Living Quotes

It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive!

I rob banks for a living, what do you do?

We are now living in a post-Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse.

I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad.

We didn't have a TV in the living room and all my friends thought we were kind of weird. When they'd come over, my mom wanted to talk to them about current events.

It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to.

At that time, the people that were in the animated film business were mostly guys who were unsuccessful newspaper cartoonists. In other words, their ability to draw living things was practically nil.

A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.

Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.

I'm tired of living in a police state.

I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them.

Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.

No, I mean we'd all definitely involved in the music business someway or another, because we're all living with it, and in it, and also we've got all sorts of things we would like to do.

Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

I try to always have flowers in the house. I have a florist in Chinatown, and they deliver orchids every two weeks. I like living with living things.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

I'm living in the present. I have no ambition. It's true. But I want to live.

Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.

Yes, I always imagined living in other places.

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.