Living Quotes

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.

Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of economic and financial turmoil such as we are now living through.

Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.

I just wanted to be a guy who could earn a living as an actor, and I did that for a long time.

Even when Darwin's teaching first made its appearance, it became clear at once that its scientific, materialist core, its teaching concerning the evolution of living nature, was antagonistic to the idealism that reigned in biology.

You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.

Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.

Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life.

The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'

It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves.

The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living.

I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.

The more you achieve, the more interest it should spark to go further, because there's so much - and I don't mean monetarily and I don't mean in society. This whole experience of living is so rich!

We shall continue to work for a Middle East that is free of strife and violence, living in harmony without the threat of terrorism or the dangers of weapons of mass destruction.