300 Quotes on Living

• Self-improvement is not a staircase; it's a dance--celebrate every misstep as a message written in progress.

  Author: Emma Carlisle

• We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid.

  Author: Norma Jeane - Marilyn Monroe

• Embracing the empty spaces teaches us that the fewer choices we make, the clearer our path becomes in the vibrant simplicity of our true desires.

  Author: Eliana Wan

• Simplify not just your belongings, but also your choices, laughter fills space when excess flees.

  Author: Eliana Fox

• Every meticulously crafted dish invites the soul to feast; when we plate our passion, flavor meets artistry in a dance of creation.

  Author: Delia Voss

• To live a good life is to embrace wonder in the mundane; it is within nature’s subtle rhythms that joys are crafters of our spirits.

  Author: Elara Wynn

• To savor a good life is to weave moments full of adventure, for joy dances best in the company of anything unexplored.

  Author: Naomi Rivers

• Unity is not just a concept, it's a way of living that sustains our humanity.

  Author: Maya Angelou

• Life is not meant to be understood but to be lived with curiosity and wonder.

  Author: Amelia Turner

• It takes courage to stand out in a sea of conformity, but the reward is a life truly lived.

  Author: Brene Brown

• Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.

  Author: Stefan Zweig

• Let us hope that for many it does mean the end of trouble so far as earning a livelihood is concerned, that it means happy and comfortable home living honestly earned. But there are other troubles ahead for her, and plenty of hard work.

  Author: Florenz Ziegfeld

• I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus.

  Author: Sarah Zettel

• If my mother knew I did this for a living, she'd kill me. She thinks I'm selling dope.

  Author: Henny Youngman

• The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.

  Author: Owen Young

• I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.

  Author: Loretta Young

• If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

  Author: Andrew Young

• Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea.

  Author: Francis Yockey

• At the end of the film Val suggests there may be a way to rejoin the living, when he says, 'Let's see if we're able to live among the living, walk among the living.'

  Author: Dwight Yoakam

• We are living in a new age of energy supply anxiety.

  Author: Daniel Yergin

• We are living in a different world now. You can see it everywhere in international relations: It was noteworthy that, after his visit to Washington, the Chinese president's next stop was Saudi Arabia.

  Author: Daniel Yergin

• For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country.

  Author: Donnie Yen

• Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

  Author: William Yeats

• Gaza has 1.2 million Palestinians living in crowded places and the resistance will be strong.

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• I think it turned the whole sport around. It got everybody's attention. People who were watching TV live were jumping up and down in their living rooms.

  Author: Cale Yarborough

• At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant.

  Author: Martin Yan

• The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.

  Author: Minoru Yamasaki

• Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

  Author: Xenophon

• Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.

  Author: Steve Wynn

• I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture.

  Author: Peter Wright

• We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty.

  Author: Jeremiah Wright

• Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.

  Author: William Wordsworth

• I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.

  Author: Tiger Woods

• Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in the cost of living between Canadian cities and American cities was 5 % to the advantage, of course, to the Canadian cities.

  Author: Leonard Woodcock

• And so we said to General Motors that the solution had to be a first year increase, which had to be sizeable because we bad to catch up with the lost position as against the cost of living and we had to make some progress.

  Author: Leonard Woodcock

• Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost of living factor which is fed in by the operation of the escalator.

  Author: Leonard Woodcock

• We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.

  Author: James Wolfensohn

• All of those art-based fields are similar in that they're all hard to make a living in and they all require an intense amount of training and discipline.

  Author: Alicia Witt

• The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams.

  Author: Steve Winwood

• After living in LA for 8 years, I sort of wanted a change, but there's not much production in New York, which is where I primarily live, so I just sort of drifted over to London.

  Author: Alex Winter

• I'd also say having Jack's son Chris living with us from his 13th year on helped in raising Rick.

  Author: Marie Windsor

• I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years.

  Author: Terri Windling

• You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow.

  Author: Tom Wilson

• The H-1B visa program which helps sustain our rapidly growing economy and also helps meet the health care needs of families living in rural New Mexico.

  Author: Heather Wilson

• The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

  Author: Flip Wilson

• I had 3 brothers, 2 died early, and one of them was living a good long time.

  Author: Edith Wilson

• They don't know they're living in a glass house.

  Author: Douglas Wilson

• If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices, progress for them is terribly slow, and they become impatient and dissatisfied.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is sound and must be preserved.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• That it is logical, fair and reasonable to maintain the purchasing power of an hour's work in terms of goods and services the employee must purchase in his daily living.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both faiths have at their heart the living image of a community raised up by God's call to reveal to the world what God's purpose is for humanity.

