Living Quotes

This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.

I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals.

I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents.

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

Our society has changed in unforeseeable ways since Social Security was created. For example, we are living longer, healthier, and more productive lives and while this is all great news, this has also placed added pressure on America's retirement system.

For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.

Everyone should have a philosophy for living better.

I wouldn't say Malkovich is totally insane, but he's not living in the real world. He's living in his world, which is a fine world to live in apparently.

Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah.

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.

All of a sudden I was living what is perceived to be the model life. It was just full-on, 24 hours a day. It was work all the time. And there's always a party to go to.

My wife taught me the importance of living well.

I think we're living in a world where society is very difficult.

There's a lot of freedom for me living in L.A.

The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.

I want people to understand that I intend to continue living and doing all the things that I love to do up until the end. And the end is by no means rushing up on me.

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.