Quotes with being

Quotes 1321 till 1340 of 1877.

  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Eric Berne The destiny of every human being is decided by what goes on inside his skull when confronted by what goes on outside his skull.
    Eric Berne
    Canadian-born psychiatrist (1910 - 1970)
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  • Ajay Devgan The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end.
    Ajay Devgan
    Indian film actor and director (1969 - )
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  • Norman Mailer The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Archibald Macleish The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Bill Griffith The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
    Bill Griffith
    American cartoonist (1944 - )
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  • Stephen Hawking The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Carol Bellamy The dream of the Convention was born from the that children and their needs were not been considered when policies were being made, laws passed or actions undertaken.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Beau Willimon The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The emphasis on sorcery reflected accusations by the authorities more than it did actual practice. Being threatened, the Church responded by virulent persecution.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Vi Putnam The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one other person.
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  • Anatole Broyard The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.
    Anatole Broyard
    American writer, literary critic, and editor (0 - 1990)
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  • George Orwell The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Bertrand Russell The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Edwin H. Land The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
    Edwin H. Land
    American scientist and inventor (0 - 1991)
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  • Vilayat Inayat Khan The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return
    Vilayat Inayat Khan
    Teacher of meditation and of the traditions of Sufism (1882 - 1927)
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  • Jalal-Uddin Rumi The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and become manifest to me in His essence. I saw I existed through Him.
    Jalal-Uddin Rumi
    Persian poet (1207 - 1273)
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  • Norman Cousins The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
    Human Options (1981)
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Andrew Cohen The excitement that you were feeling about a special, unique path for yourself as a woman is all part of your identification with and attachment to being female. And that's ultimately all ego.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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