Quotes with being

Quotes 761 till 780 of 1877.

  • Bridget Moynahan If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.
    Bridget Moynahan
    American actress and model (1971 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself there.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bernard Meltzer If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.
    Bernard Meltzer
    American professor (1916 - 1998)
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Thomas Carlyle If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • C. K. Williams If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, you're wasting it.
    C. K. Williams
    American poet, critic and translator (1936 - 2015)
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  • Gabriel Heatter If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.
    Gabriel Heatter
    American radio commentator and journalist (1890 - 1972)
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  • Malcolm X If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Casey Stengel If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • James Baldwin If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Bob Corker If your focus in life is on being productive, when things are not happening... one has to ask oneself, 'Is this worth a grown man's time?'
    Bob Corker
    American businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Mohsin Hamid If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy.
    Mohsin Hamid
    British Pakistani novelist, writer (1971 - )
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  • Alexander Pope If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Bill Flores Imagine having all of your freedoms taken away, being forced to work against your will, and constantly living under the threat of violence - in short, being forced to live as a slave. Sadly, this situation is a reality for millions of children, women, and men each year as part of the global human trafficking industry.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Albert Schweitzer Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Bill Gross Imperceptibly, the developed world's manufacturing base was gradually eroding and being replaced by securitized finance that destroyed itself and nearly its economies in 2008.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Assata Shakur Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Boris Johnson In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?
    Boris Johnson on South Bank for Barclays Cycle Hire launch, London SE1, 30 July 2010
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Brad Feld In 2013, when Google announced that Kansas City would be the first city in the country to have Google Fiber, I bought a house in the first neighborhood that was being wired up with Google's gigabit Internet.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot In a different era, I would have called myself a natural philosopher. All my life, I have enjoyed the reputation of being someone who disrupted prevailing ideas. Now that I'm in my 80th year, I can play on my age and provoke people even more.
    New Scientist interview
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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