Living Quotes

I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.

~ Captain Beefheart

Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working. We may not agree with all that North Vietnam is doing, but they are living in peace. I would look for a better human rights record for North Vietnam, but they are living side by side.

~ Sheila Jackson Lee

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

~ Albert Schweitzer

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

~ Bob Marley

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

~ Mark Twain

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

~ Anton Chekhov

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.

~ Terry Pratchett

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

~ William James

We cannot put off living until we are ready.

~ José Ortega Y Gasset

Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow.

~ Tom Wilson

When I see these young girls who are dreaming the dream that I'm living, it's very very exciting and it puts a big smile on my face.

~ Sue Wicks

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

The longer I go about living, I see it's the relationship that is most meaningful.

~ William Shatner

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.

~ Cecil B. Demille

Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

~ Bruce Springsteen

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.

~ Vanessa Redgrave

Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.

~ Daisaku Ikeda

On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.

~ Viggo Mortensen

I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience.

~ F. Sionil José

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

~ E. W. Howe

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.

~ Sarah Bernhardt

Like every art form, there are jealousies and angers and competitiveness in magic. But there's camaraderie among magicians, whether you perform it for a living or you're an enthusiast.

~ Ricky Jay

What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.

~ Harri Holkeri

We are living in very challenging times. Pressured in the workplace and stressed out at home, people are trying to make sense of their lives.

~ Les Brown

I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola.

~ Alan Rickman

The home should be the treasure chest of living.

~ Le Corbusier

How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.

~ Maya Lin

There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale lack of impulse control, all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred at another point in life. In adolescence, they're just part of the behavioral portfolio.

~ Jeffrey Kluger

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

~ Roald Dahl

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

~ David Frost

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

~ Mason Cooley

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

~ Emily Carr

If there's anything worse than a woman living alone, it's a woman saying she likes it.

~ Thelma Ritter

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?

~ Jackie Kennedy

You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.

~ Edouard Manet

You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.

~ Terry Mcmillan

These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they contain. In these alone is proclaimed the doctrine of godliness. Let no man add to these, neither let him take out from these.

~ Athanasius

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.

~ Mary Douglas

Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.

~ Cathy Mcmorris Rodgers