  Author: Rowan Williams

• Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way that our lives communicate the character of God.

  Author: Rowan Williams

• People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

  Author: Robin Williams

• I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.

  Author: Mary Williams

• It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say.

  Author: Lucinda Williams

• Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.

  Author: Carey Williams

• A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "lifestyles" turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.

  Author: George Will

• If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.

  Author: George Will

• Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to die.

  Author: David Wilkerson

• Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century.

  Author: Andrew Wiles

• There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

  Author: Thornton Wilder

• Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy.

  Author: Olivia Wilde

• Theater is not to make a living, so I don't have the money pressure.

  Author: Dianne Wiest

• 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.

  Author: Sue Wicks

• If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

  Author: Theodore White

• For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together.

  Author: Margaret Wheatley

• I also wanted Parker to operate in the Internet age without losing being Parker. He's always operated in the world without really being with the world, and cyberspace means that the rest of us are more and more living the same way.

  Author: Donald Westlake

• One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.

  Author: Morris West

• Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.

  Author: Mary Wesley

• 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.

  Author: Wim Wenders

• We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

  Author: H. Wells

• The stone which Jacob consecrated at Bethel the generation of the living continues to anoint, paying the tithes which of old he vowed to the house of God there.

  Author: Julius Wellhausen

• It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.

  Author: William Weld

• I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

  Author: Rachel Weisz

• Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

  Author: Frank Wedekind

• It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.

  Author: Daniel Webster

• I am more of a New Yorker than ever and just actually, sometimes I fantasize about living somewhere else, where it's maybe not quite so crowded or stressful, blah, blah, blah and after September 11th, I guess I could just not imagine living anywhere else.

  Author: Sigourney Weaver

• No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

  Author: Alan Watts

• No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

  Author: Alan Watts

• What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.

  Author: Alan Watts

• I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.

  Author: Sam Waterston

• I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.

  Author: Ethel Waters

• I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.

  Author: George Washington

• Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

  Author: Andy Warhol

• Lately, I can't shake the feeling that I've been living a dream for the last 10 years or so; I can't account for most of my 20s, and I have to continually remind myself that certain people are dead now and many of my friends have children.

  Author: Chris Ware

• As an actor, it's fun to play guys who aren't just locked into a male pattern, but a lot of guys you're asked to play are fairly macho and have a certain rigid standard they're living by.

  Author: Fred Ward

• You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living.

  Author: Zack Wamp

• Some movie I was in, I forget which one, some awful little movie, a reviewer said, What is Jessica Walter doing in this movie? And I said, Hello? Trying to make a living?

  Author: Jessica Walter

• I suppose when I was a kid, and I went to movies, and later went to some plays on my own when I got a little older, in New Orleans, where I was living then, I zeroed in on the actor.

  Author: Ray Walston

• The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'

  Author: Neale Walsch

• We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day.

  Author: Jim Wallis

• I went into rehab December 14th, 1996, and got out eight months later? Then I went into a sober living place where I stayed for three months. I've been clean for a good year and a half.

  Author: Marc Wallice

• You know, this is a business where only 15% make a living wage and only 9% of those are women. But I figured somebody has to be that 15%, somebody's got to be one of those women.

  Author: Marcia Wallace

• The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.

  Author: Christopher Walken

• And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.

  Author: George Wald

• I am living in Norway, where I am under the care of the best cancer doctor in Norway and I can be closer to my family.

  Author: Grete Waitz

• A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

  Author: Jane Wagner

• Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

  Author: Kurt Vonnegut

• To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

  Author: Voltaire

• We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

  Author: Voltaire

• You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.

  Author: A. Vogt

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

  Author: Don Vliet

• Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.

  Author: Swami Vivekananda

• I'm living the American dream.

  Author: Dick Vitale

• I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people.

  Author: Bobby Vinton

• Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.

  Author: Gore Vidal

• They look outside the windows of their apartment in town and realize they're not living in a terrace anymore. This is a room full of dreamers who like to go to London for a day.

  Author: Johnny Vegas

• I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.

  Author: Suzanne Vega

• My childhood beliefs became so much a part of me that even today I find myself automatically living by a personal standard of conduct which can only be explained as resulting from my religious training.

  Author: Robert Vaughn

• But between sets I'd sneak over to the black places to hear blues musicians. It got to the point where I was making my living at white clubs and having my fun at the other places.

  Author: Stevie Vaughan

• I'm living my dream right now. I get to make music, perform and travel.

