Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
My parents not only did it for a living, but they were really good at it.
~By Kiefer Sutherland ~
How many people have a family grave in the backyard? I'm sure I'll end up there, or I'll shrink my head and put it in a glass box in the living room. I'll get more tourists to Graceland that way.
~By Lisa Marie Presley ~
The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.
~By Norman Rockwell ~
I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so.
~By Alexis Korner ~
Maybe when I'm 75 and living in the south of France, after everyone I want to bitch about is already dead, then I may want to talk about my life in Hollywood.
~By Tracey Ullman ~
If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.
~By Barbara Boxer ~
I made some friends who are still friends, and this is the city of my birth. I love living here when there's a reason to, other than just moving here. I still don't like the winters here, but it's an amazing city and I love it.
~By Michael McKean ~
And living in Australia I am relatively well off.
~By Peter Garrett ~
There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
~By John Adams ~
I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people.
~By Bobby Vinton ~
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
~By William James ~
There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.
~By Charles E. Wilson ~
I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theatre, and the fact that I'm able to make a living at it staggers me.
~By Eric Stoltz ~
But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.
~By Robert E. Howard ~
The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.
~By J. G. Holland ~
We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons.
~By Alfred Newman ~
The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.
~By Penelope Leach ~
Government is operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it.
~By Gerry Spence ~
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
~By James A. Baldwin ~
I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.
~By Loretta Young ~
In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
There are still women who are not living their own lives, but living through their men or their children.
~By Kathleen Turner ~
Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.
~By Aeschylus ~
You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs.
~By Bernie Sanders ~
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
~By Alfred Hitchcock ~
Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.
~By Thomas Kempis ~
Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.
~By Andy Warhol ~
The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.
~By Charles R. Swindoll ~
Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?
~By Stephen Ambrose ~
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
We will not allow anyone to perform any terrorist acts inside or from Afghanistan against anyone. We are a free country where Osama is living as a guest. This is the reality and it is up to the world to accept it.
~By Mohammad Rabbani ~
The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
~By Sydney J. Harris ~
Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living.
~By John Agyekum Kufuor ~
I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
~By Barbara Kruger ~
We are living in a different world now. You can see it everywhere in international relations: It was noteworthy that, after his visit to Washington, the Chinese president's next stop was Saudi Arabia.
~By Daniel Yergin ~
All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.
~By Rudy Rucker ~
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 ~
While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.
~By Mattie Stepanek ~
The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.
~By Wim Wenders ~
I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
~By Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~
When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory.
~By Floyd Abrams ~
The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
~By John Calvin ~
You have to have a lot of little boy in you to play baseball for a living.
~By Roy Campanella ~
The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.
~By Adam Baldwin ~
What I really tried to do with Helen was make her show this sad side of her. She was married off at 16, was so young and living in this castle that can't leave because of how she looks, and married to a man she hates and three times her age.
~By Diane Kruger ~
The rubber industry is of much significance to our countries. For millions of our smallholders, the rubber tree is a tree of life, serving as a crucial source of income for earning a living and raising families.
~By Thaksin Shinawatra ~
I have been extremely lucky; I am a person who is currently living with a cancer that is under control.
~By Geraldine Ferraro ~
It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard!
~By Derek Jacobi ~
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
~By Karl Marx ~
How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
~By Robert Browning ~
If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
~By Camille Paglia ~
I'm delighted. I don't know of anybody who had a statue built of them while they were living. It's a great feeling.
~By Al Lopez ~
A house is a machine for living in.
~By Le Corbusier ~
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.
~By Charles Lindbergh ~
Statistics show that many people watch our show from the bedroom. and people you ask into your bedroom have to be more interesting than those you ask into your living room. I kid you not!
~By Jack Paar ~
A nation is the same people living in the same place.
~By James Joyce ~
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
~By Simone de Beauvoir ~
The most important phase of living with a person is respect for that person as an individual.
~By Millicent Carey McIntosh ~
There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy.
~By Franz Schubert ~
I'm in a little bit of a different situation, because working in the business that I do and living in the city that I live in, I haven't had a problem with people who are gay. Since I was 10 I've been working alongside them, and some of my best friends are gay.
~By Jason Bateman ~
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.
~By George Washington ~
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
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 ~
Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
~By Walter Benjamin ~
I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus.
~By Sarah Zettel ~
Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make.
~By Norman Lear ~
What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.
~By Harri Holkeri ~
Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana's shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to not only fishermen who make their living collecting oysters in the Gulf, but also to Louisiana's economy in total.
~By Bobby Jindal ~
There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
~By Douglas William Jerrold ~
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
~By Alan Watts ~
I hate a word like "pets": it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.
~By Elizabeth Jennings ~
I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet.
~By Bobby McFerrin ~
As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.
~By Henry Van Dyke ~
Above all, 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 ~
Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in the cost of living between Canadian cities and American cities was 5 % to the advantage, of course, to the Canadian cities.
~By Leonard Woodcock ~
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~
Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.
~By Bruce Springsteen ~
The desire to move into a bigger house, to avoid living AIDS daily, and a dream to be accepted by a community and school, became possible and a reality with a movie about my life, The Ryan White Story.
~By Ryan White ~
Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.
~By Eileen Caddy ~
I'm blown away by the graphical detail of today's games. I can't imagine that it's going to get any better, but it's just going to continually progress and soon we'll be living in that world.
~By Christian Slater ~
As surely as I am the living God, everyone will kneel before me, and everyone will confess that I am God.
~By Jesus Christ ~
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
~By Euripides ~
Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a living wage within 48 hours.
~By William Vickrey ~
It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.
~By Josh Lucas ~
There's a part of me that wants to be known and make a comfortable living but still be able to go grocery shopping. My overall idea of success is having people I want to work with want to work with me.
~By Lusia Strus ~
While we enjoy the benefits of living in the greatest democracy in the world, we must be ever conscious of the fact that none of the achievements or freedoms enjoyed in America would be possible without the price that has been paid for by our servicemen and women.
~By Mark Kennedy ~
But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.
~By Jeffery Deaver ~
I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.
~By Bai Ling ~
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
~By Joseph Addison ~
For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country.
~By Donnie Yen ~
There's nothing like living a long time to create a depth and soulfulness in your music.
~By Bonnie Raitt ~
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.
~By Anna Nicole Smith ~
If I'm going away for longer than a week I take a suitcase and check it in but I'm good at packing light and quick - years of modelling, travelling and living out of a suitcase has trained me well.
~By Lisa Snowdon ~
His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day.
~By Mary Antin ~
Living in America, I became aware of many issues and went through a period of politicization.
~By Julie Christie ~
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