Living Quotes

Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.

Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.

The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong.

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

We can't really make a living doing comic books, despite the fact that would be an awfully fun way to make a living.

There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy.

The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite.

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.

The whole idea of doing the Hollywood thing never even occurred to me. When you grow up on the East coast, Hollywood seems like this fantasy land and you don't think that people can actually make a living there.

The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx.

The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years.

I am always living very good moments.

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.

For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town.

I feel that we are currently living in a world that is similar to late '50s, early '60s kind of world.

I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know.

It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

We all know that China is industrializing at a growth rate of 8 to 10 percent per year. China is on track to pass the U.S. as the largest economy in the world in 20 to 25 years, and China is determined to give its people a chance at this high standard of living that we enjoy.

President Obama is the kind of politician who puts promises on the record, and then calls that the record. But we are four years into this presidency.The issue is not the economy as Barack Obama inherited it, not the economy as he envisions it, but this economy as we are living it.

If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.