Living Quotes

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.

We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.

I find its attention to living this life rather than the next one exhilarating because I think even independently of Judaism that that's the right way to go about life.

Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another.

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.

In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ.

I've had a lazy career. Sometimes one film a year, sometimes none. I'm walking around in the street and doing this other thing, living, that I'm much more interested in. I just do some acting on the side.

I can't imagine living and not running.

The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

You just want to be able to have a nice career and make a living at it.

When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

Let's face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can't resist.

But when Neil called, I have to say that my heart soared. And the reason was, because it said so much about his recovery... that he was coming back to the world of the living.

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

Living in Maryland, I saw that the opportunities were far greater in California than back home.

My parents not only did it for a living, but they were really good at it.

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

I entertain for a living, and I entertain.

A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.

I dream for a living.

Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.

Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.

The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.