Quotes with being

Quotes 521 till 540 of 1877.

  • Samuel Johnson He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Oscar Wilde He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Napoleon He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Bob Dylan He who is not busy being born is busy dying.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Oliver Cromwell He who stops being better stops being good.
    Oliver Cromwell
    Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England (1599 - 1658)
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  • Ernest Renan He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.
    Ernest Renan
    French writer and critic (1823 - 1892)
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  • Arthur Miller He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Saki He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
    Saki
    British writer, pen name of Hugh Munro (1870 - 1916)
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  • Billy Sunday Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Blake Farenthold Historically, the Justice Department has been Congress' ally in fighting wrongdoing in government, but under this Justice Department and Eric Holder, rather than being the people's attorney, Eric Holder sees himself as the president's attorney and he'll do anything to defend the president.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Box Brown Honestly, I try to think about when I first got into wrestling, and I remember Wrestle Mania VI being the first time that I watched Wrestle Mania as it happened.
    Box Brown
    American cartoonist
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  • Bret Easton Ellis Hope E. L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Erik H. Erikson Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.
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  • Bill Flores House Speaker Paul Ryan has actually started using a phrase lately - 'Raise our gaze.' He's exactly right, too. That's what I'd like to see in a presidential candidate. I don't like the bricks being thrown back and forth. That's not inspiring to me and to most of our electorate, I think.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Marcelene Cox Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.
    Marcelene Cox
    American author
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  • Oscar Wilde How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Auberon Herbert How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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