Living Quotes - page 25

The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them. (Claude Bernard)
As for history, we are living in its ruins. And as for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the decisions ever made in them. I tend not to read them for pleasure. It‘s not unlike carefully scrutinizing the map when one has already reached the destination. View quote
Scott Lynch
The story of the labor movement needs to be taught in every school in this land... America is a living testimonial to what free men and women, organized in free democratic trade unions can do to make a better life ... we ought to be proud of it! View quote
Hubert Humphrey
We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world. View quote
Neil Gaiman
What came for them? Not death. Just the end of living. View quote
Arundhati Roy
The focus of all life is its economy, the mode through which every living creature produces its material existence. I know no other criterion for the evaluation of social life except that of social economy. In society, just like anywhere else, the mode of production is the focus around which revolve all the modes of life: in the historical life of conscious beings, it is also the focus of all modes of consciousness. View quote
Moses Hess
In no sense other than an utterly trivial one is reproduction the inverse of chemical disintegration. It is a misunderstanding of genetics to suppose that reproduction is only 'intended' to make facsimiles, for parasexual processes of genetical exchange are to be found in the simplest living things. View quote
Peter Medawar
If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise? Truth will never start out popular in a world more concerned with marketability than righteousness. It will initially suffer ridicule and even violence - yet ultimately it is undeniable. All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences. View quote
Lauryn Hill
That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in. View quote
Lauryn Hill
In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and precious. ... The first time she saw a white person my grandmother was in her thirties: she thought this person's skin had burned off. View quote
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times. (Nora Ephron)
The width of a line may present the idea of infinity. An epigram may contain a world. In the same way, a small picture format may be much more living, much more leavening, stirring, awakening, than square yards of wall space. View quote
Hans Hofmann
The product of movement and counter-movement is tension. When tension - working strength - is expressed, it endows the work of art with the living effect of coordinated, though opposing, forces. View quote
Hans Hofmann
Perhaps I'm hiding from myself. Perhaps I don't want to be what I'm supposed to be. Or perhaps I don't want to keep living the life I already started to live. View quote
Orson Scott Card
I've learned that memories can have a physical, almost living presence. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. View quote
Anaïs Nin
Living with kids is like living in a frat house... everything's broken, nobody sleeps, and there's alot of throwing up. View quote
Ray Romano
Without the Way, there is no going, Without the Truth, there is no knowing, Without the Life, there is no living. View quote
Thomas à Kempis
The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine. View quote
Theodore Kaczynski
If you search within your heart, you will find something there that will make it possible for you to understand: a spark of disenchantment and discontent, which if fanned into flame will become a raging forest fire that will burn up the whole of the illusory world you are living in, thereby unveiling to your wondering eyes the kingdom that you have always lived in unsuspectingly. View quote
Anthony de Mello
Among the idle rich, boredom is one of the most common causes of unhappiness. People who have difficulty in earning their living may suffer greatly, but they are not bored. Wealthy men and women become bored when they depend upon the theater for their enjoyment instead of making their own lives interesting. (André Maurois)
Vain the ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind. View quote
John Webster
We have a situation where we have our inner cities, African- Americans, Hispanics are living in hell because it's so dangerous. You walk down the street, you get shot. View quote
Donald Trump
I don't want to get involved in the racial situation at the expense of losing fans. I wouldn't say anything too strong but I do know that God created us equal and we're not living up to it. View quote
Jayne Mansfield
I've been identified with pink throughout my career, but I'm not as crazy about it as I've led people to believe. My favorite colors are actually neutrals-black and white-but then who thinks of a movie queen in black and white? Everything has to be in living color. View quote
Jayne Mansfield