Living Quotes

The unexamined life is not worth living.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.

I can't complain. I'm making a living out of what I do, which is really rare for a lot of actors. The hard part is staying confident and staying with it.

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

The same expertise we learned at the autopsy table can be applied to living people who've been shot, battered, or raped. The search for trace evidence is the same.

Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?

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

I do what I did as a hobby as a kid, you know, and make a living at it. And I just feel like I'm one of the luckiest guys in the world 'cuz I get paid to make toys and play with them.

So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a hobby.

The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.

I am living and having supernatural experiences. A lot of people get really freaked out about that. I speak in tongues; I've been baptized in the Holy Spirit.

I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. Inc. I'm just living according to the standards of the world.

Where I live in Connecticut was ice a mile above my house, all the way back to the North Pole, about 15 million kilometers, that's a big ice cube. But then it started to melt. We're talking about the floods of our living history.

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.

I think that comedy is one of the more serious things that you can do in our day, especially in the world that we're living in.

We're living in hard times.

You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and feeling for your characters.

For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.

I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.

The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

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

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. 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.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

When I read about how 200 people died on a polar expedition, I wonder why they didn't get to know the Inuit people who were around and presumably know something about surviving in the Arctic after living there for thousands of years. Talking to people is a survival mechanism.

I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.

I like how my body feels when I'm in shape; I love how it feels after I work out each day. Fitting in the clothes I like to wear comfortably and living a healthy lifestyle is important to me.

I like finishing a movie and having this living, breathing thing.

I get a lot of action scripts. I get low-budget vehicles that will end up right on the video shelf. I want to do movies that I want to talk about, that I'm proud of, but I also want to make a living.

In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

Well, I do lie for a living. I'm an actor.

You could say Shakespeare is so extraordinary precisely because he was so ordinary. He had all the usual anxieties and understandings of what it is to have children, lose children, get married, struggle to make a living and so on.

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through enforced austerity or their taxes are used to bail out governments on the other side of the continent.

I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.

I've been acting since second grade, and I just remember when I first moved to New York and I was living in Washington Heights with three other actors in this tiny apartment and busting my butt to get to the subway, walking to, like, five auditions in a day.

You have to have a lot of little boy in you to play baseball for a living.

The world is a living image of God.

Ending up-front fees should make it far easier for all students to go to university as they will no longer have to pay up to /1,125 out of their loans at the start of each year. Student loans will also rise to meet average living costs.

We have a shotgun we inherited from my father-in-law, a paranoid Englishman living in Texas. I have a .22 Marlin rifle, similar to the one Annie Oakley had, and my husband has a .357 Magnum pistol. All those are locked up tight, of course. We have a couple of pellet guns that get more use than the real guns.

I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously.

What really grabs me about living in Tucson is the color beige.

I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?

It's fantastic because I've been living thousands of lives, not only my life.

I don't miss the economic insecurity, the living paycheck to paycheck.

You know, piloting really isn't my hobby. And, it's probably not something I'd do in my spare time if I could do whatever I wanted to do. But, I'll tell you: if you've got to make a living, it's a great way to make a living!

The system has for its object an increase of persons that are to intervene between the producer and the consumer, living on the product of the land and labour of others, diminishing the power of the first, and increasing the number of the last.

I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause.

I'm a hard guy to live with. I'm like a caged animal. I'm up all night walking around the living room. It's hard for me to come down from what I do.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

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.

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

Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

As surely as I am the living God, everyone will kneel before me, and everyone will confess that I am God.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.