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"Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life." »Simone Weil
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"We're all going to go crazy, living this epidemic every minute, while the rest of the world goes on out there, all around us, as if nothing is happening, going on with their own lives and not knowing what it's like, what we're going through. We're living through war, but where they're living it's peacetime, and we're all in the same country." »Larry Kramer
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"Empty is the house of a childless man; as empty is the mind of a bachelor; empty are all quarters of the world to an ignorant man; but poverty is total emptiness." »The Hitopadesa
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"No business which depends for its existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level--I mean the wages of decent living." »Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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"Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender." »Andrew Schneider
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"Hear me, four quarters of the world - a relative I am Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds." »Black Elk
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"The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means." »Sir Henry Taylor
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"Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written in writing what deserves to be read and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it." »Pliny the Elder
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"True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it." »Pliny The Elder
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"Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in the mirror which waits always before or behind." »Catherine Drinker Bowen
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"The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down." »Flip Wilson
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"Surely God causes the seed and the stone to sprout He brings forth the living from the dead, and He is the bringer forth of the dead from the living." »Koran
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"We are living the events which for centuries to come will be minutely studied by scholars who will undoubtedly describe these days as probably the most exciting and creative in the history of mankind. But preoccupied with our daily chores, our worries and personal hopes and ambitions, few of us are actually living in the present." »Lawrence K. Frank
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"I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul." »Douglas MacArthur
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"No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living." »Author Unknown
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"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart." »e e cummings
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"Imagine a world without Darwin. Imagine a world in which Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace had not transformed our understanding of living things. What... would become baffling and puzzling..., in urgent need of explanation? The answer is: practically everything about living things...." »Helena Cronin, 1992
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""We ask ourselves all kinds of questions, such as why does a peacock have such beautiful feathers, and we may answer that he needs the feathers to impress a female peacock, but then we ask ourselves, and why is there a peacock? And then we ask, why is there anything living? And then we ask, why is there anything at all? And if you tell some advocate of scientism that the answer is a secret, he will go white hot and write a book. But it is a secret. And the experience of living with the secret and thinking about it is in itself a kind of faith.”" »Václav Havel
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"What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living." »Doug Larson
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"Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things." »Eric Butterworth
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"living together is an art." »William Pickens
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"1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them." »Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions
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"There is no man living that cannot do more than he thinks he can!" »Henry Ford
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"I dream for a living." »Steven Spielberg
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"If you are wondering you are not living.If you are going to die you will wonder." »Harrys Mitrogeorgos
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"living well is the best revenge." »George Herbert
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"'I have done my best.' That is about all the philosophy of living one needs." »Lin Yutang
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"Being on the tightrope is living everything else is waiting." »Karl Wallenda
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"We never live; we are always in the expectation of living." »Voltaire
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