Living Quotes
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Many young girls are constantly consumed by controlling and managing their body image to the extent that they are much more involved in the production of the self than in living.
Susie Orbach
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No home anymore. Nowhere to return. My house is a ruin, a cemetery. You may yearn for the grave, but just try living there.
Anna Kamienska
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The dead know how to savor as the living never can.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.
Richard Powers
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This fathering is a man's second chance at living.
Angelo Patri
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If you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present.
Fausto Cercignani
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As long as I could hold a pencil, I was drawing and telling stories and making jokes. I've just been lucky that no one ever stopped me, and now I can do that for a living.
Alex Hirsch
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The main thing you can change is how you perceive yourself. Stop looking in the mirror and realize that youre living for yourself, not other people.
Amanda Seyfried
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
Cesare Pavese
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Chase away sorrow by living
Melissa Marr
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I think it's hard to make a living as a writer, but I think it's hard to work at McDonald's too.... I think the commitment is to get up everyday and say, "I'm a writer, therefore what I'm supposed to do today is write." And to do that, and to do that and to do that.
Pearl Cleage
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If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The mind, of course, is just what the brain does for a living.
Sharon Begley
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I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.
Francis Bacon
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There is a kind of woman who is economically powerful, professionally powerful, who threatens a white male grip on power that has a long historic precedent in the country. Independent women living outside of marriage threaten all kinds of things about the way power is supposed to work.
Rebecca Traister
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Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.
Johnny Depp
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Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital.
Murray Gell-Mann
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We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?
George Bernard Shaw
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Living exclusively in the land of the head or the heart will always be a limiting, limited experience. The most successful among us have dual citizenship.
Bill Crawford
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Boys have said in the past that I live my life like a movie. I love all things romantic, like kissing in the rain.
Mollie King
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Living submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air.
Evangelista Torricelli
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Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived, but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party.
Simon Hoggart
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By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier.
Susan Lieberman
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We want a better America, an America that will give its citizens, first of all, a higher and higher standard of living so that no child will cry for food in the midst of plenty. We want to have an America where the inventions of science will be at the disposal of every American family, not merely for the few that can afford them.
Sidney Hillman