Living Quotes

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.

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.

The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden.

It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His intelligence is far superior to that of any other earthly being.

If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.

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.

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.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

In Asia, a lot of successful economies that had been living on their own saving, decided to open up their financial markets to international capital in the early 1990s. So here were countries doing quite well, but they decided they'd borrow a bit more and do even better.

I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished.