Subsisting Quotes

#1. I believe that the devil has destroyed many good books of the church, as, aforetime, he killed and crushed many holy persons, the memory of whom has now passed away; but the Bible he was fain to leave subsisting.

Martin Luther

#2. The Master said, "What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and water - other people could not have borne such hardship, and yet it never spoiled Hui's joy. What a worthy man was Hui!"
(Analects 6.11)

Confucius

#3. I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee. I testify, at this moment, to my powerlessness and to Thy might, to my poverty and to Thy wealth. There is none other God but Thee, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.

Baha'u'llah

#4. We want to make an impact on the world, but we end up making or selling playthings that are developed to keep us distracted and designed to deconstruct. We have turned the activities that were meant to be the stuff of life into mere means of subsisting in it.

Susan Neiman

#5. Subsisting on a diet drawn from one food group isn't healthy or gratifying. Even eating cupcakes 24/7 eventually would get old!

Jenna McCarthy

#6. Names I am most commonly called by telemarketers: Simone, Slain, Siobhan, Flo, Stacey, Susan, Slater, Leanne, and Slow (Yes, my parents named me "Slow". That's because they hate me and made me sleep in the linen closet subsisting only on bath salts and Scope).

Sloane Crosley

#7. Life is too short and the world too compassion-starved for you to keep subsisting in situations that drag you down and curtail your potential to help advance the Kingdom. There's just too much at stake.

Bill Hybels

#8. In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking me.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

#9. What do you do when you're living in a hut for $500 a month and subsisting on Boston Market and Subway? You just keep doing what you're doing.

Sophia Amoruso

#10. Someone once told me the definition of hell; on your last day on earth, the person you could have become will meet the person you became.

Anonymous

#11. An important thing to remember about the press is there is no ideological bias

Jon Meacham

#12. War is the mass murder of workers. When workers refuse to obey the calls of their governments, there will be no more war.

Keir Hardie

#13. Less isn't more; just enough is more.

Milton Glaser

#14. Any time the president talks, you listen.

Ben Nelson

#15. I wish I could say confidently that pacing remains my weak point, if you could talk about your own stuff without sounding like you're self-obsessed. But I think you kind of have to be.

Kelly Sue DeConnick

#16. Animal protection is education to the humanity.

Albert Schweitzer

#17. Work made me more streetwise because you can be so sheltered at home. I'd definitely encourage my kids Lillie and Karl, who are nine and seven, to get Saturday jobs in the future.

Rebecca Ferguson

#18. The actual and potential harm of use of the drug is not great enough to justify intrusion by the criminal law into private behavior, a step which our society takes only 'with the greatest reluctance'.

Raymond P. Shafer

#19. I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.

Peter Jennings

#20. You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.

Karen Bass