Top 1200 Living Thing Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to be compassionate. It can also corrupt them. Once one has seen such images, one has started down the road of seeing more - and more. Images transfix. Images anesthetize.

A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing. The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.

The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine. Everybody comes from somewhere else. Everyone's got a Polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. That's a very big thing - the experience of not living where you started.

Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as it is nourished with kindness, sympathy, and understanding.

The only thing worse than dying is living a boring life.

Not being active, your name doesn't go out there as much, and you lose the popularity thing. Also, you're not able to make a living. This is what we do to make a living: we go out there and fight. Not being able to fight for a year and a half and not able to bring in money, it definitely sets you back.

I don't want to be little again. But at the same time I do. I want to be me like I was then, and me as I am now, and me like I'll be in the future. I want to be me and nothing but me. I want to be crazy as the moon, wild as the wind and still as the earth. I want to be every single thing it's possible to be. I'm growing and I don't know how to grow. I'm living but I haven't started living yet.

All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on earth which is not related to something or other.

I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.

The best thing you can do is go away from this saying, 'I can do this too,' because it's all possible and I'm living proof.

It is characteristic of the barbarian ... to insist upon seeing a thing "as it is." The desire testifies that he has nothing in himself with which to spiritualize it; the relation is one of thing to thing without the intercession of the imagination. Impatient of the veiling with which the man of higher type gives the world imaginative meaning, the barbarian and the Philistine, who is the barbarian living amid culture, demands the access of immediacy. Where the former wishes representation, the latter insists upon starkness of materiality, suspecting rightly that forms will mean restraint.

I'm fascinated by the whole communist thing. No one has a lot, but everyone is the same. I like that way of living.

Don't be ashamed or embarrassed to dream big. You're living your life with hope, that's a powerful thing.

The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up.

What's really interesting to me is to have a connection to what was going on in the past, but to make it a living thing.

The uncluttered arena grants every living thing its unique existence. Including me.

Life is dear to every living thing; the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it.

Converting liberals is always a great thing. It makes every day worth living.

Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.

I dug out the powder blue cashmere cardigan my mother Lisa gave me the Christmas before last, pulled on my oldest, softest Levi’s. Comfort clothes; the next best thing to a hug from a warm, living body. Lately there had been a shortage of hugs in my life. Lately there had been a shortage of warm, living bodies.

The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine,' Rushdie says. 'Everybody comes from somewhere else. Everyone's got a Polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. That's a very big thing - the experience of not living where you started.

This living, this living, this living Was never a project of mine.

Well, I was living it, but a shared dream half-lived is a hollow thing

The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.

The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men.

I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love. It is in the interest of living art and living history that I oppose so-called restoration. What history can there be in a building bedaubed with ornament, which cannot at the best be anything but a hopeless and lifeless imitation of the hope and vigor of the earlier world?

Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.

We are connected to each other not only as humans, but to every living thing on the planet.

I think that every living person, every person who is awake to the functioning principles within his reality has a moment where he stops blaming the problems in the world on group thinking, on humanity and authority, and starts to face himself. I hate this more than anything. This is the hardest principle within christian spirituality for me to deal with. The problem is not out there, the problem is the needy beast of a thing living in my chest.

I've been very lucky and fortunate to make my living doing the thing I love.

Film is a living, breathing thing. It's very delicate, and you have to listen and watch for what it tells you.

The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.

Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude.

Living is nothing more or less than doing one thing instead of another.

I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.

I just believe in giving people their roses while they're living. That's my new thing - period.

There is not a single thing that Jesus cannot change, control, and conquer because he is the living Lord.

The one thing they didn't tell you at Iowa is how hard it is to make a living writing fiction and poetry.

The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.

I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.

One good thing that comes from living the nomadic life demanded by an expedition is that one sheds the fake skin donned from living too closely among society. For those of us who live for the freedom of such a lifestyle, that skin is dry and itchy and ill fitting. From my observances, that skin is much like a callus caused by the pure irritation of being forced to spend so much time with one's fellow man. Thank God I am spared such nonsense.

I'm one of those people for whom success is one thing, but significance is another. If I can have both, I'm living the dream.

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.

Everything thing we're doing is coming out of the living Word of God.

The best thing we can do for the dead is to do their share of living with a smile. ~Train Heartnet

As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing.

Economies of scale are a good thing. If we didn't have them, we'd still be living in tents and eating buffalo.

To adjust your philosophy and creativity in fashion to the time you're living in is the most important thing.

The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.

The good thing about living like me is everywhere you go is a step up.

Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.

When any living thing has come to the end of its cycle, we accept that end as natural. When that intangible cycle has run its course it is a natural and not unhappy thing that a life comes to its end.

Excess is not really something I consider a bad thing; especially when you are talking about living.

To me, the good thing about living in L.A. is diversity in lifestyle choices, color, and religion.

I don't particularly want to work with my husband all the time, as in the living and the working thing.

There's this celebrity thing that goes along with making records or being a rock star. I'm into this celebrity thing just enough to let me go on making records and making a living out of it.

Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God, here and now.

I never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist.

What I do for a living is re-create human emotion, and that's a pretty weird thing to do from nine till five.