Livelihood
Subsistence or living, as dependent on some means of support; support of life; maintenance.
Liveliness; appearance of life.
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Subsistence,
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Livelihood Quotations
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
Bertrand Russell
The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?
Clara Zetkin
The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
Rafael Palmeiro
But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.
Little Richard
I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I certainly have respect for those who make music their livelihood.
Brendan Fraser
But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.
Anita Roddick
Let us hope that for many it does mean the end of trouble so far as earning a livelihood is concerned, that it means happy and comfortable home living honestly earned. But there are other troubles ahead for her, and plenty of hard work.
Florenz Ziegfeld
If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance.
Trevor Nunn
No, but Liza took went and took away from me, possibly my livelihood.
David Gest
Livelihood Translations
livelihood in German is Unterhalt, Lebensunterhalt
livelihood in Spanish is sustento
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