Quotes: Living

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.

Eventually I did that, but it took a lot of twists and turns, and there were a year or two there where I was living with no money at all – no home, no car, no nothing. I was living in somebody’s garage in Los Angeles at that point – for a year.

Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul ‘prays in us with unspeakable groanings’.

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.

Cricket was my reason for living.

He helped make Living Things even more crazy than I wanted it to be. He added old-fashioned piano and classical folk music – that weird otherworldly vibe – all these elements got onto the record.