Pastoral Resources

I did it for a living, made a career out of it, but now I've turned it into somewhat of a hobby.

We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.

There are many who are living far below their possibilities because they are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do you want to be a power I the world? Then be yourself.

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.

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.

The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.

I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.

Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living.

So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.

I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.

I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.

What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.

I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted.

There are still women who are not living their own lives, but living through their men or their children.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I've achieved since then is above and beyond.

There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth.

Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.

I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns.

A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.