Quotes with being-we

Quotes 141 till 160 of 1877.

  • Samuel Johnson Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Satchel Paige Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.
    Satchel Paige
    African-American baseball player (1906 - 1982)
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Charles Baudelaire All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Anita Brookner All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • William Mathews All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.
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  • Jean de la Bruyère All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Bill Medley All my memories of being in Las Vegas with Bobby were great. Frank Sinatra brought us to the Sands Hotel in 1965. When we worked that lounge, it was a great lounge. I think it was bigger than the showroom. We were two 25-year-old dumb kids from Orange County in Las Vegas with The Rat Pack.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Bell Hooks All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Barbara Deming All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Bruce Cockburn All the diamonds in this world
    That mean anything to me
    Are conjured up
    by wind and sunlight sparkling on the sea
    I ran aground in a harbor town
    Lost the taste for being free
    Thank God he sent some gull chased ship
    To carry me to sea...
    Salt,Sun and Time (1974) All the Diamonds in the World, Track 1
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Abraham H. Maslow All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Baruch Spinoza All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.
    On the Improvement of the Understanding
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Bryan Robson All the stuff about being a drinking club, or having players who were not good enough, I treat as rubbish.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • Ovid All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Andrew Cohen Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • A. A. Milne Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Carrie Fisher Along with aging comes life experience, so in every way that is consistent with even being human, Leia has changed.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • C. S. Forester Although she herself was ill enough to justify being in bed had been a person weak-minded enough to give up, Rose Sawyer could see that her brother, the Reverend Samuel Sayer, was far more ill.
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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