Living In Quotes

#1. What is the next step, the practical application?
- I will answer that the
absolutely vital thing is to consolidate your understanding, to become
capable of enjoyment, of living in the present, and of the discipline
which this involves. Without this you have nothing to give.

Alan W. Watts

#2. When you have no money in New York, you're living in a shoebox, and it's freezing. When you have no money in L.A., you're living in a slightly larger shoebox, and you can go outside and feel okay about your life for a minute.

Anna Kendrick

#3. I am living in hell from one day to the next. But there is nothing I can do to escape. I don't know where I would go if I did. I feel utterly powerless, and that feeling is my prision. I entered of my own free will, I locked the door, and I threw away the key.

Haruki Murakami

#4. And that's the thing about marriage. It can look perfect to people from the outside but be utterly imperfect on the inside. The reverse is true as well. No one knows what goes on in a marriage except for the two people living in it.

Elin Hilderbrand

#5. In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions altogether occupy a bare one per cent of our time. The remaining ninety-nine per cent is just living in waiting.

Osamu Dazai

#6. Man is always seeking a power, a power to overcome something or destroy something; and therefore he is not living in the awareness of God, because in the realization of the presence of God there is no need to overcome, to destroy, or to do anything.

Joel S. Goldsmith

#7. Living in a stupid country is living in a marsh! You are surrounded by the reptiles and the alligators! Refusing hell is the best path to eliminate the hell!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. I'm really enjoying living in Los Angeles. It's a great city to live in. I'm living a very suburban domesticated lifestyle out there - a two bedroomed little bungalow with two cars, and we're just driving around, going to meetings here and there - it's lovely!

Ioan Gruffudd

#9. ...living in daylights separation, together in night times dreams...

Bemy Wells

#10. We are living in a material world and I'm a material girl.

Madonna Ciccone

#11. If you live in poor neighborhoods - I know from living in several poor neighborhoods - the worst supermarkets in the city are in the poorest neighborhoods, where people don't have cars.

Sandra Cisneros

#12. Living in Brooklyn it's a very fend-for-yourself place. Maybe it's made me a little bit harsh but I don't consider that to be pejorative.

Fernando Torres

#13. If we could only live on good food like that, he said to her somewhat loudly, we wouldn't have the country full of rotten teeth and rotten guts. Living in a bogswamp, eating cheap food and the streets paved with dust, horsedung and consumptives' spits.

James Joyce

#14. The growth of Stewart Airport creates new jobs for area residents, brings new business and new travelers to the region, and brings new convenient travel options to those of us living in the Hudson Valley.

Sue Kelly

#15. If your partner means the world to you, then other people, including temptations and outside influences, shouldn't be living in it. Why invite trouble? There's enough to go around.

Donna Lynn Hope

#16. I sat there afraid that I might discover that the world around me is not real. then i thought: wait. i need fear that only if its true, and if it is, i must consider that while this may be bad, worse than that is living in a world that is only real because i am a coward.

Philip K. Jason

#17. I think that we're living in a time where there are trillion-dollar opportunities that never existed before.

Peter Diamandis

#18. The man who lives in division is living in death. He cannot find himself because he is lost; he has ceased to be a reality. The person he believes himself to be is a bad dream.

Thomas Merton

#19. Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.

Eric Idle

#20. He had forgotten the most important thing about living in the wilderness, the one thing he'd thought he would never forget-expect the unexpected. What you didn't think would get you, would get you. Plan on the worst and be happy when it didn't come.

Gary Paulsen

#21. A certain elementary training in statistical method is becoming as necessary for everyone living in this world of today as reading and writing.

H.G.Wells

#22. Living in the past is like choosing to cling to a chronic illness.

Asa Don Brown

#23. Living in Washington, you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.

Tucker Carlson

#24. I have a boyfriend who's a ghost, I thought. Of course I'm living in a dreamworld.

Jeri Smith-Ready

#25. I can't give in. Giving in means living in the Labyrinth, losing, dying here. It means letting go of the string that's my only way out.

Skye Warren

#26. That's the beauty of living in New York City is that a good chunk of the media is here and willing to drink with you.

Bre Pettis

#27. To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.

Bo Bennett

#28. We're living in a Machiavellian world, whether we like it or we don't.

Bob Dylan

#29. I try to be nice, I try to respect other people, but over the years I've learned that all this stuff we do is a bunch of crap. That doesn't mean it doesn't have its place. We are living in a material world, so why not live with something beautiful?

Tom Ford

#30. In the rush of today's world, and with more than half of us now living in cities, the majority of people are less and less connected with the spectacle of nature.

Louise Leakey

#31. Living in the fishbowl is hard enough without worrying about a Secret Service that can't keep mum.

Eleanor Clift

#32. Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that.

Daniel Berrigan

#33. I understand the power of the Internet, but I can't say that I'm there. I'm old-fashioned and living in a different century. I don't know. I just don't really understand the craze of it.

