Living On Quotes - Page 14

• I do not believe that since man was in the habit of living on this planet anyone has ever lived possessed of the impudence of Jay Gould.

  Jay Gould

  Believe, Men, Habit

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• I guess I am handsome - in certain parts of the world. If I was, like, in Mongolia, living on a mountain and in my village, I could be the hottest guy. In L.A., I'm ... average?

  Bobby Lee

  Average, Guy, Mountain

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• We've gotten so good at growing food that we've gone, in a few generations, from nearly half of Americans living on farms to 2 percent. We no longer think about how the wonderful things in the grocery store got there, and we'd like to go back to what we think is a more natural way.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Thinking, Generations, Gone

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• Down to my last dime and coming apart at the seams. I'm messed up in Mexico, living on refried dreams.

  Tim McGraw

  Dream, Dimes, Mexico

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• Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the music.

  Virgil Thomson

  Writing, Style, Matter

  Virgil Thomson (1984). “A Virgil Thomson reader”, Plume

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• Let us remember that we are all Indians eating Indian grain and salt, and living on the dumb Indian masses.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dumb, Salt, India

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• The propagation of truth and nonviolence can be done less by books than by actually living on those principles.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Book, Principles, Done

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• We have to learn to face our fears and push ourselves. If you're living on earth and you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room. When you push past the fear and realize that what you feared was not a big deal, you gain more confidence.

  Farrah Gray

  Past, Earth, Too Much

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• I am living on hope and faith ... a pretty good diet when the mind will receive them.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Mind, Hope And Faith, Diets

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• The leader of an Earth organization who makes a commitment to history - of humans living on Earth, to begin permanent settlement/occupation of not the moon, but of another planet - this leader will have a legacy for history that will supersede Columbus, Genghis Khan or almost any recognized leader.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Commitment, Moon, Organization

  "Buzz Aldrin Wants To Send People On A One-Way Trip To Mars". Interview with Rebecca Boyle, www.popsci.com. May 7, 2013.

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• Obviously living on the road is pretty hard to stay in shape while you're gone on the road all the time having to eat out three meals a day, just being physically and mentally exhausted.

  Erica Enders-Stevens

  Meals, Three, Gone

  Source: www.draglist.com

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• We are animal. We are Earth. We are water. We are a community of human beings living on this planet together. And we forget that. We become disconnected, we lose our center point of gravity, that stillness that allows us to listen to life on a deeper level and to meet each other in a fully authentic and present way.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Animal, Water, Community

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. February 1, 2005.

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• Continental thinkers have been obsessed with bourgeois man as representing the worst and most contemptible failure of modernity, which must at all costs be overcome. Nihilism in its most palpable sense means that the bourgeois has won, that the future, all foreseeable futures, belong to him, that all heights above him and all depths beneath him are illusory and that life is not worth living on these terms.

  Allan Bloom

  Mean, Men, Nihilism

  "The Closing of the American Mind". Book by Allan Bloom, pp. 157-158, 1987.

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• Tis said that persons living on annuities Are longer lived than others.

  Lord Byron

  Said, Persons

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.52

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• Poetry died as a commercial form and then it died as a serious art form. No one serious touches it. It used to be that somebody like F. Scott Fitzgerald could make a high middle-class income from working as a short story writer for the Saturday Evening Post and other outlets. That doesn't happen anymore. It used to be that a legitimate playwright could make a living on Broadway from writing decent plays.

  William Monahan

  Art, Writing, Class

  Source: collider.com

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• I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.

  Carl Sandburg

  Men, Laughing, World

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• If you are tired of living on the beaten path that everyone else walks, venture into the woods. Some people would be afraid they would get lost, but a confident woman expects to have a new experience that might be outrageously wonderful.

  Joyce Meyer

  Tired, New Experiences, People

  Joyce Meyer (2006). “The Confident Woman: Start Living Boldly and Without Fear”, p.70, Hachette UK

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