#livin

So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#american revolution #claim #concerned #condition #economic

But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#fear #franciscans #live #living #mean

'I don't want to grow up,' Tom Waits said it. I live it. I put myself in a position to be a kid as long as I want to. I play loud music and scream for a living. ↗

— Jason Newsted

#grow up #i #kid #live #living

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form - not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living. ↗

— William Nicholson

#after #among #another #because #business

Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living. ↗

— Gilbert Parker

#day #death #dies #easily #every

One of the difficulties in living the lifestyle I lead is that it is hard to get my friends in one place. ↗

— Sean Parker

#friends #get #hard #i #lead

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. ↗

— S. J. Perelman

#century #learning #living #most #will

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read. ↗

— Ross Perot

#action #author #being #contemplation #good

To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#feel #felt #lived #living #lost

Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health? ↗

— Petrarch

#any #blessing #dangerous #desire #found