Living Quotes - page 34

You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect. Yet not only can you know more than him about the world, you also can have a deeper understanding of how everything works. Such is the privilege of living after Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Planck, Watson, Crick and their colleagues. (Richard Dawkins)
The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver. It is truly one of the things that make life worth living and it does so, if anything, more effectively if it convinces us that the time we have for living is quite finite. View quote
Richard Dawkins
So living Nature, not dull Art, Shall plan my ways and rule my heart. View quote
John Henry Newman
History never looks like history when you are living through it. View quote
John W. Gardner
The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare and precarious, that we have no God-given right to destroy our inheritance, but must always patiently submit to the voice of order, and set an example of orderly living. View quote
Roger Scruton
Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future. View quote
Eric Berne
Depend upon it, as long as the church is living so much like the world, we cannot expect our children to be brought into the fold. View quote
Dwight L. Moody
To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind of living burial. It is to immure him in emptiness. View quote
George Steiner
Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. View quote
Mary Oliver
The grim shape; Towered up between me and the stars, and still, For so it seemed, with purpose of its own; And measured motion like a living thing, Strode after me. View quote
William Wordsworth
Outside his own ever-narrowing field of specialization, a scientist is a layman. What members of an academy of science have in common is a certain form of semiparasitic living. (Erwin Chargaff)
Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes. View quote
Jack London
He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive. View quote
Jack London
And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world. View quote
Anne Frank
If farmers become weak the country looses self-reliance but if they are strong, freedom also becomes strong. If we do not maintain our progress in agriculture, poverty cannot be eliminated from India. But our biggest poverty alleviation programme is to improve the living standard of our farmers. The thrust of our poverty alleviation programmes is on the uplift of the farmers. View quote
Rajiv Gandhi
A man living without conflicts, as if he never lives at all. View quote
Confucius
He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor. View quote
Sarah Bernhardt
Suicide was against the law. Johnny had wondered why. It meant that if you missed, or the gas ran out, or the rope broke, you could get locked up in prison to show you that life was really very jolly and thoroughly worth living. View quote
Terry Pratchett
I am a firm believer in living as if there were no such thing as a secret. If we hide our sins and live in darkness, we will never get the healing we so desperately need; in fact, if it is hidden so well that we don't even recognize it, we may never even find forgiveness. View quote
Ted Haggard
The third big idea is that we confess our sins to someone close to us--a friend or our spouse. I don't mean a public declaration of our shortcomings; I mean confession in the security of a trusted and living friend. View quote
Ted Haggard
Today people live to work rather than work for a living. They have forgotten their true goal in life. Subsequently they have forgotten their dharma. There is no communication between hearts, there is no sharing. Having lost contact with other's hearts, we become totally isolated. But in truth we are not isolated islands, we are links that form one chain. (Mata Amritanandamayi)
If you're looking at the Bible for a guide to living a compassionate, wise and humane life, well, frankly you've got more chance of finding a lap dancing club in Mecca or a virgin in a catholic orphanage. View quote
Pat Condell
Words are mighty, words are living: Serpents with their venomous stings, Or bright angels, crowding round us, With heaven's light upon their wings: Every word has its own spirit, True or false, that never dies; Every word man's lips have uttered Echoes in God's skies. View quote
Adelaide Anne Procter
It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
We always thought the living Earth was a thing of beauty. It isn't. Life has had to learn to defend itself against the planet's random geological savagery. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke