#iving

Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#also #because #build #contain #live

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred. ↗

— M. Kathleen Casey

#breasts #consistency #enduring #hatred #kindled

There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#had #humiliating #law #mainly #means

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#itself #life #living #meaning #meaning of

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me. ↗

— Camillo di Cavour

#believe #deceiving #diplomats #discovered #i

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#comes #ever #families #forgiving #only

And I was the only black kid in my school for almost all of my childhood, until I was a teenager. So imagine, if you will, being 6 feet tall by third grade, so essentially being a living maypole. ↗

— Aisha Tyler

#being #black #childhood #essentially #feet

I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

#becomes #beginning #certain #certain way #eventually

The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest. ↗

— Milovan Djilas

#come #living #own #part #rarest

And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That's why I love it so much. ↗

— Fay Godwin

#breathing #breathing thing #changes #character #day