Quotes with being

Quotes 601 till 620 of 1877.

  • Rosa Parks I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.
    Rosa Parks
    American activist in the civil rights movement (1913 - 2005)
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  • Alan Parsons I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.
    Alan Parsons
    English audio engineer, songwriter, musician (1948 - )
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  • Andrew Wiles I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Pierre de Beaumarchais I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.
    Pierre de Beaumarchais
    French playwright (1732 - 1799)
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  • Lord George Byron I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now and then, but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive - besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Vikram Seth I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
    Vikram Seth
    Indian novelist and poet (1952 - )
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  • Mahatma Gandhi I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Henry Miller I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Anne McCaffrey I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Blaise Pascal I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Lee Iacocca I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.
    Lee Iacocca
    American businessman and CEO of Chrysler (1924 - 2019)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Jefferson I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Bert Williams I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.
    Bert Williams
    American entertainer and comedian (1874 - 1922)
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  • Daniel Boone I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.
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  • Astrid Lindgren I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.
    Astrid Lindgren
    Swedish children's book and novelist (1907 - 2002)
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  • Edith Wharton I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Agnes Smedley I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Leonard Cohen I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jackie Kennedy. She is, to my mind, a very gallant lady, victimized by whoever it is who designs the tops of her uniforms.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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