Living Quotes

The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.

My childhood beliefs became so much a part of me that even today I find myself automatically living by a personal standard of conduct which can only be explained as resulting from my religious training.

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same.

I'm still strong and in the best shape to continue living my life.

There's no way that I could be the president. You can't have a pacifist in the White House... I'm an actor. This is what I do for a living.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

I asked myself, 'What are you going to do with your life? Are you going to be like everyone else or are you going to do what's right?' I just made a decision. I said, 'It's time to grow up. It's time to start living for the Lord, do things the right way.' I accepted the Lord, and it changed my life.

Living off the grid and being kind of an outlaw brings a dangerous reality.

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.

Zippy is living in the moment.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

I am sick of living out of a suitcase.

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

I was turning 20 during my first record. Those decade birthdays always kind of cause me, it seems, to reflect, look back, and then look forward. I just was closing this period of my life where I was living in a car and scrambling my whole life to then signing a six-record deal with Atlantic.

Why are we in this mess, now facing the prospect of economic armageddon? It's because the prevailing characteristic has been greed, and it doesn't matter whether it's individuals living beyond their means or governments living beyond their means or people seeking to get rich quick.

In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

This is what I do for a living. It's not who I am as a human being.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way that our lives communicate the character of God.

I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

Chocolate is not cheating! After a salty meal, you need a little bit of sweet. This is living, not cheating.

Basically, though, I'm just lucky to love what I do for a living.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.

I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.