  Author: Ville Valo

• The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

  Author: Peter Ustinov

• Because of the need to remove all modernism, we stayed in the middle of nowhere all day long, living out of tents. It was cold. It definitely set the scene.

  Author: Skeet Ulrich

• 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.

  Author: Samuel Ullman

• Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights.

  Author: Walter Ulbricht

• Let's face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can't resist.

  Author: Bob Uecker

• It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it.

  Author: Mark Udall

• A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.

  Author: Kenneth Tynan

• I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns.

  Author: Anne Tyler

• Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.

  Author: Paul Twitchell

• There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth.

  Author: Paul Twitchell

• All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I've achieved since then is above and beyond.

  Author: Shania Twain

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

  Author: Mark Twain

• There are still women who are not living their own lives, but living through their men or their children.

  Author: Kathleen Turner

• I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted.

  Author: Christy Turlington

• What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.

  Author: Christy Turlington

• I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.

  Author: David Tudor

• I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.

  Author: Tanya Tucker

• So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.

  Author: Stanley Tucci

• Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living.

  Author: Paul Tsongas

• I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.

  Author: Donald Trump

• The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.

  Author: Dalton Trumbo

• 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.

  Author: Pierre Trudeau

• A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.

  Author: Robert Trout

• There are many who are living far below their possibilities because they are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do you want to be a power I the world? Then be yourself.

  Author: Ralph Trine

• We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.

  Author: Lionel Trilling

• I did it for a living, made a career out of it, but now I've turned it into somewhat of a hobby.

  Author: Dick Trickle

• Living in Dallas, I root for the Mavericks and the Stars and the Cowboys, but I've always pulled for the Chicago Cubs. I enjoy watching them play.

  Author: Lee Trevino

• I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.

  Author: John Travolta

• But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.

  Author: Polly Toynbee

• One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives.

  Author: Polly Toynbee

• It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.

  Author: Clyde Tombaugh

• After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now?

  Author: Ernst Toller

• Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.

  Author: Alexis Tocqueville

• I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when I'm contemplating a chair. They are different... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object.

  Author: Meg Tilly

• I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.

  Author: Gene Tierney

• Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not.

  Author: Howard Thurman

• Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.

  Author: John Thorn

• A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World.

  Author: William Thompson

• I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living. I bought a house and put my wife and three children through college. Now that diversion is over so I can finally paint full time.

  Author: Mike Thompson

• I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.

  Author: Emma Thompson

• I'm Andrea Thompson, and unless you've been living in a cave, you probably already know that.

  Author: Andrea Thompson

• But still as compared to many, many orchestras in the world, I think you find a lot more new music and living composers on our programs than many other places.

  Author: Michael Thomas

• The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living composers and gradually that was part of the process of getting the audience really to trust me.

  Author: Michael Thomas

• Living with these teenage boys allowed me to see how much their psyches were like their girl counterparts. They were more familiar to me than I would have thought.

  Author: Marlo Thomas

• There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.

  Author: Helen Thomas

• It was the closest to purgatory that I've ever experienced while I've been living.

  Author: Dave Thomas

• Rugby is great. The players don't wear helmets or padding; they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that.

  Author: Joe Theismann

• Soon after I was born, my parents moved to the South Florida area, and I've lived here ever since (with a few years of living in both Portugal and Brazil in my younger days).

  Author: Joe Tex

• The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'

  Author: Tertullian

• Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia.

  Author: Noah Taylor

• I certainly want to get back to the U.S. to play. It's such a big country. I've always liked playing there, and enjoyed living there. I lived in New York, LA, and Florida.

  Author: Mick Taylor

• I would like to cite an instance which proves the efficacy of clean living on the part of an athlete coupled with the inspiration received from a champion which go a long way to making a champion.

  Author: Major Taylor

• I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.

  Author: Major Taylor

• Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.

  Author: Major Taylor

• As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.

  Author: Major Taylor

• I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.

  Author: James Taylor

• I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

  Author: Elizabeth Taylor

• With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.

  Author: Gay Talese

• Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living.

  Author: David Talbot

• Most Sunday magazines, with the New York Times as an exception, are kind of sleepy, weekend service vehicles to move living room products.

  Author: David Talbot

• I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.

  Author: Wislawa Szymborska

• Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too.

  Author: Max Sydow

• A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

  Author: Charles Swindoll

• Creativity is much better when it's free. Someone can take it and sell it if that's what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a label. If you could make your music and just give it away and somehow make a living - that would be the best scenario.

