Quotes with being

Quotes 1701 till 1720 of 1877.

  • Bob Brown We people of the Earth exist because our potential was there in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as the universe exploded into being.
    Bob Brown
    Australian politician, medical doctor and environmentalist (1944 - )
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  • Bernard Lown We physicians who shepherd human life from birth to death have a moral imperative to resist with all our being the drift toward the brink. The threatened inhabitants on this fragile planet must speak out for those yet unborn, for posterity has no lobby with politicians.
    Nobel Peace Prize acceptance
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  • Dwight L. Moody We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Bruce Dickinson We tread a fine line between taking ourselves seriously and being Spinal Tap.
    Tobler, John (1992)
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Lionel Trilling We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • Mary Daly We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us. One does not rape a sister.
    Mary Daly
    American radical feminist philosopher, academic, and theologian (1928 - 2010)
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  • Bryant Gumbel We've got an awful lot to talk about this week, including the sexual harassment suit against the President. Of course, in that one, it's a little tough to figure out who's really being harassed.
    Bryant Gumbel
    American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Al Franken Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.
    Al Franken
    American comedian, politician and author (1951 - )
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  • Benjamin Bratt Well, for me, the real excitement of doing physical things in films, whether you're talking about a fight scene or a stunt sequence or even a love scene, for that matter, is by necessity it has to be choreographed very much like a dance. That being said, you have to rehearse it over and over again and find a mathematical precision.
    Benjamin Bratt
    American actor, producer, and activist (1963 - )
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  • Ann Patchett Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.
    Ann Patchett
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Bruce Davison Well, I always try to look at my characters as being better than I am. That's one of the reasons I guess I became an actor - because you get to create a persona that's bigger or better or more interesting than your own.
    Bruce Davison
    American actor and director (1946 - )
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  • Bill Griffith Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut.
    Bill Griffith
    American cartoonist (1944 - )
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  • Abraham Cowley What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Dan Quayle What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
    Dan Quayle
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Hermann Hesse What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men - each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature - are shot down wholesale.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard What I do is not go outside. My hobby is that I write, so if I'm not acting or being a mom, I'm writing.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Billy Martin What I miss when I'm away is the pride in baseball. Especially the pride of being on a team that wins.
    Billy Martin
    American Major League Baseball player and manager (1928 - )
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  • Abbe Pierre What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
    Abbe Pierre
    French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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