Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.
I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.
Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.
I was living in my lovely little two-bedroom flat in north London... and suddenly, I couldn't just walk down the street and buy a pint of milk.
People shouldn't be living in certain places - on earthquake faults or on flood plains. But they do, and there are consequences.
I'm tired of living in a police state.
I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.
All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.
Miami is one of the great cultural melting pots in the world. I love working and living here.
I've still got family members living below the poverty line in New York.
It is very possible to have lives that are just as prosperous, and nicer, that use 5 percent of the fossil fuels and virgin materials we do now. But if we're living anything like the average McMansion-ite, SUV-driving suburbanites, there's simply no way that can be powered in a climate-friendly way.
From the 1920s into the 1940s, Britain's standard of living was supported by oil from Iran. British cars, trucks, and buses ran on cheap Iranian oil. Factories throughout Britain were fueled by oil from Iran. The Royal Navy, which projected British power all over the world, powered its ships with Iranian oil.
The knowledge that we are responsible for living the life we have is our most powerful tool.
I mean, I could tell that I really had... a precious gift. And I'm so glad that I have followed through with it and really used that gift and nurtured it, honed it, made it sharp and tried to use it as a tool now to make music and to make a living for my family.
We don't ever realize how precious life is while we're living it.
We do not know the precise time of the Second Coming of the Savior, but we do know that we are living in the latter days and are closer to the Second Coming than when the Savior lived his mortal life in the meridian of time.
I've always performed. From the time that I was little, I was pretty precocious and always gravitated toward performing arts. But I was scared at first, deciding to do it for a living. So, initially, I majored in journalism, and I was pretty miserable.
Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.
