Quotes About Living

In this constant battle which we call living, we try to set a code of conduct according to the society in which we are brought up, whether it be a Communist society or a so-called free society; we accept a standard of behaviour as part of our tradition as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or whatever we happen to be.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the chemical characteristics and the constitution of proteins, which are regarded as the principal con-stituents of living organisms.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

While we walking, while we breathing, we dying... I be really feeling like, even though we live to die, some people be dying to live.

Everything is dead while it lives.

While living I want to live well.

I love Seattle. I lived out in Seattle for a while, and the food there is so phenomenal. It's so fresh and gorgeous, and just beautiful and simple. I really love that place.

The first experiments on the biological properties of radium were successfully made in France, with samples from our laboratory, while my husband was living.

I thought food and drink were just part of the perks of living at the White House. The next day, I got a call from his secretary saying my dad wanted to see me in the Oval Office, and when I got there, dad was waving this little pink receipt. I didn't know it came out of his salary.

My Glitterball still has pride of place in my living room!

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

In boxing, there are no bad guys or good guys. Just people trying to make a living and trying to live up to their pride and to try to become someone.

I take great pride in the fact that I have lived in a Spanish-speaking country.

The power of the living God is here on the earth. The Priesthood is here.

When we were on the farm, we were isolated, not just by geography but by the primitive living conditions: no electricity, no running water and, of course, no computer, no phone.

When you realize that your freedom is being taken away from you, you're like, 'You know what, I'm not going to get good food in prison, so I'm going to order McDonald's, Wendy's, Chick-fil-A.' We're turning up and living our best life, and I did that.

When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.

It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical. But it's what everyone wants - to get everyone's attention, to have your music make a living for you, to be validated in that way.

I think what I do for a living is a privilege, so at the very least, I'd like to think it can be a good time.

I had the privilege of living in Greece in the early 1970s.

Some of the most common pitfalls I see occur when authors don't check their privilege. Billions are living in a personal apocalypse right this second, so a little research and empathy can go a long way toward developing a convincing world.