Living Quotes - page 9

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living. (David Attenborough)
You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn't necessarily get you the truth. Two and two equals a voice outside the window. Two and two equals the wind. The living bird is not its labeled bones. View quote
Margaret Atwood
We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources. View quote
Jane Goodall
I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire. View quote
Roy Orbison
YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which maintains itself without reason. View quote
Emil Cioran
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living. View quote
Morrissey
But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer. View quote
Robert E. Howard
Life is not living, but living in health. (Martial)
Living virtuously is equal to living in accordance with one's experience of the actual course of nature. View quote
Chrysippus
People ask me if I have some kind of death wish, to keep saying the things I do. The answer is no: I would like to keep living. However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice. View quote
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Throughout my life, my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. View quote
Anaïs Nin
Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live. View quote
Anaïs Nin
My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living. View quote
Anaïs Nin
My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living. View quote
Anaïs Nin
There are still women who are not living their own lives, but living through their men or their children. View quote
Kathleen Turner
I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement. (Donald Trump)
Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery. View quote
George Washington
Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living. View quote
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define. View quote
Ani DiFranco