Living Quotes

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.

February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II.

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.

Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in the cost of living between Canadian cities and American cities was 5 % to the advantage, of course, to the Canadian cities.

No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.

I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

We recorded several of Kenny's songs in the living room of my home.

Although I'm living in California, I'm very proud to be British.

Unless they have disabilities to cope with, no family should get more from living on benefits than the average family gets from going out to work. No more open-ended chequebook.

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people.

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

A generation ago, or two, when there were three channels, plus PBS, and when you needed - when you needed 15 million people to make a living, the media could focus on the broad country. And most people had no choice about getting political information. It was there at 6:30 whether you wanted it or not.

In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.

We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all at the same time.

Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World.

The rubber industry is of much significance to our countries. For millions of our smallholders, the rubber tree is a tree of life, serving as a crucial source of income for earning a living and raising families.

Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived, but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.

The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.

I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.