Top 100 Living With Quotes
#1. I think a writer is not an ideal husband ... Writers tend to get off into their own heads and not notice the people that they're living with, or they get irritable with the people that they're living with when the people insist on being noticed.
Roy Blount Jr.
#2. What did the child-woman have to say except that she was happy to be living with Hubert--a big, pompous, grasping, scheming, conniving stud who used her at his will and shaped her affections and her tastes and in general raped her spirit.
M.F.K. Fisher
#3. There is his religion of art, my young successor: rejecting life! Not living is what he makes his beautiful fiction out of! And you will now be the person he is not living with!
Philip Roth
#4. Animals represent the abstract notion of acceptance. Living with these funny creatures - you kind of have to accept them. It's like a test in a way.
Shaun Tan
#5. about my experiences while living with a fatigued, pregnant woman. I'm going to entitle it, The Girl with the Draggin' Caboose.
McMillian Moody
#6. Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it.
Nicole Kidman
#8. Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up.
Judith Viorst
#9. At the time I was living with a Mexican woman and it looked as if the relationship would be the death of her, and me, and the neighbors, and sometimes even the people who ventured to pay us a visit.
Roberto Bolano
#10. Raising children with an emphasis on intrinsic rewards is not a technique, a method or a trick to get them to do what the parent wants them to by subtler means, but a way of life, a way of living with children with real respect for their intelligence and for their being.
Mamie Van Doren
#11. Evil had a scent, bitter and pungent, like the scorched earth after a forest fire. I'd been living with the stench long enough to recognize it anywhere.
Lisa Kessler
#12. He needed a manual to navigate living with Soubi.
Suilan Lee
#13. Jesus, Ally, you're living with a stripper?"
"She decided not to do it. She got a job at Hooters instead."
"Oh, well, in that case, I feel much better," he says sarcastically.
Lauren Barnholdt
#14. Stop looking for something when something has already found you. You have been living with your eyes closed. Awaken, it's there. Take it, it's yours.
Robert M. Drake
#15. Living with a single kidney is almost exactly like living with two; the remaining kidney expands to take up the slack. (When kidneys fail, they generally fail together; barring trauma or cancer, there's not much advantage to a backup.) The main risk to the donor is the risk of any surgery.
Virginia Postrel
#16. The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies. Living consciously is living with a core of healthy self-esteem. You will face reality, you will not delude yourself.
Bell Hooks
#17. The love for a child is more an unconditional sort of love ... Although some parents are really narcissistic. In general, I think there is an expectation that love will be unconditional, but obviously it's not - even after living with someone for years.
Kim Gordon
#18. When you are the avatar for the writer/director, a lot of times, I just trusted him. If he had a choice, even if it wasn't necessarily what was my first impulse, I was like, "This guy [Billy Ray] has been living with this for two years before I even came on board, so I'm going with him."
Matt Bomer
#19. All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.
Tommy Lee Jones
#20. When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, 'Don't get comfortable, because we may not be here long.'
LeBron James
#22. Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences.
Jennifer Armintrout
#24. It's easy to make mistakes. It's living with the consequences of them that's the hardest.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#25. What wounds a man mortally is living with a woman,
sharing her bed, and knowing he is not loved. Not even
esteemed. Knowing, that in the eyes of the woman he has
chosen above all others, he is nothing. Nothing at all.
Germaine Shames
#26. Living with integrity means ... behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.
Barbara De Angelis
#27. I think we're supposed to know everything we can figure out. I don't think we're supposed to make up answers just because we can't stand living with unanswered questions.
Ben Logan
#28. Living with depression is like trying to keep your balance while you dance with a goat
it is perfectly sane to prefer a partner with a better sense of balance.
Andrew Solomon
#29. It's hard to imagine which is worse, living with fear, or living without it in a fantasyland were consequences don't exist.
Brooke Hauser
#30. Recognizing beauty isn't optimism. It's living with your eyes open.
Brodi Ashton
#31. You just never know what hurts people are living with, do you? Were all so good at hiding them.
Samantha Young
#32. Our God created us to find fulfillment and joy in doing His work, in serving others, in living with the compassion of Jesus in this world.
Darlene Zschech
#33. But the summer had been a very happy one, too
a time of glad living with summer suns and skies, a time of keen delight in wholesome things; a time of renewing and deepening of old friendships; a time in which she had learned to live more nobly, to work more patiently, to play more heartily.
L.M. Montgomery
#34. Fitness is very important to me because it helps give me a routine when I travel. It gives me one hour of 'me' time and passes the time when I'm lonely. Living with scoliosis serves as a constant reminder to keep my core and back strong. If I get lazy, I feel it in my back first.
