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Shall this fellow live?

– William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 5. Sir Toby, wondering should they let Malvolio live. This is after Malvolio fantasizes about being Olivia’s husband and master of her house with power over all the other servants and even Sir Toby.

“Farewell, sweet lady, dearest Elizabeth, my beloved and only friend; may heaven in its bounty bless and preserve you; may this be the last misfortune that you will ever suffer. Live, and be happy, and make others so.”

– Mary Shelley

Frankenstein, Chapter 8. Justine in her parting words to Elizabeth before being unjustly executed.

It's better to look at the sky than live there - Truman Capote quote

It’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.

– Truman Capote

Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Holly Golightly.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that - J. K. Rowling quote

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.

– J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone in U.S. and India). Albus Dumbledore to Harry Potter in Chapter 2.

Only the blacks could live like this.

– Donald Trump

His former lawyer Michael Cohen claimed he said this while driving through rough neighborhood in Chicago.

I want to live, however briefly, knowing that my life is finite. Mortality gives meaning to human life. Peace, love, friendship. These are precious because we know they cannot endure. A butterfly that lives forever is really not a butterfly at all.

– Lt. Cmdr. Data

Star Trek: Picard, ‘Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2’.

We’re not going to live forever, so we have to make the most of the time we have. I’m getting very saccharine, but you can’t take anything for granted.

– Adam Driver

Jack Kerouac quote about the mad ones

The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

– Jack Kerouac

On The Road. Narrator Sal Paradise in Part One, Chapter 1.

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you - Disney's Winnie the Pooh

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

– Winnie the Pooh

Disney Pictures, inspired by A. A. Milne books.

I miss my parents a lot. I obviously don’t see them loads anyway because they live up north. But knowing that they’re only a couple of hours away is a lot different than knowing that they’re 12 hours away.

– Harry Styles

Everything I’ve done I’ve always kind of jumped in headfirst, and it’s been a learning curve. Even MuchMusic, I had never done live television before, and all of a sudden you show up, and they’re like, ‘You ready kid? Let’s go.’

– Hannah Simone

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

– Herman Melville

In order for critical pedagogy, dialogue, and thought to have real effects, they must advocate the message that all citizens, old and young, are equally entitled, if not equally empowered, to shape the society in which they live.

– Henry Giroux

New York is still where I live most of the time.

– Gerry Mulligan

Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.

– Harry A. Blackmun

It’s very exciting that people could actually live on another planet.

– Helen Sharman

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

– George Dennison Prentice

Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work.

– Gustav Heinemann

My live show is almost like a meditation. An emotional apex – that’s what I want it to feel like.

– Gallant

I’m tired and nervous and I’m in America. Here you don’t know that you live.

– Greta Garbo

What the interconnected age in which we live allows us to do is instantly connect with each other.

– Heather Brooke

Don’t take yourself too seriously! You only live once!

– Harley Viera-Newton

We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.

– Hayao Miyazaki

My tools, my medium, include pictures and live actors.

– Gavin Hood

I can’t live without my dark plum eyeliner. I use liquid because it’s easier on my eyes.

– Heather Morris

You know how a lot of people say they could go crazy? Well, I feel I live very close to that line.

– Hope Davis

When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.

– Harriet Ann Jacobs

Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.

– Guru Nanak

If you live in the countryside, you understand that hunting isn’t just for toffs. It’s for the farmers. It’s for everyone’s enjoyment.

– Honeysuckle Weeks

Most Israelis have a sense, ‘We just don’t want to live in the Middle East anymore. We don’t want it to be the Middle East. Were going to just build a wall or operate unilaterally’ – not try to even use force as used to be the case to convince Arabs to accept Israel by convincing them that Israel is here to stay and then negotiating.

– Ian Lustick

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