Living Quotes - page 38

Why am I fighting to live, if I'm just living to fightWhy am I trying to see, when there aint nothing in sightWhy am I trying to give, when no one gives me a tryWhy am I dying to live, if I'm just living to diesomeone tell me y. (Tupac Shakur)
The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble. View quote
Walter Benjamin
Even though there's a massive amount of people of colour now living in Scotland...this country is 30 or 40 years behind any other English city in terms of racial attitudes and integration. There's no proper acknowledgement of the slave trade and how many Scottish cities were founded on money from that. Our children are just not taught that history. View quote
Jackie Kay
My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon. View quote
Sydney Smith
The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors if there be any such so fortunate living among us today. However, it is the ideal to strive for, and in our opinion, it is only through Contrology that this unique trinity of a balanced body, mind, and spirit can ever be attained. View quote
Joseph Pilates
Brave men were living before Agamemnon. View quote
Horace
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. View quote
John Green (author)
I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?”. View quote
John Green (author)
That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape---the world or the end of it? View quote
John Green (author)
For the last 12 years, I've felt really privileged to be living such a normal life. It's so a part of who I am. View quote
Kate Bush
The eye seems to be responding to something living. (William Baziotes)
I consider my painting finished when my eyes goes to a particular spot on the canvas. But if I put the picture away about thirty feet on the wall and the movements keep returning to me and the eye seems to be responding to something living, then it is finished. View quote
William Baziotes
I have not lived, but only dreamed about living. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves. View quote
A. J. P. Taylor
Angels, living light most glorious! Beneath the Godhead in burning desire in the darkness and mystery of creation you look on the eye of your God never taking your fill: What glorious pleasures take shape within you! View quote
Hildegard of Bingen
I sit at my table en grand seigneur, And when I have done, throw a crust to the poor; Not only the pleasure, one's self, of good living, But also the pleasure of now and then giving. So pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho! So pleasant it is to have money. View quote
Arthur Hugh Clough
The king dead is a living god. View quote
Julian Jaynes
This breakdown in the bicameral mind in what is called the Intermediate Period is reminiscent at least of those periodic breakdowns of Mayan civilizations when all authority suddenly collapsed, and the population melted back into tribal living in the jungles. View quote
Julian Jaynes
Political society wants things simple. Political scientists know them to be complex... One could argue that, in part, the leftist impulse is so conspicuous among the educated and well-to-do precisely because they are exposed to more information, and are accordingly forced to choose between living with the strains of complexity, or lapsing into simplism. View quote
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
This priesthood became a closed group, able to control enormous wealth and incomes, and concerned very largely with the study of the solar and astronomical periodicities on which there influence was originally based. With the surplus thus created, the priesthood was able to command human labor in huge amounts and to direct this labor from the simple tillage of the peasant peoples to the diversified and specialized activities that constitute civilized living. (Carroll Quigley)
If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Obscurity and a competence -- that is a life that is best worth living. View quote
Mark Twain
I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made. View quote
Elia Kazan
As an adult, I think I wanna be living in New York City and help a lot of homeless people and try to become vegan and maybe be a band with some good friends and be making a living and be happy with how much money I have. View quote
Rachel Trachtenburg