Living

Famous quotes containing the word living:

    If he from heaven that filched that living fire
    Condemned by Jove to endless torment be,
    I greatly marvel how you still go free
    That far beyond Prometheus did aspire
    Michael Drayton (1563–1631)

    When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing—deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
    John Galsworthy (1867–1933)

    For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon’s teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
    John Milton (1608–1674)