Living Quotes

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?

Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to die.

I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.

He believes in romance. He isn't merely going through the mechanical movements of a man in an exciting situation. He is, vitally and positively squeezing the last drop of delight from living the best life he knows in the best way he can.

But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.

I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.

And in Canada we, you know, it costs us three or $400 million to have an election. You know, it's always been my position that we shouldn't complain about that; that's the price of admission for a living in a great democracy.

Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living.

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.

If it happens, it happens... We can't stop living.

I try to stay out of the spotlight as much as humanly possible, because I think that when actors, whether or not they've chosen it or it has been thrust upon them, are living very public lives, it affects your ability to get lost in their performances.

Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.

There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

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

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.

You know, I think of the global economy as an inverted triangle, resting on the shoulders of the American consumer. And if the American consumer cannot have enough disposable income in order to maintain a standard of living that creates more opportunities generation after generation, that's bad for everybody.

You know, I eat, I ate pretty well anyway so, I'm basically living the same, I just curtailed the stupidity.

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

I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.

Being a father, well, I don't know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here faster. Get off the clock. Just 'cause the baby is my reason for living, my reason for coming to work.

Besides, it doesn't make any sense to have these characters living in the year 3000 when all their points of reference are from the pop culture of the 80's and the 90's.

The revolution has been dubbed The Orange Revolution, orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko. The demonstrators say they are tired of living under a corrupt government.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

I also like flyfishing - maybe I would have figured a way to make a living out of that?

Texas, to be respected must be polite. Santa Anna living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna dead, would just be another dead Mexican.

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

You never know what a person is going through, regardless of how much money they make or however great a life you think they're living.

It's that TV thing. You can be in the biggest film of the year and it will still not have the kind of impact a TV series has. Once you're in people's living rooms, that's it. There's no hiding place.

It might be arrogant to think that we're the only living creations in all of the solar systems that there are. Space is so vast.