  Author: Matthew Sweet

• He helped make Living Things even more crazy than I wanted it to be. He added old-fashioned piano and classical folk music - that weird otherworldly vibe - all these elements got onto the record.

  Author: Matthew Sweet

• Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in fact was done in the most ancient times; for, being a spirit clothed with a body, he is one with them.

  Author: Emanuel Swedenborg

• Tone has the living soul.

  Author: Shinichi Suzuki

• But I think the possibility of a black and white society feeding each other's expertises, living harmoniously, will probably go along in fits and starts now but at least it has a great constitution now to back it up.

  Author: Janet Suzman

• My parents not only did it for a living, but they were really good at it.

  Author: Kiefer Sutherland

• They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do.

  Author: George Sutherland

• Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work.

  Author: William Sumner

• The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house.

  Author: William Sumner

• If you are a gay couple living in Alabama, you know one thing: your family has no standing under the law; and it can and will be violated by strangers.

  Author: Andrew Sullivan

• There's a part of me that wants to be known and make a comfortable living but still be able to go grocery shopping. My overall idea of success is having people I want to work with want to work with me.

  Author: Lusia Strus

• I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food.

  Author: Erich Stroheim

• Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

  Author: Igor Stravinsky

• Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.

  Author: Paul Strand

• A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

  Author: Harriet Stowe

• I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theatre, and the fact that I'm able to make a living at it staggers me.

  Author: Eric Stoltz

• If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.

  Author: Sting

• God forbid if David Crosby gets sick again and I can't tour anymore, or something happens where I can't get around, what am I going to live on? I'm going to be living on mechanicals. So I don't want to hear it.

  Author: Stephen Stills

• The first rule to living in America is 'Stop tap dancing, you fool!'.

  Author: Ryan Stiles

• High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.

  Author: David Stiers

• I tell you, I'm really not what you'd call into your basic kink, even though we do live in Hollywood, which is a little bit like living in a box of granola.

  Author: McLean Stevenson

• Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.

  Author: Casey Stengel

• The whole idea of doing the Hollywood thing never even occurred to me. When you grow up on the East coast, Hollywood seems like this fantasy land and you don't think that people can actually make a living there.

  Author: David Steinberg

• 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.

  Author: Gertrude Stein

• Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.

  Author: Gertrude Stein

• Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'.

  Author: Edith Stein

• After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.

  Author: Barbara Steele

• These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we're living day to day.

  Author: Steven Squyres

• One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while.

  Author: Mark Spitz

• I dream for a living.

  Author: Steven Spielberg

• A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

  Author: Herbert Spencer

• Government is operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it.

  Author: Gerry Spence

• Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people.

  Author: Boris Spassky

• I went into acting because I had to make a good living. I had a child now and I had to support him any way I could... I wasn't happy, but I wasn't unhappy. I was just doing what I had to do to survive.

  Author: David Soul

• For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

  Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn

• Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

  Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn

• Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

  Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn

• For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

  Author: Alexander Solzehnitsyn

• Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.

  Author: Frederick Soddy

• It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

  Author: Socrates

• If I'm going away for longer than a week I take a suitcase and check it in but I'm good at packing light and quick - years of modelling, travelling and living out of a suitcase has trained me well.

  Author: Lisa Snowdon

• No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple as often to be dubbed a fool.

  Author: Thomas Smith

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

  Author: Robert Smith

• I'm tired of living in a police state.

  Author: L. Smith

• So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.

  Author: Ed Smith

• Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.

  Author: Barbara Smith

• Living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.

  Author: Anna Smith

• I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.

  Author: Agnes Smedley

• Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!

  Author: Agnes Smedley

• I'm blown away by the graphical detail of today's games. I can't imagine that it's going to get any better, but it's just going to continually progress and soon we'll be living in that world.

  Author: Christian Slater

• Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.

  Author: Matthew Simpson

• Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls.

  Author: Carly Simon

• On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.

  Author: Ignazio Silone

• I can remember at college, living on 30-cent meals.

  Author: Sargent Shriver

• I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world.

  Author: Bobby Short

• Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood.

  Author: Pauly Shore

• I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

  Author: Michelle Shocked

• I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn't pay the bill either, but it was cheaper.

  Author: Allan Sherman

• In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.

  Author: Allan Sherman

• You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

  Author: Sam Shepard

• The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.

  Author: Rupert Sheldrake

• There's no way that I could be the president. You can't have a pacifist in the White House... I'm an actor. This is what I do for a living.

  Author: Martin Sheen

• It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living by the fundamental creed of the Catholic Church, which is service to others and finding God in ourselves and then seeing God in everyone - including our enemies.

