#living

We are living in a different world now. You can see it everywhere in international relations: It was noteworthy that, after his visit to Washington, the Chinese president's next stop was Saudi Arabia. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#arabia #chinese #different #different world #everywhere

A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology. ↗

— Robert Trout

#basic #characterized #discoveries #factories #generating

I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people. ↗

— Bobby Vinton

#because #big #big band #everyone #i

You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#bright #canada #ever #fellow #i

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. ↗

— Voltaire

#gave #gift #give #god #life

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth. ↗

— Voltaire

#dead #living #only #owe #truth

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. ↗

— Voltaire

#expectation #live #living #never

You know, this is a business where only 15% make a living wage and only 9% of those are women. But I figured somebody has to be that 15%, somebody's got to be one of those women. ↗

— Marcia Wallace

#figured #got #i #know #living

I went into rehab December 14th, 1996, and got out eight months later? Then I went into a sober living place where I stayed for three months. I've been clean for a good year and a half. ↗

— Marc Wallice

#clean #december #eight #good #got

We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#children #day #god #got #half