A Quote by Muriel Barbery
Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well.
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Live, or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well. So here we are, I've assigned myself a new obligation. I'm going to stop undoing, deconstructing, I'm going to start building. What matters is what you are doing when you die... I want to be building.
Live well, Ichigo. Live well, age well, go bald well, and die after me. And... if you can, die smiling.
We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations. That at any rate is my dream. I shall live and die in trying to realize it. My faith helps me to discover new truths every day.
It ain’t dying I’m talking about, it’s living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.” ~spoken by Augustus McCrae
We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters.
Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too;
To live and die is all we have to do.
In the great scheme of things, what matters is not how long you live but why you live, what you stand for and what you are willing to die for.
To write well and speak well is mere vanity if one does not live well.
I live in a beautiful vintage building that was built in the heart of downtown Chicago.
Everything alive must die. Every building built to the sky will fall. Don't try to tell me my everlasting love is a lie.
We didn't push it down people's throats...One turned into three in a short period of time. I built the first one and...one day someone walked in and said "You know, I really like the design on this. Who built that?" I said "I did." He goes "Well, would you be interested in building me one?" I went "Yeah, I'll do that."
There were never a lot of attacks on my work. We were building more parks than were ever built in the city, building more recreation centers, fixing more streets. We had national events, the Super Bowl, the (Major League Baseball) All-Star game, Final Four. We built seven hotels. The city hadn't built a hotel in 20 or more years.
The confusion between temperament and character has had serious consequences for ethical theory. Preferences with regard to differences in temperament are mere matters of subjective taste.
But differences in character are ethically of the most fundamental importance.
Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.
You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. (Quoted by C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity)
I live in an apartment building built in 1925, and it hasn't been heavily renovated, so I feel very much connected to that time and what went on in that place.
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