Living Quotes

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
Norman Douglas

Wisdom, Dying, Desired

I'm living proof that you can make it out of the ghetto.
Junior Seau

Too many athletes are living in a tiny window. They have no vision for themselves - what they can be outside of football and what they can mean to a community. They just don't know any better. My hopes and dreams are unlimited.
Junior Seau

Dreams, Football, Mean

In a fragile environment, we need to be aware of ourselves as members of a uniquely powerful species living among other species who are quite as interesting as we are but vulnerable to us because we are cleverer in more destructive ways.
Andrew Motion

Powerful, Ourselves, Quite

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
John Berger

Dreams, Great, Human

My main dream - and I'm trying to get 'Living TV' to do it - is to go into prison and interview serial killers, rapists, murderers, psychopaths.
Katie Price

Trying, Dream, Prison

I love living in London but I would like to buy a place in Dubai and spend a few months of the year out there.
Kevin Pietersen

Love, Place, Few

Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in fact was done in the most ancient times; for, being a spirit clothed with a body, he is one with them.
Emanuel Swedenborg

Done, Speak, Able

My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.
Roger Federer

Money, Dad, Said

I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.
Christiane Amanpour

End, Made, Events

And the trajectory that our debt is taking now beyond $14 trillion is going to have an impact on our currency. It goes south, and our currency's going to have an impact on our standard of living and affect every family in this country, and over time, our international competitiveness.
Jon Huntsman, Jr.

Family, Time, Country

But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.
Polly Toynbee

Faith, Government, Nation

Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ.
Kenneth L. Pike

Life, God, Through

Don't try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. It can't harm the dead. Diverted to a living person, it might actually do harm.
John McCarthy

Person, Try, Hatred

I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.
Albert Finney

Truth, Someone, Lie

While we enjoy the benefits of living in the greatest democracy in the world, we must be ever conscious of the fact that none of the achievements or freedoms enjoyed in America would be possible without the price that has been paid for by our servicemen and women.
Mark Kennedy

Women, Greatest, Democracy

I tour alone. There's no sound check, no back up. I stay with the hosts; I am in a family home and it's really nourishing. I just have to remember after the show not to run out into the living room in my pyjamas. Every day, it's a new relationship being built. It's odd and wonderful.
Jane Siberry

Family, Home, Alone

My epiphany came in that police cell: I realised I was about to lose everything and it didn't bother me, not in the slightest. I'd come to hate cycling because I blamed it for the lie I was living.
David Millar

Hate, Lie, Everything

No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.
Antonio Tabucchi

Life, Teacher, Happy

Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.
Carlos Fuentes

Wife, Friends, Keep

We are all, right now, living the life we choose.
Peter McWilliams

My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.
Arabella Weir

Dad, America, After

I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.
Arabella Weir

Time, Father, Childhood

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.
William Godwin

Reason, Earth, Gift

To me, success was not having to have a boss and not having a day job. I've been living my own version of success since the early '90s when I first got signed. I haven't had a job since then.
Juliana Hatfield

Success, Job, Since

When you come across someone colorful and vibrant maybe in the present it isn't so interesting, but, in the past, it sheds a wonderful light onto living life.
Garrett Hedlund

Life, Past, Someone

Of course, money matters to everyone even if some don't want to admit it. If I won the Race to Dubai, I look at that prize money and think it could pay off my new house or the range I'm building. I am privileged to play golf for a living - look around St Andrews, that's my office.
Rory McIlroy

Money, Play, Around

Living your life 40 floors up, looking out every day on ocean and skies, you see the world from a different point of view. It's like living in a very interesting fishbowl, but since no one can see up here, it's like a fishbowl with a limo tint.
Pharrell Williams

Life, Different, Here

I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I'm not exactly a poster girl for healthy living.
Lexa Doig

Girl, Healthy, Sit

I get to do interesting roles and make a living.
Aidan Quinn

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