Living Quotes

As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.

Gaza has 1.2 million Palestinians living in crowded places and the resistance will be strong.

I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world.

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.

People die because they find living too painful.

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

I think when I was in my early twenties and middle twenties I didn't even know I wasn't living up to my potential. A couple of friends told me I wasn't and told me to get my act together, and it made a huge impact on me.

He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

The sport would not survive today if drivers were being killed at the rate they were in the 1960s and '70s. It would have been taken off the air. It is beamed into people's living rooms on Sunday afternoons, with children watching.

You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.

I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.

It's the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the same life that everybody else is living what's the point?

If you search and search and stop searching, then ultimately you'll find what you need. It is the experience of living.

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

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.

The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.

Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?

You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.

We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty.

I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.

Many of the French follow a Trade with the Indians, living very conveniently for that Interest.

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.

Touring is very grueling. It's very taxing on the body and living out of your suitcase, going from city to city, night after night. It's a tough job.

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.

That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end.

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.