Martha Hunt
#35. You have to spend a lot more time on the road these days if you want to make a living with music.
Scott Weiland
#36. I'd also say having Jack's son Chris living with us from his 13th year on helped in raising Rick.
Marie Windsor
#37. We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source of inspiration to those who have the pleasure of living with it.
Arthur Erickson
#38. Living with stress and secrets is both stressful and secretive.
James Dawson
#39. I get sick of that old rationalization, "We're staying together because of the children." Kids couldn't be more miserable living with parents who can't stand each other. They're far better off if there's an honest, clean divorce.
Johnny Carson
#40. Some ghosts haunt you for life. The best you can do is make room on the couch and get used to living with them.
Jay Bell
#41. Building a company is basically taking all the irrational people you know ... Putting them in one building and then living with them 12 hrs a day at least.
Keith Rabois
#42. One of the things I've tried to do with my life is redefine the boundaries that I think are very limiting. I'm not suggesting that everybody should have three girlfriends, or necessarily have girlfriends living with them. I think there are many, many options to living your life.
Hugh Hefner
#43. Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
Saint Augustine
#44. You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
Yoko Ono
#45. The teacher you need is the person you're living with.
Byron Katie
#46. My mother was murdered by my step-father, my brother's father, who was also named Joel, twenty-five years ago. Whatever sadness or burden I've been living with since then, my brother's also been living with, but he's lived with the added burden of having the exact same name as our mother's murderer.
Natasha Trethewey
#47. I am stricken with the peculiar curse of being a 21st-century woman who makes more than the man she's living with - first with a husband for 13 years and now with a new partner.
Sandra Tsing Loh
#48. Everything's the same; I'm living with cancer and it's not going to stop me. But until you really test yourself and challenge yourself, I don't think you quite know.
Robin Roberts
#49. When I go to Africa and spend more time there with people who are the least of the least, those in desperate situations, I am broken by it. But I also find people with so much more joy and freedom living with nothing than I see walking down the streets of my own community here in Tennessee.
Steven Curtis Chapman
#50. My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.
Missy Elliott
#51. God called Abraham and commanded him to go out from the country where he was living. With this call God has roused us all, and now we have left the state. We have renounced all the things the world offers ... The gods of the nations are demons.
Justin Martyr
#52. By the time you arrive at Sundance as a filmmaker, you've been living with your film intimiately, and scrutinized every frame, and probably aren't happy with - or at least I'm never happy with it - and you've seen it in the roughest of states, and you lose perspective, really.
James Ponsoldt
#53. Eventually I did that, but it took a lot of twists and turns, and there were a year or two there where I was living with no money at all - no home, no car, no nothing. I was living in somebody's garage in Los Angeles at that point - for a year.
Renny Harlin
#54. My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.
Jodi Picoult
#55. That won't be necessary. They aren't living with us. They can get their own damn homes. If they want to hang around, they can sit out on the roof and play with their guns.
Christine Feehan
#56. One downside of living with a Were-cheetah is that he purrs when he's happy. At times, the apartment vibrated
all day from MeShack's enjoyment of life.
Kenya Wright
#57. Death was not prejudiced by mortal things such as station or gender. It came for kings and queens and prostitutes alike, often leaving the living with regrets. What might we have done differently if we'd known the end was so near?
Kerri Maniscalco
#58. In Europe, it's common to hear about young professionals living with their parents. With the continent's high rents and taxes and its population density, it makes sense.
Rosecrans Baldwin
#59. I found it hugely insulting that people believed I'd go so far out of my way - living with Playmates, vacationing with actresses, showing up at nightclubs - to act out a lifestyle that would amount to a charade. If I was gay, I'd be gay all the way.
Mike Piazza
#60. I don't have the strength to keep writing this. To go on living with this feeling is painful beyond description. Isn't there someone kind enough to strangle me in my sleep?
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
#61. the challenge of living with popular culture may well be as serious for modern Christians as persecution and plagues were for the saints of earlier centuries.
Ken Myers
#62. I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
Dorothea Lange
#63. You may wonder why I haven't killed myself because living with madness or watching it flood the heart of someone we love is unbearable.
Simon Van Booy
#64. I discovered that being someone you are not is often easier than living with the person you are.
Richard Wagamese
#65. Once I was told that living with me would mean being trapped and slowly asphyxiated.
Jerry Pinto
#66. We never know our good or bad as we loose our judgement living with them.worst part is we don't accept who we are & hence remain confused for the rest of our life.
Gopichand Lagadapati
#67. Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one another, hopefully in positive ways.
Diane Ackerman
#68. That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. It's living with the reality of your own vulnerability, and it sucks.
