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La seule diffe rence incontestable n'est pas celle des sexes ou des a" ges ou des forces, mais celle des vifs et des morts. The only incontestable difference isnot that of sexorage or strength, but that of the living and the dead.
He le' ne Cixous— 1969 Dedans.
Painters of history make the dead live, and do not begin to livethemselvestill theyare dead.Ipaint the living, and they make me live!
Godfrey Kneller— When asked why he preferred portraits to more prestigious history scenes. Quoted in A Cunningham The Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1829).
For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn— 1979 In the Listener,15 Feb.
The land of the living was not far removed from the domain of the ancestors. There was coming and going between them, especially at festivals and also when an old man died, because an old man was very close to the ancestors. A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors.
chinua achebe— Chapter 13 (p. 115)
I ... allowed my memory to journey back to the days when I was a boy of ten, full of health and optimism, when my wonder at the great game of living had yet to give way to disillusionment at its shabbiness.
ruskin bond— The Garlands on His Brow
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
bernard crick— A Footnote To Rally Fellow Socialists, p. 240
O, for a living faith in a living Redeemer!
richard fuller— P. 233. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
I have always really liked Tom Jones and I can't wait to see him in action. One thing is for sure, I would rather be singing for a living than getting punched on the head.
ricky hatton— Ricky Hatton reveals he has two front row tickets for a Tom Jones concert [4]
If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?
kay redfield jamison— Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
"I believe in nonviolence as a way of life, as a way of living."
john lewis— Academy of Achievement web site (url accessed on October 22, 2008)
I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last with praise, I will at last have the people who understand me, those mine, the true family to be born in and be loved. [...] I will only be understood in effigy, when affection no longer repays the dead the unaffection that was, when living.
fernando pessoa— Original: Penso as vezes, com um deleite triste, que se um dia, num futuro a que eu já não pertença, estas frases, que escrevo, durarem com louvor, eu terei enfim a gente que me "compreenda", os meus, a família verdadeiro para nela nascer e ser amado. [...] Serei compreendido só em efígie, quando a afeição já não compense a quem morreu a só desafeição que houve, quando vivo.
— Ibid., p. 182
I do not want to heap coals of fire on anyone's head, but I would like to advise those who keep the living thought of the dead hidden away in cardboard boxes, to pass on as quickly as possibly such explosive material, whose only legitimate heir is the whole world, that is to say, my neighbor.
pierre schaeffer— The Old Man and His Movements (Times Press, 1964)
I think the best thing is being able to play golf competitively for a living. Ever since I was a little boy, that's something I've always wanted to do, and now I get a chance to live out my dreams.
tiger woods— [3]
In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou 'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, Hast so much wit and mirth and spleen about thee, There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
joseph addison— Spectator, No. 68.
That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as though no God there were.
Robert Browning— Part 1. (Paracelsus (1835))
It is, of course, a common prejudice that censorship is bad for art and therefore always unjustified: though, if this were so, mankind would have little in the way of an artistic heritage and we should now be living in an artistic golden age.
anthony daniels— What’s Wrong with Twinkling Buttocks? (Summer 2003)
A lot of the people who live here [Miami] are island people -- from Cuba, Haiti. People are very vibrant, and color is important living here. You're inspired every day by the sun, the sky, the landscape, the lushness. [Artist Romero Britto's] painting and artwork reflect that.
gloria estefan— www.nytimes.com (February 2, 2007)
Someone trying to live well would seem eccentrically abstemious in most of the US. That phenomenon is only going to become more pronounced. You can probably take it as a rule of thumb from now on that if people don't think you're weird, you're living badly.
paul graham— "The Acceleration of Addictiveness", July 2010
I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman’s mind to be more like my own than any other man’s living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.
gerard manley hopkins— Letter to Robert Bridges (October 18, 1882)
To learn about onsefl, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute.
jiddu krishnamurti— 4th Public Talk, Bombay (Mumbai), India (17 February 1971)
Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad. Things like these neither elevate nor degrade; and therefore they are no more good than they are evil.
marcus aurelius— II, 11. (Book II)
Got my ticket at the airport Well I guess I've been marking time I've been living in another country That operates along entirely different lines Keep me away from porter or whiskey Don't play anything sentimental it'll make me cry I've got to go back my friend Is there really any need to ask why?
van morrison— Got to Go Back
There ought to be a million-person march on the Mall... that can be heard in the living quarters of the White House.
arlen specter— On President Bush's potential veto of a new bill on stem-cell research. (January 9, 2007) [3]
It is characteristic of the barbarian … to insist upon seeing a thing “as it is.” The desire testifies that he has nothing in himself with which to spiritualize it; the relation is one of thing to thing without the intercession of the imagination. Impatient of the veiling with which the man of higher type gives the world imaginative meaning, the barbarian and the Philistine, who is the barbarian living amid culture, demands the access of immediacy. Where the former wishes representation, the latter insists upon starkness of materiality, suspecting rightly that forms will mean restraint.
richard weaver— p. 24 (Ideas have Consequences (1948))
If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and give for the good of others, and so know the highest pleasure that wealth can give.
— A Dictionary of Thoughts, p. 623.
According to Gould and Eldredge, the reason why so many links are missing is that they simply do not exist. They take the view that biological evolution proceeds in successive stages of "punctuated equilibrium." living species would remain unchanged for extremely long stretches of time, and then undergo profound changes in relatively short periods. To borrow a term from the quantum theory of atoms, evolution would occur in "quantum jumps." It is very likely that the spark of life appeared during the first such "jump."
niles eldredge— Trinh Xuan Thuan, Chaos and Harmony (2001)
living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.
— Syd Barrett, in A Very Irregular Head: The Life of Syd Barrett, Da Capo Press, 26 October 2010, p.311
