Living Quotes - page 8

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. (Henri-Frédéric Amiel)
That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of nations, is as shocking as it is true but when those who are concerned in the government of a country, make it their study to sow discord, and cultivate prejudices between nations, it becomes the more unpardonable. View quote
Thomas Paine
What I mean by living to one's-self is living in the world, as in it, not of it it is as if no one know there was such a person, and you wished no one to know it it is to be a silent spectator of the mighty scene of things, not an object of attention or curiosity in it to take a thoughtful, anxious interest in what is passing in the world, but not to feel the slightest inclination to make or meddle with it. View quote
William Hazlitt
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living. View quote
William Hazlitt
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allot myself the luxury of living it so badly. View quote
Paulo Coelho
On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice . . . View quote
George Eliot
I am an Egyptian Muslim, educated in Cairo and New York, and now living in Vienna. My wife and I have spent half our lives in the North, half in the South. And we have experienced first hand the unique nature of the human family and the common values we all share. View quote
Mohamed ElBaradei
Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball. View quote
Magic Johnson
Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone. (Andy Rooney)
Trust no future, however pleasant Let the dead past bury its dead Act, - act in the living Present Heart within and God overhead. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do. View quote
José Ortega y Gasset
We are living in a cultural dark age of musical pollution. You put the radio on, and five minutes later you need an aspirin. View quote
Vangelis
I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for -- whether it's a field, or a home, or a country. View quote
Thornton Wilder
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. View quote
Thornton Wilder
Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquest... View quote
Charles Lindbergh
Real living is living for others. View quote
Bruce Lee
The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies. View quote
Alexander Pope
To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof. (Donald Knuth)
The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart. View quote
Annie Dillard
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world. View quote
Margaret Mead
The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love. It is in the interest of living art and living history that I oppose so-called restoration. What history can there be in a building bedaubed with ornament, which cannot at the best be anything but a hopeless and lifeless imitation of the hope and vigor of the earlier world. View quote
William Morris