Ksenia Solo

#34. Once a refugee, always a refugee. I can't ever remember not being all right wherever I was, but you don't give your whole allegiance to a place or want to be entirely identified with the society you're living in.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

#35. We need to learn to process things in a different way. I always think of everything in terms of energy. To me, problems represent living in a world of low energy. When you bring higher energy to the presence of lower energy, it dissolves it, it dissipates it, it can't survive.

Wayne Dyer

#36. More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now.

Brian Eno

#37. I just had no idea I could collect so much crap while living in a dorm.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#38. If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung.

Billie Holiday

#39. I used to want to be a movie star so I wouldn't have to live in trailers anymore. And now that I make movies, I spend a lot of my life living in trailers.

Roseanne Barr

#40. Our first love is Jesus. Holiness is not ultimately about living up to a moral standard. It's about living in Christ and living out of our real, vital union with him.

Kevin DeYoung

#41. Modern society wanted to believe they were living in the information age, when, in fact, they were living in the misinformation age.

Scott Cook

#42. I loved 'Ghana Must Go' by Taiye Selasi. It's about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.

Uzo Aduba

#43. When he feels the world is closing in, he turns his stereo way up high. He just spends his life, living in a rock and roll fantasy.

Ray Davies

#44. I have nightmares that I'm going to wake up, and everyone's driving a Prius and living in a condo, and we're all getting health insurance.

Kid Rock

#45. Eternal joy arises by living in the 'permanent room'. Living in the 'temporary room' gives temporary joy.

Dada Bhagwan

#46. "if you can't adapt yourself to living in a mental hospital how do you expect to be able to live 'out in the world'?" How indeed?

Janet Frame

#47. Using encryption on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging an armored car to deliver credit card information from someone living in a cardboard box to someone living on a park bench.

Gene Spafford

#48. Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

Orson Welles

#49. In the beginning, I aspired just to make a comfortable living in acting. I still feel the same - it's just that my standards have gone up, so my comfort level is higher as well.

Michael Kelly

#50. When I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artistic and sensitive. By 'artistic and sensitive' I mean short, skinny, unkissed, bad at sports, and carrying a C average in high school.

P. J. O'Rourke

#51. But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.

Ted Shackelford

#52. I loved living in Hollywood - and the weather there was just fantastic - but there is something about rural England, and especially Suffolk and Norfolk, that pulls at my heartstrings.

Amanda Donohoe

#53. There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.

Steve Earle

#54. I'm living in L.A. but my heart's in Vancouver.

Nicholas Lea

#55. It is not wrong to want to work and earn a decent living; in fact, God has given work to us. But this legitimate desire can very easily cross the line into greed - especially in our materialistic society.

Billy Graham

#56. I hated L.A. for a long time, and I wanted to leave it. I had these fantasies of going to 'SNL' and falling in love with some writer on 'SNL,' of getting married and living in New York.

Mindy Kaling

#57. Privately, I felt that living in that privileged environment, where her emotions ran unchecked, had made her oversensitive and unstable.

Minae Mizumura

#58. Living in the present is the living in the presence ...

Shri Amma Bhagwan

#59. And so I told him how living in Japan would give him a leisure no mere tourist has, to know the rhythms of the place, a land of tiny poems.

Donna George Storey

#60. If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.

Garth Brooks

#61. I love the house that I've been living in for over 40 years. I really am a homebody and I still love to play golf.

Johnny Mathis

#62. You can work and scratch out a living in the theatre, but, if you want to make money, you've got to hit the road. You've got to play big houses of 2, 3 thousand seaters with your name above the bill, do popular fare and reach out to the audience such as it is.

Maxwell Caulfield

#63. It's very, very difficult because we're living in a world where they invent things in order to hide things from parents. There are these secret creator app guys who make things to intentionally do that, to keep your parents in the dark, and you've really got to work extra-hard to stay on top of it.

Christian Slater

#64. I've been acting since second grade, and I just remember when I first moved to New York and I was living in Washington Heights with three other actors in this tiny apartment and busting my butt to get to the subway, walking to, like, five auditions in a day.

Anna Camp

#65. I just like living in certain atmospheres. Or I just like people as they are.

Patti Smith

#66. People always knock what's new but I love the modern Internet, where cleverness is currency. Social media is a cleverness meritocracy. We're living in it.

Alexei Maxim Russell

#67. Sometimes the best things are the ones that aren't planned, the decisions made while living in the moment.

Jessica Sorensen

#68. If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.

Orlando Bloom

#69. It is indeed as if we were living in a world of zombies and vampires, where each one of us becomes one of them, after being bitten and contaminated with the negative energy of those that already have such nature.

Daniel Marques

#70. Given the choice of living in Los Angeles or living in Sydney, I would choose Sydney.

