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Living Quotes


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


"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 am very grateful to make my living doing what I would do for free."


"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."


"There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside."


"For anyone who has that calling and is trying also to make a living at it, it is really hard."


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



"No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you."


"Living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me."


"To live is shared by all, but not to be worthy of living."


"This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes."


"I've seldom seen a horny player walk into a bar and not let out exactly what he did for a living."



"I'll never get used to living without Mo, but the painful things that surround what happened to him aren't so painful any more-not so raw or so new."


"Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world."



"Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living."


"You actually can make it, no matter what. I truly am a firm believer in that. Eminem's living proof."


"I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing is connected in some way."


"When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly. We were in search of the living."


"For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town."



"Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do."


"I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now."



"Most Sunday magazines, with the New York Times as an exception, are kind of sleepy, weekend service vehicles to move living room products."



"We are living in a world that is beyond controllability."


"This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale."


"It's important to bring things back from the Space Station because, unlike somebody living at the house where the garbage truck comes by twice a week, they don't have that in space."


"It never ceases to amaze me that I get to do this for a living."


"I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it."


"Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves."



"I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972."


"Unless something real cool comes along, I will probably be doing features, so long as I can make a living doing that. Otherwise, I will do another show."


"I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own."
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