- Nov 07, 2020
Living Quotes
On making a life, and making a living.
This set of living quotes includes a sharply critical political opinion, presented here strictly as the quote's own stated view about the administration it describes, alongside a separate observation about how thin the line has become between personal and professional life. Related reflections continue in our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I were living in France, I'd vote for Jacques Chirac, despite the fact that he can't seem to keep his hands out of the cash till.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
The annual stream of tens of thousands of newcomers, who largely end up as illegal aliens, must stop. Full is full. We're living on a small piece of land here.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
- Support
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- Nov 07, 2020
Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was at that time like a fledgling swallow living high up in a niche in the eaves, who from time to time peeps out over the top of its nest with its little bright eyes.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost everybody I know has this sense of overdosing on information and getting dizzy living at post-human speeds.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world cannot live without the Arctic; it affects every living thing on Earth and acts as a virtual thermostat, reflecting sunlight and cooling the planet.
- Diversity
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- Nov 07, 2020
First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence.
- Florist
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to always have flowers in the house. I have a florist in Chinatown, and they deliver orchids every two weeks. I like living with living things.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think John le Carre is, at 77, the greatest living writer alive. He is a master craftsman.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Possibly because I earn my living as a writer of fiction and possibly because it's just the sensible thing to do, I like to pay attention to everything I come across, including things that evoke the uncanny or the mysterious.
- Deja
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in reality occurs. We have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present - deja vu.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly. We were in search of the living.
- Different Worlds
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- Nov 07, 2020
Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere - everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend we're all living in different worlds because we're on different continents.
- Fellow Students
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- Nov 07, 2020
I picked ducks in a tub in my dorm room. I'd hang deer in the doorway between the bedroom and the little living room in our little apartment there, and I'd skin my deer, and all the guts would go in the tub, and I'd sneak them out so my fellow students on both sides wouldn't see all that, you know. I'd clean fish up there and all.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up near King's Cross station in London, living in an apartment block where my dad was a caretaker.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020