Still, I could not imagine how being poor could be worse than being rich and hating yourself. I had seen enough of what it was like to be dead. It was time to try living.

I loved to watch cartoons and even made little stop-motion films in the backyard. At the time, I never really thought that it was something you could do for a living; it never actually hit...

Haldir had gone on and was now climbing to the high flet. As Frodo prepared to follow him, he laid his hand upon the tree beside the ladder: never before had he been so suddenly...

I think the fact that I am living my dream and being really productive and embarking on all my lifelong aspirations is proof enough that if I can do it, anyone can. I try to...

We make music for a living. Like I’ve always said, if you like what you’re doing, you’re halfway there; if someone else likes it, that’s even better. If they don’t like it, at least you...

In that second it dawned on me that I had been living here for eight years with a strange man and had borne him three children.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

The greatest art is to shape the quality of the day.

We are going to need more people to take care of older people. Nursing homes and assisted living is going to be huge in terms of the need for workers.

I only realised why I keep living in Shepperton when I returned to China. All the people who moved there had come from places just like Shepperton, and so they built and lived in houses...

How do you live out God’s plan for your life? By living God’s way one day at a time.

This is outrageous. He is a sex offender living in a nursery school with guns!

Speak only that which will bring you honor.

Thought is uncontrollable but controllable. Thought is the pivot of life and the epitome of good or bad living. A controlled thought is a controlled life and an uncontrolled life is an uncontrolled living. Our...

Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the chemical characteristics and the constitution of proteins, which are regarded as the principal...

Yesterday, today, tomorrow and maybe forever, living and leaving without you.

We live first and find reasons later.

Everybody looks good in their own mirror!

All of us need to be constantly reminded it takes a heap of living and loving to make a house a home.

I thought maybe if she could express herself rather than suffer herself, if she had a way to relieve the burden, she lived for nothing more than living, with nothing to get inspired by, to...

Back in the ’90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.

…In this way that he sought to control the very passage of his life, deftly and without forethought, yet precisely and with enormous care. Part of it was to allow what was enormous, what was...

I think some of them have viewpoints about enjoying your twenties and are living vicariously through me they would probably have me with a different guy every night. They’re like: ‘Go girl, go’.

…escribir lo que no se había vivido, lo que sólo se había querido vivir, era también una manera —cobarde y tímida— de vivirlo…

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

I can think of some things that would be fun, but I’m living my dreams.

Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)

Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it.

People have made a living deconstructing Lennon and The Beatles songs because of their compositional sophistication. But what’s so exciting about John is that he never had any of that training on musical theory; something...

People come and go in our lifetime, but we hold onto the ones worth keeping, the ones who have touched our lives in such a way that changes everything we thought we knew or felt;...

We are living in the 21st century, and children are dying of hunger, so how do we fight it?

For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth.

I support the Surfrider Foundation, which is focused on protecting the oceans and beaches. I also recycle and use mass transit, ride my bike as often as I can, or I walk, which is one...

Did I live the spring I’d sought?It’s true in joy, I walked along,took part in dance, and sang the song.and never tried to bind an hourto my borrowed garden bower;nor did I once entreata day...

I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t...

I’m living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle.

Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.

The first law of nature is self-preservation. Cut off that which may harm you. But if it is worth preserving, and is meaningful, nourish it and have no regrets. Ultimately, this is true living and...

Times like this were special. Memory builders. When something extraordinary happened to a person the kind of things remembered forever after it didn’t have to be a life-changing event like a graduation or marriage or...

My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure.

I have never lived a life so much larger than death. (93)

We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.

It’s not the best life in the world, but it’s all I know.

I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state,...

I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of...

For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere – a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.

Exist with me. We’d do so beautifully.

I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters… but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world’s greatest living man – Alexander von Humboldt.

I’m happily married to Peter senior; we’re best friends as well as lovers, which is probably the best recipe for a successful relationship. We live in a lovely part of England.