Quotes with living

Quotes 141 till 160 of 660.

  • James Thurber From one casual of mine he picked this sentence. ''After dinner, the men moved into the living room.'' I explained to the professor that this was Rose' way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. There must, as we know, be a comma after every move, made by men, on this earth.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Benjamin Hoff From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness.
    Benjamin Hoff
    American author (1946 - )
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  • A. C. Swinburne From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
    A. C. Swinburne
    English poet and playwright (1837 - 1909)
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  • Arthur Ashe From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
    Arthur Ashe
    Robert Ashe Jr (1943 - 1993)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Arthur Golden Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • Carolyn Murphy Giving birth was the most amazing thing I've ever done. I'd been living in a Third World country, and I said, 'I'm going to just squat behind a tree.' I basically did that but in a chair in my living room. I didn't want a sterile hospital room. I didn't want doctors. I had a midwife.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln Gold is good in its place but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Harold Pinter Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
    Harold Pinter
    English playwright, screenwriter and director (1930 - 2008)
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  • Bruce Nordstrom Grandpa didn't have any idea of customer service. But he wanted to make a living. Eventually, we saw it was not in our best interest to be arguing with customers.
    Bruce Nordstrom
    American businessman (1933 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Thomas Szasz Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Norman Macewan Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
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  • George Bernard Shaw Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Aaron Carter Having a dream, living that dream, losing that dream, dreaming again and then having that dream come true again is one of the greatest feelings ever because I'm stronger.
    Aaron Carter
    American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor (1987 - )
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for who so laboreth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Ben E. King He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies.
    Ben E. King
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Horace He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Theodor Reik He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.
    Theodor Reik
    Austrian-American psychoanalyst (1888 - 1969)
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