to be played with and solved.
~ George A. Buttrick
Things were sort of Bohemian in Montmartre - one lived, one painted, one was a painter - all that doesn't mean anything, fundamentally.
~ Marcel Duchamp
I only started driving lessons because of comedy - before that, there's be no need. There was a bus from where I lived to where I worked and I had a very obliging, mobile sister.
~ Sarah Millican
Many of my friends were there at Motown. The studio was only a few blocks from where my dad's home was, where we lived.
~ Aretha Franklin
The war was in Europe, not here. Why all this fuss about where someone was born? Wasn't it where he lived - rather, how he lived - that counted?
~ Kirby Larson
I recognized the tokens of the time, because I had lived through just such another uneasy season, when every day was tainted by the foul breath of a fear that could not be faced forthrightly, yet could not be ignored.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Ethics is lived eschatology. It is, as New Testament scholar George Eldon Ladd put it, "the presence of the future."4
~ J. Richard Middleton
The thing about 'Gilmore Girls' is that it's such a specific voice, and I lived with it for so long before it got on the air It's a very specific rhythm and a very specific banter.
~ Amy Sherman-Palladino
In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.
~ Guy Debord
It's interesting - in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that Armageddon and lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me.
~ Gary Ross
My parents split when I was one-year old and I haven't lived with my father since. He is a creative spirit and has always cherished his independence.
~ Antara Mali
Rather than a cognitive procedure of the intellect alone, Gnostic knowledge is experience, a lived experience of spiritual regeneration. It is a transforming knowledge, whose immediate effect is salvation.
~ Giovanni Filoramo
Anthony Starkweather. An elderly, well preserved gentleman, slenderly built, showing all the signs of a man who has lived clean and has been almost an ascetic.
~ Jack London
I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
~ Barbara Kruger
By and large, the gospel of grace is neither proclaimed, understood, nor lived.
~ Brennan Manning
The cabins radiated permanence and in turn summoned timeless feelings in those who lived and died in them: envy and spite.
~ Colson Whitehead
Larry Kramer's speech is Jewish in the devotion it displays to the messianic conviction that the truth liberates if its precepts are entirely engaged with, and lived.
~ Larry Kramer
In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation.
~ Guy Debord
In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.
~ Guy Debord
The spectacle is a social relation between people that is mediated by an accumulation of images that serve to alienate us from a genuinely lived life. The image is thus an historical mutation of the form of commodity fetishism.
~ Guy Debord
If you're 90 and look good in a mini-skirt, go for it. What is 'age appropriate'? Such nonsense. My mother lived to 106, so what's middle-age? Seventy is the new 50.
~ Loretta Swit