Quotes about living

It takes time, or does time take it?

We gave the woman for her trouble a generous fee, with which she was highly pleased, and proceeded to put it in the bed under her sleeping husband's head. We laughingly told her not to put it there as he might get it, and it was money she had earned herself. She appreciated the joke, though it was told mostly by gestures, but seemed to have true ideas of the matrimonial relation, and was nothing loath to trust her all with him. page. 116

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

Writing genetic code like we do software will usher in a completely new way of living for all of us. When this happens, our society will be as fundamentally changed as we have seen from the invention of computers.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

We want to make sure we get living astronauts to the surface of Mars.

It's important to bring things back from the Space Station because, unlike somebody living at the house where the garbage truck comes by twice a week, they don't have that in space.

What will you and I give for Christmas this year? Let us in our lives give to our Lord and Savior the gift of gratitude by living His teachings and following in His footsteps.

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly.

When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree.

Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength.

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.

Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing a presence, a permanence.

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

There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person's lifestyle that really isn't suited to me.

Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.

I love what I do for a living, but the other side, that aspect of being famous or a celebrity's got zero interest to me.

I was very dramatic - very, like, 'It's never going to happen. My life is over at 16 because I'm not already famous. I'm not going to get my record deal. I'm not going to be able to sing for a living.'

The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication.

If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.

My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.

It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.

I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the 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.

My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

I used to ride motorbikes and drive cars like everything was a racetrack it was ridiculous. It wasn't because I thought it was cool it was just because I loved living on the edge. But I've chilled.

Living in New Zealand, it's like a different world - it is a different world. It's very, very cool.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

My son was five months old, and I built a makeshift studio in my living room so that I could do the attachment parenting approach and write the record at the same time. That was fortuitous, that we could build that in the house.

I'm living out my dreams and I love what I do.

I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet.

I'm a big believer in living out your dreams and facing your fears.

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

My first book was called 'Buried Dreams,' about a serial-killer, which was probably about ten years ahead of the serial-killer curve. It was a national bestseller, but it was three years of living in the sewer of this guy's mind.

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

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

Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude.

When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.

Just like any business is a living, breathing thing, an entrepreneur has to be able to adapt over time.

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form - not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

Entire lives aren’t lessons, but there are lessons in lives.

Live a courageous life.

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.

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

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.

The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment.

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.

I'm living in Beverly Hills. I'm very, very lucky. I wake up every morning and I recognize that I'm blessed.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

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

What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.

My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.

A house is a machine for living in.

I enjoy living life and I enjoy going to different restaurants and eating my way through a country and going to different museums and learning about different cultures.

You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.

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.

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.

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.

A high standard of living cannot remain the exclusive possession of the West - and the sooner we can help other peoples to develop their resources, raise their living standards, and strengthen their national independence, the safer the world will be for us all.

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

Women are living independently, but we don't yet have the social and economic policies behind us to support that independence.

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

When I went to school at Emerson, I was completely charmed living there and loved the architecture of the Back Bay.

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

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

We have these weapons of mass destruction on every street corner, and they're called donuts, cheeseburgers, French fries, potato chips, junk food. Our kids are living on a junk food diet.

We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.

The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.

I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.

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.

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.

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

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

Living according to the basic gospel principles will bring power, strength, and spiritual self-reliance into the lives of all Latter-day Saints.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.