Quotes About Living

The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.

Ask the first man you meet what he means by defending freedom, and he'll tell you privately he means defending the standard of living.

The true church is not an organization controlled by the rules of men but a holy collection of living stones with Jesus Christ as the Cornerstone.

Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.

But not only medicine, engineering, and painting are arts; living itself is an art in fact, the most important and at the same time the most difficult and complex art to be practiced by man.

Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.

For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country.

Happiness is never a negative affair; it is to be won by men who are fully alive, full of the joy of living

A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.

War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.

Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.

A car hit a Jewish man. The paramedic says, "Are you comfortable?" The man says, "I make a good living."

But they had, perversely, been living among people who were peering into the wrong end of the telescope, or something, and who had convinced themselves that the opposite was true - that the world had once been a splendid, orderly place...and that everything had been slowly, relentlessly falling apart ever since.

The living stayed home, haunting the world of the dead like ghosts.

The boring bits gave Daniel some leisure to ponder the quite peculiar family curse he seemed to be living under, namely, this marked tendency to be present at the demise of English Kings.

Had these people been living in, for example, the agricultural paradise of the Nile Delta, they might have been able to get away with some mazy religious dogma as the basis for that system.

Zula sat back in her chair and looked out the window. The outcome had never really been in doubt. But being the director of a foundation had taught her a few things. One: much of what she did for a living was symbolic. But two: just because it was symbolic didn't mean it wasn't important. She had to put on at least a performance of thinking about it.

At one point, some years previously, one of the engineers at Corporation 9592—a classic liberal-arts-major-turned-coder-so-he-could-make-a-decent-living—had identified this as the Hand met Spiegelende Bol Problem

When you bring an end to judgment, you bring an end to an entire way of living. This is no small thing. This is a life changing shift in attitude and behavior. This is a miracle.

Life is a process of creation, and you keep living it as if it were a process of re-enactment!

Why are you bothering? You've got an excuse. You've got bad blood. You must like living; I guess I would if I were you.

I'm not afraid of dying; I'm only afraid of living

I'm not afraid of dying; I'm afraid of living.

They take away your options and all you can do is live, and it's just like Humble said: I'm not afraid of dying; I'm afraid of living. I was afraid before, but I'm afraid even more now that I'm a public joke.