Quotes with man-being

Quotes 5401 till 5420 of 6261.

  • Jean de la Fontaine To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • Bethany Hamilton To lose your everyday life of surfing and being creative on waves, enjoying the ocean - that's scary to me. It was essential to at least try surfing again and get out there and see how it went.
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • Alphonse de Lamartine To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
    Alphonse de Lamartine
    French poet, statesman and historian (1790 - 1869)
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  • Marguerite Duras To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead - somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man - somewhere these, too, come together.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Lao-Tzu To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    American suffragist, abolitionist and women's rights activist (1815 - 1902)
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  • Plutarch To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Simone de Beauvoir To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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  • Jacob Bronowski To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
    Jacob Bronowski
    British Scientist, Author (1908 - 1974)
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  • Billy West To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff - so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots.
    Billy West
    American voice actor and musician (1952 - )
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  • Bo Bennett To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.
    Year to Success
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Billy Corgan To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.
    In: Stapleton, Jim. Smashing Pumpkins (1996)
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.
    Adlai Stevenson
    American politician and vice president (1835 - 1914)
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  • Malcolm Stevenson Forbes To measure the man, measure his heart.
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  • John Gray To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.
    John Gray
    American relationship counselor, lecturer and author (1948 - )
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  • Bruce Feirstein To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.
    Bruce Feirstein
    American screenwriter and humorist (1956 - )
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Georges Bataille To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • John Selden To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we run after him again to save us.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • Thomas Malthus To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
    An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) V, 25, 4-5
    Thomas Malthus
    English cleric and scholar (1766 - 1834)
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