#living

I hate a word like "pets": it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own. ↗

— Elizabeth Jennings

#i #like #living #much #own

For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities. ↗

— Derrick Jensen

#because #become #deplorable #each #especially

Just do the math. In the next 50 to 75 years, people will be living to be 130 and 140. They'll be working until they're 100. It's incredible. ↗

— Willard Scott

#just #living #math #next #people

How much more must this be so in my own case for I am conscious not only of the great names and achievements of those who have preceded me, but also of the living presence of many of my masters and teachers. ↗

— Cecil Frank Powell

#also #am #case #conscious #great

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out. ↗

— Stephen King

#because #brought #diminish #feelings #get

Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the whole time that you're talking. Convinced that you're living whole time that I'm dying. ↗

— Tegan Quin

#death #dying #sara-quin #tegan-and-sara #tegan-quin

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth. ↗

— Lewis H. Lapham

#cemetery #gallery #i #living #metropolitan

Cricket was my reason for living. ↗

— Harold Larwood

#living #reason

I'm actually living my life with the material I choose to work with. ↗

— Ang Lee

#choose #i #life #living #material

Real living is living for others. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#others #real