Living Quotes

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.

If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say that he cannot make use of those laws to cover the surface of a small planet with living creatures?

Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.

As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.

At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant.

I've always traveled, as a kid my parents moved me around, a different place in Germany every four years. But I got the travel bug when I was a kid, living in different countries.

I fell far short of living up to the kind of public servant I wanted to be.

I felt like I was living in some sort of video game and people pre-empting every move I made, obviously as a result of accessing my private information.

I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food.

Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.

The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard!

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.

Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.

Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.

The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong.

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

We can't really make a living doing comic books, despite the fact that would be an awfully fun way to make a living.

There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy.

The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite.

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.