Quotes with man-being

Quotes 5841 till 5860 of 6261.

  • Jiddu Krishnamurti When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.
    Jiddu Krishnamurti
    Indian theosophist (1895 - 1986)
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Ernest Becker When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.
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  • Henry Fielding When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Barbara Taylor Bradford When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.
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  • Carter G. Woodson When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Baltasar Gracian When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Cate Blanchett When you go to a concert, part of being there is that you're all hearing the same thing. It's about being in a crowd. If you go to a gig and there are two people there, then it's not the same thing.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Winston Churchill When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Carrie-Anne Moss When you play a doctor, you have to look like you can do it but you don't actually go and do it. It's not like you learn how to cut open somebody and go do surgery. You have to think of a human being and not play the idea of what that would look like.
    Carrie-Anne Moss
    Canadian actress (1967 - )
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  • Billy Collins When you put a poem on a Kindle, the lines are broken in order to fit on the screen. And so instead of being the poet's decision, it becomes the device's decision.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Russell Hoban When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?
    Russell Hoban
    American writer (1925 - 2011)
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  • Georges Bernanos When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep!
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • C. P. Snow When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find that far more, and far more hideous, crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
    Source: Public Affairs
    C. P. Snow
    English novelist (1905 - 1980)
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  • Britney Spears When you tour, it's so hard on the body. Being in one place is cool. It's a more stable environment.
    Britney Spears
    American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress (1981 - )
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  • Ann Coulter When you try to figure out what the religious right is, it ultimately comes down either to one man, Pat Robertson, or anyone who believes in a higher being and wants their taxes cut.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Barkhad Abdi When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.
    Barkhad Abdi
    Somali–American actor and director (1985 - )
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  • Charles Dickens When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Bel Powley When you're a teenager, your essence is so specific to being a teenager, and everything becomes so extreme. Your emotions are on the surface, and you oscillate between different things at one time.
    Bel Powley
    English actress (1992 - )
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  • Carl Hiaasen When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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