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Living Quotes



"All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I've achieved since then is above and beyond."


"Gaza has 1.2 million Palestinians living in crowded places and the resistance will be strong."


"Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once."


"Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?"


"Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product."


"You know, I eat, I ate pretty well anyway so, I'm basically living the same, I just curtailed the stupidity."


"I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn't pay the bill either, but it was cheaper."


"Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living."


"What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did."


"Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century."


"The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good."


"All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former."



"So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash."


"Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?"


"Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin."


"I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living."


"I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought it in 1989, so I was already in it. I began living there in 1985, so I've had the same address and phone number since then."


"Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top."


"I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even then. I'm sure I've met some without realizing it."


"We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away."


"What really grabs me about living in Tucson is the color beige."


"To dream the future is much more better than to regret the past.But the best of all, to live in the present life with all of your power."
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