Living Quotes And Sayings

Quotes And Sayings About Living

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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 ~


Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
~By Buffalo Bill ~


We are always getting ready to live but never living.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~


I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.
~By M. F. K. Fisher ~


If there's anything worse than a woman living alone, it's a woman saying she likes it.
~By Thelma Ritter ~


The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
~By Malcolm Forbes ~


For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
~By Alexander Solzhenitsyn ~


It took me about eight years to put together the program that I have been living for twenty years.
~By Marilu Henner ~


To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.
~By Peter McWilliams ~


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 ~


There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.
~By Charles Ives ~


Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.
~By Booth Tarkington ~


No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations.
~By Deana Carter ~


This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale.
~By Mark Rothko ~


We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
~By Martha Graham ~


I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.
~By Stephen Evans ~


As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
~By Major Taylor ~


This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it.
~By Jon Bon Jovi ~


Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.
~By Trofim Lysenko ~


Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~


First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence.
~By Phillip E. Johnson ~


Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
~By Roald Dahl ~


In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.
~By Hypatia ~


I do what I did as a hobby as a kid, you know, and make a living at it. And I just feel like I'm one of the luckiest guys in the world 'cuz I get paid to make toys and play with them.
~By Rick Baker ~


The system has for its object an increase of persons that are to intervene between the producer and the consumer, living on the product of the land and labour of others, diminishing the power of the first, and increasing the number of the last.
~By Henry Charles Carey ~


A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.
~By Kenneth Tynan ~


As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.
~By Pythagoras ~


If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate information? Even between different cultures here on Earth, you get into communication problems.
~By Story Musgrave ~


Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
~By Thomas Browne ~


There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted.
~By Nicholas D. Kristof ~


Basically, though, I'm just lucky to love what I do for a living.
~By John Goodman ~


Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
~By Jean de La Fontaine ~


True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
~By Petrarch ~


We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.
~By James L. Farmer, Jr. ~


In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion.
~By John Hume ~


If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.
~By Theodore White ~


Ending up-front fees should make it far easier for all students to go to university as they will no longer have to pay up to /1,125 out of their loans at the start of each year. Student loans will also rise to meet average living costs.
~By Anne Campbell ~


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 ~


If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
~By Fyodor Dostoevsky ~


If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.
~By Romain Rolland ~


It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.
~By Bruce Babbitt ~


I've been living with the minor second all my life and I finally found a way to handle it.
~By Morton Feldman ~


In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.
~By Jose Saramago ~


Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.
~By Nicholas Negroponte ~


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 ~


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 you are a gay couple living in Alabama, you know one thing: your family has no standing under the law; and it can and will be violated by strangers.
~By Andrew Sullivan ~


A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?
~By Jane Wagner ~


The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
~By Annie Dillard ~


There is a high cost for low living.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~


After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
~By Jaclyn Smith ~


When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.
~By Carol Ann Duffy ~


The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.
~By Rupert Sheldrake ~


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 ~


Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.
~By Major Taylor ~


It never ceases to amaze me that I get to do this for a living.
~By Richard Marx ~


Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.
~By David Ogilvy ~


Living in the projects helped me with this role.
~By Joe Pantoliano ~


It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it.
~By David R. Brower ~


So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.
~By Stanley Tucci ~


Being prepared to die is one of the great secrets of living.
~By George Lincoln Rockwell ~


Location work has its charms, and can seem glamorous on the outside, but I think living at home and having the stability of a home life once you've finished work is very underrated!
~By Saffron Burrows ~


Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.
~By Jose Marti ~


I am absolutely delighted to get back into football with Livingston.
~By Kenny Dalglish ~


The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong.
~By Philip Emeagwali ~


I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional.
~By Wentworth Miller ~


Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.
~By Allen Ginsberg ~


We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day.
~By Jim Wallis ~


Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in fact was done in the most ancient times; for, being a spirit clothed with a body, he is one with them.
~By Emanuel Swedenborg ~


If I'm not living from my heart, I get sick.
~By A. J. Langer ~


Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with the reality of California's budget crisis, state workers are going to have to do the same.
~By Jerry Brown ~


I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.
~By Dan Millman ~


Well it's a drastic procedure by your standards and mine, but for the people who are living in desperation perhaps the best way to understand it is that it seems no more drastic to them than circumcision.
~By John Money ~


When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
~By Helen Rowland ~


My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.
~By Missy Elliot ~


I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
~By Jennifer Aniston ~


The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'
~By Tertullian ~


After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
~By Barbara Steele ~


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 ~


I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.
~By Alan Hovhaness ~


The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~


I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.
~By Robert Henri ~


When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor.
~By William H. Macy ~


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 ~


A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.
~By Lance Morrow ~


Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.
~By Thomas Kempis ~


The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams.
~By Steve Winwood ~


I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.
~By Anthony Hopkins ~


There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
~By Wayne Dyer ~


I've seldom seen a horny player walk into a bar and not let out exactly what he did for a living.
~By Johnny Bench ~


People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
~By Florence King ~


The same expertise we learned at the autopsy table can be applied to living people who've been shot, battered, or raped. The search for trace evidence is the same.
~By Michael Baden ~


Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully.
~By Menachem Mendel Schneerson ~


Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.
~By Paul Eldridge ~


Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living.
~By Tracy Kidder ~


There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
~By Johnny Depp ~


I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way.
~By Isabelle Huppert ~


If I was on the cover of Artforum and my photos were selling for lots of money. If I could be doing that I wouldn't be working for porn mags. But I got to make a living. I shoot for them only occasionally now because that business isn't what it used to be.
~By Richard Kern ~


If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
~By Mel Brooks ~


He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
~By Horace ~

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