Matthew Nable

#71. The source calls to you. Find a quiet place and listen for the voice of creation. Look upon the horizon and see the future of your new life, where you are again a natural soul living in joy and peace.

Bryant McGill

#72. Everyone thinks England and America are the same, as we have the same language, but I felt like an alien as an English person living in America.

Jaime Murray

#73. Looking back on months and years of intimacy, to feel that your friend, while you still remember the moving words you exchanged, is yet growing distant and living in a world apart - all this is sadder far than partings brought by death.

Yoshida Kenko

#74. I've never thought about the con of living in New York as a writer. Because I always think, Oh, what fun to be around so many writers. Because I've never been around so many writers.

Victoria Chang

#75. There are portions of Malibu that are very remote; it's like living in the country somewhere.

James Brolin

#76. I wasn't involved in anything. I wasn't out - you know, I know I wasn't in ACT UP. I wasn't with Larry Kramer. I wasn't by his side. I wasn't saying what I should do, because, by all accounts, I was a drug addict and an alcoholic. And I was living in a complete bubble of self-absorption.

Elton John

#77. I blame my parents. It's their fault for raising me with a little guilt-demon living in my stomach. I can't ever just do something without having to worry about whether it's right. Now, don't worry, I can usually overcome it.

Kevin Emerson

#78. There are some people who seem to think that the way you reduce the cost of living in this country is for the state to spend more and more taxpayers' money. It is as if somehow you measure the compassion of the government by the amount of other people's money it can spend.

David Cameron

#79. I'm just living in Eau Claire, not really leaving for much. I go to the farmers market, go to the studio, go home and play with my cats. I don't know if I've ever been this happy, which is really awesome.

Justin Vernon

#80. Growing up and living in England, I'm surrounded by grey skies and sarcasm, so when I came to America, my first impressions were bright, hopeful, cheerful.

Stanley Donwood

#81. We're going to spend our entire future living in tomorrow-investing now, when it's difficult, is the single best moment.

Seth Godin

#82. However, not all sorrow and adversity come as a result of disobedience. Some of the disappointments come from living in a fallen world. Many

Charles F. Stanley

#83. If I had let myself off the hook in college, I could have enjoyed myself a lot more. Knowing that I can't have those years back, I have learned to get the most out of living in the now.

Chris Pine

#84. When those dreams in that unreachable future suddenly rise up around you, how can you not be blinded to their truths? All at once, it is here. All at once, you are living in its very midst. Why then must you seek to pull away? He

Steven Erikson

#85. Living in a small town you couldn't go anywhere on a Saturday where a store had the game on. If you were downtown you heard the game. If you were at the gas station you heard the game. I remember I would be mowing the lawn and I would stop for the Nebraska game. I would have it cranking outside.

Larry The Cable Guy

#86. When I was 14 and living in London, I'd go around Hampton Court Palace with its marvelous atmosphere, through the gateway where Ann Boleyn walked, the haunted gallery down which Katherine Howard ran. It all set me going. It all started from there.

Jean Plaidy

#87. The group of stupid people collectively treats or makes an intelligent amongst them look like duffer and a fool living in a big network of enlightened minds even starts behaving sensibly in life.

Anuj

#88. 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.

Walter Lang

#89. This is precisely why you choose to run for office and get elected. You're asking the people to let you be their voice. I don't think there is a more powerful and intense experience than the opportunity to be the voice of the 307 million people living in this country.

Xavier Becerra

#90. I do feel fortunate to have some knowledge of the great Latin American writers, including some that are probably not that well known in English. I'm thinking of Jose Maria Arguedas, whom I read when I was living in Lima, and who really impacted the way I viewed my country.

Daniel Alarcon

#91. And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.

Margaret Cavendish

#92. I feel like I'm living in a prison. There are so many things I may not experience. I cannot go swimming, can't visit relatives, can't get a job, can't have a boyfriend. I see so much of life I cannot have. I am living in a veritable prison.

Candy Darling

#93. A problem was the lack of cooperation of the Afghan community itself. The women, though living in Iran, were under cover and not willing to participate in the film, and none of the ethnic groups were willing to work together or be together.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#94. Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.

Michael Moore

#95. I wouldn't have minded living in Provence for a month or however long it took for me to learn to say, 'I've been attacked by a wild boar. Help me find my spleen!

Michael J. Fox

#96. Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.

Yoko Ono

#97. If you never encounter anything in your community that offends you, then you are not living in a free society.

Kim Campbell

#98. The reality is, that no matter what you do in this life, it's coming to an end. Once you accept there's nothing that you can do about your own mortality, then you're now free. You have no control, so stop pretending you do. And just get on with living your life. Stop living in fear.

Jeb Corliss

#99. There's one form of immortality I like to think about. It's that all those who from the very first have given anything to the world are living in the world to-day.

Susan Glaspell

#100. When a child is born into this world it has no concept of the tone the skin is living in.

Neneh Cherry