  Author: Martin Sheen

• If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

  Author: Gail Sheehy

• I was living in Woodstock for a long time, and I thought, I got to get out of here, man.

  Author: Jules Shear

• I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.

  Author: Wallace Shawn

• I like being on the road, living in hotels. While I've got a real nice house, I go crazy when I'm there.

  Author: Tommy Shaw

• You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.

  Author: Irwin Shaw

• Working gets in the way of living.

  Author: Omar Sharif

• No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in Berlin where you find parents living on the eastern side and their children in the western side.

  Author: Silvan Shalom

• We are living longer, and we need to live better.

  Author: Donna Shalala

• I'll probably be punished for hard living.

  Author: Tupac Shakur

• 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.

  Author: William Shakespeare

• When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

  Author: Ben Shahn

• But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.

  Author: Ted Shackelford

• The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx.

  Author: Jose Serrano

• Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

  Author: Lucius Seneca

• Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

  Author: Lucius Seneca

• They didn't sell, people just weren't used to the idea of living in apartments.

  Author: Harry Seidler

• Everyone should have a philosophy for living better.

  Author: Compay Segundo

• I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.

  Author: Giorgos Seferis

• Just do the math. In the next 50 to 75 years, people will be living to be 130 and 140. They'll be working until they're 100. It's incredible.

  Author: Willard Scott

• The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.

  Author: Robert Scott

• Watching Jaws just scared the living daylights out of me when I was young. I know a lot of people my age who are still petrified of sharks because of that film.

  Author: Ashley Scott

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

  Author: Albert Schweitzer

• Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

  Author: Albert Schweitzer

• Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.

  Author: Morrie Schwartz

• Last year, I was proud to be an original co-sponsor of legislation that would increase federal judges' salaries by more than 40 percent. It also built in a cost of living adjustment, so the Judicial Branch would not be dependent on the Legislative Branch for increases each year.

  Author: Debbie Schultz

• Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.

  Author: Budd Schulberg

• There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy.

  Author: Franz Schubert

• If the search engines don't respect the creators, there won't be anything to search in the future because creators have to make a living too.

  Author: Patricia Schroeder

• Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully.

  Author: Menachem Schneerson

• But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.

  Author: Jack Schmitt

• Make a living will. Talk about it. Death is going to happen to everybody. Write it down. Even if you write it on a piece of paper at home and have your family witness it, you need to write it down.

  Author: Michael Schiavo

• The revolution has been dubbed The Orange Revolution, orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko. The demonstrators say they are tired of living under a corrupt government.

  Author: Bob Schaffer

• The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.

  Author: Philip Schaff

• Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves.

  Author: Francis Schaeffer

• If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.

  Author: Antonin Scalia

• I'm living with two guys. I'm living with a slob and a guy who sleeps all day.

  Author: Devon Sawa

• Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.

  Author: Jean Savarin

• Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.

  Author: May Sarton

• In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

  Author: Jose Saramago

• Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

  Author: Carlos Santana

• And indeed this theme has been at the centre of all my research since 1943, both because of its intrinsic fascination and my conviction that a knowledge of sequences could contribute much to our understanding of living matter.

  Author: Frederick Sanger

• Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy.

  Author: Adam Sandler

• I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.

  Author: Carl Sandburg

• I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films.

  Author: Walter Salles

• He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

  Author: Antoine Saint-Exupery

• Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.

  Author: Buffy Sainte-Marie

• In Asia, a lot of successful economies that had been living on their own saving, decided to open up their financial markets to international capital in the early 1990s. So here were countries doing quite well, but they decided they'd borrow a bit more and do even better.

  Author: Jeffrey Sachs

• At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it.

  Author: Fred Saberhagen

• Money doesn't matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn't make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don't have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level.

  Author: Winona Ryder

• The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.

  Author: Meg Ryan

• I get to pretend I'm flying into space, and hang out with my friends. That's what I do for a living.

  Author: Jeri Ryan

• It might be arrogant to think that we're the only living creations in all of the solar systems that there are. Space is so vast.

  Author: Jeri Ryan

• It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His intelligence is far superior to that of any other earthly being.

  Author: Joseph Rutherford

• After that I couldn't show my face outside. I lost my identity and balance. I was still living with my parents, and they were my only friends. For so many people, this thing with the nurse was confirmation that I must be mad or mentally ill.

  Author: Mathias Rust

• The Temple will not be completed until every living stone is there. And then what? The next thing will be that which our Masonic friends make so much of, and which we make so much of namely: the glorification of the temple.

  Author: Charles Russell

• I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

  Author: Bertrand Russell

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