We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.
~ Leon Battista Alberti
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
~ Wilhelm Reich
Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.
~ John Von Neumann
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
~ Alexander The Great
Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Living according to the basic gospel principles will bring power, strength, and spiritual self-reliance into the lives of all Latter-day Saints.
~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.
~ Charlotte Brontë
A living art of teaching, one that rests on a true understanding of the human being, has a thread of strength running through it that stimulates individual students to participate so that it is not necessary to keep their attention through direct 'individualized' treatment.
~ Rudolf Steiner
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
~ Lois Mcmaster Bujold
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
~ Hannah Arendt
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
~ Euripides
The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.
~ Orlando Gibbons
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
~ W. H. Auden
Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.
~ Annie Lennox
It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
~ Eric Hoffer
I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.
~ Paulo Coelho
The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
~ Wendell Berry
The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.
~ Arlo Guthrie
A compassionate mind is very difficult to cultivate because compassion demands a sense of equality between all living beings.
~ Lobsang Tenzin
Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one.
~ Fred G. Gosman
Just do me a favor. Don't call me 'former teen heartthrob,' okay? It's as if they were constantly discussing your second year of college. I'm not back there anymore. I'm living in the present.
~ David Cassidy
To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle.
~ Arthur Rubinstein
Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
~ Billy Joel
Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth, it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling.
~ Carrie Brownstein
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
~ Samuel Ullman
You just never know when you're living in a golden age.
~ Alexander Payne
We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
~ Fred Allen
The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.
~ Wim Wenders
We are living in a new age of energy supply anxiety.
~ Daniel Yergin
Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.
~ José Ortega Y Gasset
The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment.
~ Marie Kondō
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
~ Thomas Szasz
Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.
~ Richard Bach
Almost every morning when I go to the studio to work, I discover a fresh rose in the bud vase on my dressing table... one living and vital thing in a dusty arena of powder and tissue and matches and greasepaint.
~ Julie Andrews
I'm living in Beverly Hills. I'm very, very lucky. I wake up every morning and I recognize that I'm blessed.
~ Victoria Beckham
Most of the intelligence out there must be artificial intelligence. We keep looking for critters like us living on a planet like ours, where in fact the majority of the intelligence out there is not biological. That would be my argument.
~ Seth Shostak
The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.
~ Herbert Read
