Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.
~By Lucretius ~
I did not feel 'evil' when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.
~By David Ogilvy ~
All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.
~By Raymond Hull ~
I was a little hesitant at taking the job at Atari. I had never programmed for a living and I worried it might get boring (building circuits seemed more fun). But I would probably still be in the video game business.
~By David Crane ~
I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.
~By James Taylor ~
When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
~By Eartha Kitt ~
I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.
~By Ziggy Marley ~
The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
~By Walter Benjamin ~
I am more of a New Yorker than ever and just actually, sometimes I fantasize about living somewhere else, where it's maybe not quite so crowded or stressful, blah, blah, blah and after September 11th, I guess I could just not imagine living anywhere else.
~By Sigourney Weaver ~
Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience.
~By Roland Allen ~
I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living.
~By Christian Bale ~
Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.
~By Alex Rodriguez ~
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
Living in the fishbowl is hard enough without worrying about a Secret Service that can't keep mum.
~By Eleanor Clift ~
I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree.
~By James Douglas ~
I signal with an independent label, Continuum. After that I put out a totally independent record, sold fourteen thousand of them from my basement, bought a house, started raising my kid, made a decent living.
~By Kid Rock ~
People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.
~By Dashiell Hammett ~
Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
You just want to be able to have a nice career and make a living at it.
~By Rafael Palmeiro ~
Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
After living in LA for 8 years, I sort of wanted a change, but there's not much production in New York, which is where I primarily live, so I just sort of drifted over to London.
~By Alex Winter ~
Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people.
~By Matt Groening ~
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
~By e. e. cummings ~
Yoga is an art and science of living.
~By Indra Devi ~
Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute.
~By Dirk Bogarde ~
Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.
~By Ted Hughes ~
It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.
~By Anne Sullivan Macy ~
The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy.
~By Olivia Wilde ~
The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all at the same time.
~By Paul Hawken ~
I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
~By John D. Rockefeller ~
Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.
~By Ethel Merman ~
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
~By Hannah More ~
I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
~By John D. Rockefeller ~
So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.
~By Jackson Browne ~
The most important phase of living with a person is respect for that person as an individual.
~By Millicent Carey McIntosh ~
My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
~By Anais Nin ~
They don't have the edge that I need. I'm not interested in reliving 1988.
~By Sebastian Bach ~
Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
~By Carla Bley ~
I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.
~By Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ~
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
She told fortunes for a living. It's a wacky book and was great fun to write. It is very much a look at what life was like for women in Australia in the 1960's.
~By Colleen McCullough ~
If it happens, it happens... We can't stop living.
~By Walter Reed ~
I come now to tell you for what I am brought here to die, and to give you an account of my faith, which I shall do as in the sight of the living God before whom I am shortly to stand.
~By Donald Cargill ~
I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.
~By Marilyn Monroe ~
My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.
~By Graham Norton ~
To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.
~By Bo Bennett ~
I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.
~By Bill Mauldin ~
We were using the record as a tool to invest money into real estate all through the South, because we were living in an era where the South was changing.
~By Solomon Burke ~
For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.
~By Joan Miro ~
The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.
~By Martin Van Creveld ~
My goal is to be living back in Canada as soon as I can, hopefully somewhere in the Gulf Islands.
~By Nicholas Lea ~
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
~By A. R. Ammons ~
There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.
~By Henry Ford ~
What really grabs me about living in Tucson is the color beige.
~By Max Cannon ~
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
~By Nicolas de Chamfort ~
Certainly other things we can do, we gotta promote after-school employment, give kids an opportunity, raising the minimum wage was part of that, we can't expect that young people are going to feel they can make a living out there for such low wages.
~By Matt Gonzalez ~
Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'.
~By James Martineau ~
Contempt for the world is what allows me to continue living in it.
~By Matthew Lotti ~
Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
~By Harold Pinter ~
The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery.
~By Ernie Pyle ~
Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow.
~By Tom Wilson ~
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
~By Cesare Pavese ~
Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia.
~By W. C. Fields ~
The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
~By Lewis Mumford ~
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
~By Henry James ~
In every living thing there is the desire for love.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.
~By Robert E. Howard ~
To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.
~By Marsha Sinetar ~
The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.
~By Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~
The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.
~By Patricia Richardson ~
I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
~By Wislawa Szymborska ~
I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
There's no point in living in an alternate reality.
~By Jessica Cutler ~
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
~By S. J. Perelman ~
I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.
~By Harry Houdini ~
In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and mental characteristics of men living under the same biological, geographical, and social environment, and as determined by their past.
~By Franz Boas ~
I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames, I'm really into them.
~By Jason Kidd ~
They didn't sell, people just weren't used to the idea of living in apartments.
~By Harry Seidler ~
We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.
~By Joseph Ratzinger ~
I find it hard living in a day and age where people are unwilling to accept who they really are.
~By Matthew Lotti ~
Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
~By Channing Pollock ~
I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame.
~By Wesley Clark ~
We are living longer, and we need to live better.
~By Donna Shalala ~
A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.
~By Lance Morrow ~
The secret of living in peace with all people lies in the art of understanding each one by his own individuality.
~By Friedrich Ludwig Jahn ~
I'm living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay.
~By Portia de Rossi ~
I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.
~By Harry Nilsson ~
Why isn't it natural for people who have lived and worked at something to want to use the knowledge and capacity in a new way, free from the burden of making a living?
~By James Rouse ~
How much more must this be so in my own case for I am conscious not only of the great names and achievements of those who have preceded me, but also of the living presence of many of my masters and teachers.
~By Cecil Frank Powell ~
Everybody needs a way out of that pain. Many people choose drugs and alcohol. Some people obsessively exercise or develop strange dietary habits, which is what I did. At least it got me toward a path of healthier living.
~By Mariel Hemingway ~
Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
~By Walter Benjamin ~
Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.
~By Budd Schulberg ~
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
~By Cecil B. DeMille ~
I was living in Maryland and my first week was dreadful. My first week I actually got into a fight at school.
~By Christina Milian ~
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