Living Quotes

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.

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

Finally, the ecological health of the Mississippi River and its economic importance to the many people that make their living or seek their recreation is based on a healthy river system.

I do find myself drawn more to pieces that I feel are wrestling with the way that we're living now, what we're all going through.

For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.

It's a paradox to be an actress, living in the city, taking planes all the time, trying to find the right balance in this life, which is not so eco-friendly, and still try to respect the environment.

I think that the status that you have in life should be reflected in official documents. If you are married, fine, if you are living with someone, fine, if you are single, fine. We don't want to tell people how to live their lives.

Watching Jaws just scared the living daylights out of me when I was young. I know a lot of people my age who are still petrified of sharks because of that film.

I'm looking for a way out of here. I can't have it physically, so I'm going to have it intellectually. It was a beautiful thing to ride Seabiscuit in my imagination. And it's just fantastic to be there alongside Louie as he's breaking the NCAA mile record. People at these vigorous moments in their lives - it's my way of living vicariously.

It never ceases to amaze me that I get to do this for a living.

Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia.

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.

I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?

I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.

I don't think you go out of style when you're living in the present most of the time. And I think that is what I do.

A friend of mine had this great theory about the Teletubbies, that it's preparing us for being mindless. And getting us ready for living in an underground world. That's why the scenery is so flat.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

To me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed.

And living in Australia I am relatively well off.