"Livable" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... called out all his unused resources of delicacy and diplomacy. When it came to the decoration of the opera house, he called upon Pettingill for assistance, and together they superintended an arrangement which curtained off a large part of the place and reduced it to livable proportions. With the flowers and the lights, the tapestries and the great faded flags, it became something quite different ...
— Brewster's Millions • George Barr McCutcheon
... do a better job in community development—in creating more livable communities, in which all of our children can grow up with fuller access to opportunity and greater immunity to the social evils and blights which now plague so many of our towns and cities. I shall have proposals ...
— State of the Union Addresses of Richard Nixon • Richard Nixon
... remained considerable to be done; May was in full bud and blossom already; and if Athalie was to enjoy the place at all that summer it ought to be made livable. ...
— Athalie • Robert W. Chambers
... do not know, except that in some obscure way it connects the individual with the divine plan, and does not leave him outside in despair and loneliness. However that may be, it will be conceded that a religious conception of some kind does much toward justifying life, toward making it strong and livable, and so has directly to do with certain important problems of illness and health. The most practical medical man will admit that any illness is made lighter and more likely to recover in the presence of hope and serenity in ...
— The Untroubled Mind • Herbert J. Hall
... alter them completely, of course. I foresee myself making the Hall 'livable in' throughout the first decade of my married existence!"—with ...
— The Moon out of Reach • Margaret Pedler
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