Living Quotes

Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience.

Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living.

The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.

You're either living or you're dead.

People that I'm most attracted to, they're not living by any sort of rules. They're the kind of people with stories to tell.

I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, 'OK, this is what I'm going to do for a living and I'm going to be Weird Al.'

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

I'm a kid for a living: I get to play the piano for a living.

I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.

But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

They might have a long way to go before truly accepting gay people into their lives, but they have accepted the show into their living rooms each and every week.

No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

But I was feeling quite down at the time. I was living in L.A., which was kind of weird for me.

I've been living with the minor second all my life and I finally found a way to handle it.

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.

Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.

That's easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.

The best theatre I've done, I've done right here in this living room.

I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.

In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natural for anyone who's just embraced Islam - or any religion - as a convert. It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.

I remember lying on the floor of the living room with headphones on when I was four or five years old, listening to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.

We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.