Top 1200 Cost Of Living Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

Authors do this for a living, and if you take their work for nothing, you are depriving them of a living.

Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.

Only living things bring living joy to the soul and must elevate it.

Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.

In our society now, we prefer to see ourselves living than living.

There is not a man in the country that can't make a living for himself and family. But he can't make a living for them and his government, too, the way his government is living. What the government has got to do is live as cheap as the people

Sometimes the dead are more alive than the living. And they can kill the living.

There are still women who are not living their own lives, but living through their men or their children

There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.

The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it.

Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital.

We stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time and energy to industrial occupations. The monetary equivalent of a living wage varies according to local conditions, but must include enough to secure the elements of a normal standard of living-a standard high enough to make morality possible, to provide for education and recreation, to care for immature members of the family, to maintain the family during periods of sickness, and to permit of reasonable saving for old age.

After an encounter with the living Son of the living God, nothing is ever again to be as it was before.

To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.

Love is costly. T forgive in love costs us our sense of justice. To serve in love costs us time. To share in love costs us money. Every act of love costs us in some way, just as it cost God to love us. But we are to live a life of love just as Christ loves us and gave Himself for us at great cost to Himself.

One never finds life worth living. One always has to make it work living.

The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it

I don’t care how old I live! I just want to be living while I am living!

Everybody wants to have a commentary on my life, like they are actually living it. Cool, comment all you want but I'm the one that's living it.

Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence.

There are as many ways of living a good life as there are people living lives.

Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.

According to, for example, one academic by the name of Philip Harvey, whose expertise is basically how do we create a New Deal, today. According to his estimate, these jobs could be created for far less than the [Barack] Obama stimulus package, which cost, you know, $700 or $800 billion, something like that, and produced around 3 million jobs - not a lot. According to his estimates, it would cost less to produce two-thirds of 20 million.

The earthquake in Haiti was a class-based catastrophe. It didn't much harm the wealthy elite up in the hills, they were shaken but not destroyed. On the other hand the people who were living in the miserable urban slums, huge numbers of them, they were devastated. Maybe a couple hundred thousand were killed. How come they were living there? They were living there because of-it goes back to the French colonial system-but in the past century, they were living there because of US policies, consistent policies.

The farmer and the farm, like "the environment," are looked upon, for example, as means to offset trade deficits. The farm is a place where we can externalize costs. The cost of pesticides to the farmer and the cost of the pesticides to the soil and groundwater are regarded similarly by the public: "a serious problem that something ought to be done about." But the problem is more fundamental than this glib statement would indicate, for soil pollution is an expense of production. So are pesticides and nitrates in our farm wells. So is the loss of farmers from the land.

If the majority of people were right, we'd be living in paradise. But we are not living in paradise, we are living in hell. What does it mean? That means the majority of people are wrong. So I never believed what people told me.

The unexamined life is not worth living. But if all you're doing is examining, then you're not living!

Life is for living, not living uptight, see ya somewhere up in the sky.

There are still women who are not living their own lives, but living through their men or their children.

I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.

For an individual as well as for a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily.

Living in London is very different to living in a little town in Germany.

When people ask me what I do for a living, I always say, "I get rejected for a living." And that's true.

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

There are days where I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I'm so happy I'm living the life I'm living.'

... do something. Pay your rent for the privilege of living on this beautiful, blue-green, living Earth.

If you're living your life avoiding stress, you must be living on an ashram.

The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn't seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions. He even prides himself on his political ignorance, sticks out his chest and says he hates politics. He doesn't know, the imbecile, that from his political non-participation comes the prostitute, the abandoned child, the robber and, worst of all, corrupt officials, the lackeys of exploitative multinational corporations.

There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine. Oh, hard is the struggle, and sparse is The gain of the one at the top, For art is a form of catharsis, And love is a permanent flop, And work is the province of cattle, And rest's for a clam in a shell, So I'm thinking of throwing the battle - Would you kindly direct me to hell?

Favorable and unfavorable conditions are part of living but smiling through them all is the Art of Living.

I have a confession to make. For years, I earned a living - or a sort of living - writing negative book reviews.

I sing my song for a living, and I don't really worry about who listens or what they think. But it seems to make a living.

Jews have been living in Jerusalem way before British people were living in London.

Too many commercials. Too many lies. Too many celebrities. I don't recognize. Too many brand names. Too many magazines. I got so much sensation, I can't feel a thing. Simple. Living. Got to get to simple - living. Simple living. Simple... simply living.

Historically Indians have been frugal in terms of living, using only as much is required. Now convenience has taken over our simple and sustainable ways of living. We used to wash clothes with our hands, we used buckets and a mug for bath, there was emphasis on ventilation - but all that is lost to the fast pace of living.

On the one hand, the Republicans are telling industrial workers that the high cost of food in the cities is due to this government's farm policy. On the other hand, the Republicans are telling the farmers that the high cost of manufactured goods on the farm is due to this government's labor policy. That's plain hokum. It's an old political trick: "If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em." But this time it won't work.

The fear is simply because you are not living with life, You are living in your mind.

Living in the 'Big Brother' house is a bit like living in hell. Only hotter.

Dallas Willard warns us too of the "cost of non-discipleship." We may be able to live with some pain, but when our whole self becomes more and more rotten, the cost is far greater than dealing with the problem as soon as possible. This is why I think following Jesus, though challenging, is much easier than following anything else. The world has nothing better to offer me. Jesus has come to right my wrongs and to make me refreshingly new.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

I'll tell you what, our inner cities are so, so bad right now. The danger, the crime, the lack of education, no jobs. African Americans are living in hell in our - in the inner cities. I mean, they're living - they're living in hell. You walk to the store for a loaf of bread; you get shot.

When 'G' Thang' was created, I was living in Agoura Hills, and Snoop and Warren G were living with me.

The only thing better than living on a Mac is living in Hogwarts.

I'm living with two guys. I'm living with a slob and a guy who sleeps all day.

Living by faith isn't living with certainty. It's trusting God in spite of unanswered questions and unresolved doubts.

Since education is not a means to living, but is identical with the operation of living a life which is fruitful and inherently significant, the only ultimate value which can be set up is just the process of living itself. And this is not an end to which studies and activities are subordinate means; it is the whole of which they are ingredients.

I'm living my future as long as you're living in the present and realize how beautiful life is.

Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.

Living virtuously is equal to living in accordance with one's experience of the actual course of nature

I think most of us can remember from our own childhood, just in the Disney cartoons, things that frightened us profoundly. For me it was Bambi, the scene when the forest was on fire. That was something I had nightmares about. I can't imagine being a little kid of eight and seeing Night Of The Living Dead with living corpses eating the flesh of living people.