Dennis Lehane
#69. Actually the best thing I did was to get thrown out by my wife. She's living with a fitness instructor. He drinks that yellow stuff in tins. He's an idiot.
Steve Coogan
#70. We had contests to see who could write the dirtiest limericks while I was living with my father's war-band by the border. I don't particularly enjoy losing, so I took it upon myself to become good at them.
Sarah J. Maas
#71. This is, of course, an easy Berlinian riposte. Start with some graceful hand waving about incommensurability; declare that nothing could reconcile these great goods; and (with a tip of trilby) commend liberal pluralism for living with the contradictions.
Kwame Anthony Appiah
#72. I was a student at SF State, and I honestly didn't know where I was headed. I thought maybe something in the social sciences. But I happened to be living with a group of people, and one person was a film student. I was always keen on and aware of what she was doing.
Lisa Cholodenko
#73. When I'm writing a story, which takes me a year or more, I can feel my character living with me - they're responding to whatever funny, familial, or social situation I'm in, and I think about their responses constantly.
Molly Antopol
#74. He drove a truck because he thought everybody should drive a truck- that driving around in car was like living with your hands tied behind your back
Rainbow Rowell
#75. When you are able to make a living with your job as an artist, that means you have an audience and you have to thank this audience.
Rokia Traore
#76. He's living with artists!" said his mother tearfully to the ambassador. "Oh, leave the boy alone," said the ambassador. "He'll soon get sick of it, like he did of his girlfriend, like he did of crystals, pyramids, incense, and marijuana.
Paulo Coelho
#78. I've decided to aim a telescope at my neighbour's window. It's the closest I'll ever come to living with someone comfortably.
Dov Davidoff
#79. I make a living with a song, and I feel honored to do something I love and believe in.
Jewel
#80. My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we're living with right now.
Byron Katie
#81. what Mr. Bishop talked to Tomas about was living with them and controlling them, as if the ability to start fires with his mind was some kind of large dog Tomas had accidentally adopted and was now going to have to learn to take care of properly, like it or not. He
Mercedes Lackey
#82. These pigeons have been living with each other for 10 or 15 years, but when I throw feed down, they kill each other to get it, and it's the same with the fighters. We love and respect each other ... but we need that money.
Mike Tyson
#83. I loved living with my parents - that's probably why I did it for so long. But it was almost too easy to live there. I had to force myself to get out, had to challenge myself. I had to start a new chapter.
King Tuff
#84. I've been the lowest low on the planet, I've been a sinner all my days. And I was living with my hands on the trigger, I had no sense to change my ways.
Sting
#85. Personally, I believe people who have a lots of memories are people who are living with zest.
Karen Salmansohn
#86. If our gospel does not free the individual up for a unique life of spiritual adventure in living with God daily, we simply have not entered fully into the good news that Jesus brought.
Dallas Willard
#87. I will be living with chronic pain for the rest of my life. I don't have the mobility, energy or life options I used to have. I work hard to manage the pain, and I want the medical system to be a respectful and effective partner, not a jailer. The opioid crisis is not my doing.
Sonya Huber
#88. Fee, fi, fo, fum, I smell the blood of a Christian man, Be he dead, be he living, with my brand, I'll dash his brains from his brain-pan.
Joseph Jacobs
#89. Death may be a one-time event, but living with terminal illness is a process.
Paul Kalanithi
#90. Living with a dog is easy- like living with an idealist.
H.L. Mencken
#91. Living with ADHD is like being locked in a room with 100 Televisions and 100 Radios all playing. None of them have power buttons so you can turn them off and the door is locked from the outside.
Sarah Young
#92. I hope to continue to be an activist for kids and teenagers and especially girls who are living with HIV/AIDS, because all over the world, people don't have the same rights that we do in the United States.
Jenna Bush
#93. What a racially segregated system once taught the young black about living with his inferiority is now taught by a benevolent social welfare system. The difference was that in an earlier age a black parent could fight the competing influences.
Charles A. Murray
#94. The point was living with grace, decency, and attention to the world, and breaking free of the artificial constructs in your own life.
Scott Jurek
#95. This is one secret in living with the loved one. That is, it doesn't try to change the other party.
Jacques Chardonne
#96. More than 10 million Americans are living with cancer, and they demonstrate the ever-increasing possibility of living beyond cancer.
Sheryl Crow
#97. One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.
Marshall McLuhan
#98. Believe me, having a teenage daughter is like living with the Taliban.
Kathy Lette
#99. Maturity implies otherness ... The art of living is the art of living with.
Julius Gordon
#100. I have been extremely lucky; I am a person who is currently living with a cancer that is under control.
Geraldine Ferraro
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