Living Quotes

You could say people are living longer because of the decline in religion. Not many people believe in the hereafter, so they keep going.

What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.

I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.

We are living in a world where everything is based on security.

We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.

Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.

Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.

That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.

Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

When you love food as much as I do, staying healthy is not easy. I mean, moderation, not deprivation. That's my new way of living. I always want more and that's just my life.

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

I've had women who move to the towns I'm living in, just pack up and move there, never even met 'em before, 'cause they heard I lived there.

I made a living being a background singer for years.

The most solitary I ever felt was when I was living in New York. I used to live in Enrico Caruso's old apartment, and I had a special staircase that took me up to the roof. There was nobody up there.

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

You know, everybody has setbacks in their life, and everybody falls short of whatever goals they might set for themselves. That's part of living and coming to terms with who you are as a person.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

I don't need to publish to make a living.

On my return to Cornwall I discovered that I was living in a tropical paradise. For now I am content to explore my own home and our nearest neighbour France.

I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York.

When things don't work well in the bedroom, they don't work well in the living room either.

I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration.

I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them.

Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

I tell you, I'm really not what you'd call into your basic kink, even though we do live in Hollywood, which is a little bit like living in a box of granola.