Quotes with being

Quotes 161 till 180 of 1877.

  • Ben Jonson Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back;
    And is a swelling, and the last affection
    A high mind can put off; being both a rebel
    Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth
    All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion,
    and offereth violence to nature's self.
    Catiline His Conspiracy
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Billy Graham America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest number of artificial amusements of any country. People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves. They have to pay other people to amuse them, to make them laugh, to try to make them feel warm and happy and comfortable for a few minutes, to try to lose that awful, frightening, hollow feeling-that terrible, dreaded feeling of being lost and alone.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Ida P. Rolf An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold An honor is not diminished for being shared.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Richard Bach An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Don Marquis An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Samuel Smiles An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Carol Moseley Braun And frankly, being a woman I think gives me a slightly different take on a lot of the issues and on a lot of the solutions to the problems we face.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Bret Harte And he says that the mountains are fairer For once being held in your thought;
    East and West Poems, Part I His Answer to Her Letter
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Bob Schieffer And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience - I came to understand that you have to practice at being a good father and practice at being a good husband, just as you have to practice at being a good journalist.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Bob Balaban And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you?ve got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime.
    Bob Balaban
    American actor, author and producer (1945 - )
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  • Al Franken And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there's all kinds of advantages to it.
    Al Franken
    American comedian, politician and author (1951 - )
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  • Barry McGuire And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Any observations from the Moon or a sense of realising this or that about the greater meaning of things wasn't as influential for me as the experience of coming back and dealing with being a person who's been to the Moon.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Gloria Steinem Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Wayne Dyer Anything that has been accomplished by any other human being in the physical realm is within the field of possibility.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Brett Somers Anything that loosens you up and makes you freer is good, because that's what acting and performing is all about - being free. It gives you a better connection to the audience.
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  • Malcolm X Anytime anyone is enslaved or in any way deprived of his liberty, that person, as a human being, as far as I'm concerned he is justified to resort to whatever methods necessary to bring about his liberty again.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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