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Quotes About Living

because of the tiny size of the apartment, was happening
~ David Baldacci
my sister Renee. They live in California." He
~ David Baldacci
the most important factor in America's economic future—in raising everyone's standard of living—is not land, or money, or computers; it's human talent.
~ David Boaz
every government intervention in the marketplace tends to reduce wealth and the overall standard of living.
~ David Boaz
Living thing, does Entropy, my wicked Aunt, notice our joint conspiracy? Not yet, I think, for you are yet too small. Your puny struggle against her tide is mere fluttering in a great wind. And she thinks I am still her ally.
~ David Brin
A living planet is a much more complex metaphor for deity than just a bigger father with a bigger fist.
~ David Brin
Knowing the truth is fairly useless; feeling it is profound; living it makes all the difference.
~ David Deida
Ordinary men live in fear all the time. Didn't you know that? We're afraid of the weather, we're afraid of powerful men, we're afraid of the night and the monsters that lurk in the dark, we're afraid of growing old and of dying. Sometimes we're even afraid of living. Ordinary men are afraid almost every minute of their lives.
~ David Eddings
Ordinary men live in fear all the time. Didn't you know that? We're afraid of the weather, we're afraid of powerful men, we're afraid of the night and the monsters that lurk in the dark, we're afraid of growing old and of dying. Sometimes we're even afraid of living. Ordinary men are afraid almost every minute of their lives.
~ David Eddings
I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them.
~ David Foster Wallace
To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.
~ David Foster Wallace
Our expenses, including rent, have averaged sixty dollars a month.
~ William L. Shirer
Live, for this is the time of your life.
~ William Saroyan
Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
~ William Saroyan
What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living? Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?
~ William Shakespeare
If her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her, she would infect to the north star!
~ William Shakespeare
What is in that word honor? What is that honor? Air. A trim reckoning. Who hath it? He that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. 'Tis insensible, then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it. Therefore, I'll none of it. Honor is a mere scutcheon. And so ends my catechism.
~ William Shakespeare
I wonder that you will still be talking, Signior Benedick: nobody marks you. Benedick: What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?
~ William Shakespeare
Life is better life past fearing death, Than that which lives to fear.
~ William Shakespeare
Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.
~ William Shakespeare
What is honour? A word. What is that word 'honour'? Air. A trim135 reckoning! Who hath it? He that died o'Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible137, then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction138 will not suffer it. Therefore I'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon139: and so ends my catechism.140
~ William Shakespeare
a word we make to mean whatever we want it to mean. Spirituality, Eugene averred, was "Christ, the God-revealing Christ, who is behind and in all of this living.
~ Unknown
The past is over, gone. What is to come doesn't exist yet. That's tomorrow! It's only now that can ever be, at any moment. And at this moment, now, we are alive--and together. We can't ask more. There isn't any more to ask.
~ Winston Graham
The only security was death. So long as one wanted to go on living one had to accept the risks.
~ Winston Graham