Quotes with being-we

Quotes 541 till 560 of 1877.

  • Anne Hutchinson How did Abraham know that it was God that bid him offer his son, being a breach of the sixth commandment?
    Anne Hutchinson
    American religious reformer and activist
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  • George Washington Carver How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all these.
    George Washington Carver
    American botanist and inventor (1864 - 1943)
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  • Alan Watts How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Edith Wharton How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Anna Freud How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me.
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • Alice James How sick one gets of being ''good,'' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.
    Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Christopher Leach Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.
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  • Jane Austen Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Stokely Carmichael I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that. Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me.
    Stokely Carmichael
    American activist (1941 - 1998)
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  • Alice Hoffman I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
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  • Bill Murray I always like to say to people who want to be rich and famous, try being rich first. See if that doesn't cover most of it.
    I know how to be sour, The Guardian, December 2003
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • Ovid I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Winston Churchill I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Winston Churchill I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Henry Kissinger I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
    Henry Kissinger
    American politician (1923 - 2023)
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  • Buzz Aldrin I am excited to think that the development of commercial capabilities to send humans into low Earth orbit will likely result in so many more Earthlings being able to experience the transformative power of space flight.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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