Living Quotes

Whether or not the standard of living made possible by mass production and in turn by mass circulation, is supported by and filled with the work of us hucksters, I guess is something that only history can decide.

I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.

In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book.

As I came to New York, it was for me a new beginning. To discover what people are living here. What do they need, what do they expect, what would they like to be the image and the performance of the New York Philharmonic?

My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance of living a long life like him.

I am fascinated by what is beautiful, strong, healthy, what is living. I seek harmony.

I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude.

There may be the kinds of things that you may find interesting, but then there's also the practical reality of needing to make a living and this is what you have to choose from.

The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.

I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Doesn't the world see the suffering of millions of Palestinians who have been living in exile around the world or in refugee camps for the past 60 years? No state, no home, no identity, no right to work. Doesn't the world see this injustice?

Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia.

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.

And right now I may just be living inside the heart of the body, and I one day hope to move to the brain.

Why are we in this mess, now facing the prospect of economic armageddon? It's because the prevailing characteristic has been greed, and it doesn't matter whether it's individuals living beyond their means or governments living beyond their means or people seeking to get rich quick.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert.

The best gift we can have is living in the present moment and really enjoying it for what it is; and, not being in our heads and getting sidetracked.

Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.

I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.

I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.

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.

I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures.