Living Quotes

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

I try to always have flowers in the house. I have a florist in Chinatown, and they deliver orchids every two weeks. I like living with living things.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

I'm living in the present. I have no ambition. It's true. But I want to live.

Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.

Yes, I always imagined living in other places.

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.

The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.

You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.

If the Church is a living body united to the same head, governed by the same laws, and pervaded by the same Spirit, it is impossible that one part should be independent of all the rest.

They have had such a crazy life living with me as their dad. Not crazy but different from their friends.

I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party. He spent 10 years in British prisons. In the evening, in our living room, the only subject we used to discuss was politics. So politics was not unfamiliar to me.

The first rule to living in America is 'Stop tap dancing, you fool!'.

To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word.

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

When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'

Now, I'm the only living member of that group. There was the six of us originally and they're now all gone.

You know, this is a business where only 15% make a living wage and only 9% of those are women. But I figured somebody has to be that 15%, somebody's got to be one of those women.

Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.

Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work.

Comrades - We are living in momentous times.

A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.

Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between 1946 and 1965 and if you think you're tired of hearing about us, you should try being one of us.

My goal is to be living back in Canada as soon as I can, hopefully somewhere in the Gulf Islands.