Quotes with non-being

Quotes 501 till 520 of 1961.

  • St. Augustine of Hippo Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Seneca Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Marguerite Duras Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's the desire of a woman for a man who hasn't yet come to her, whom she doesn't yet know. She's faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Samuel Butler From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Bill Mumy From the age of four, I was a huge comic fan and still am. When Lost in Space came along it was like being in a huge comic so we jumped at the chance of being part of that project and it proved to be a good choice.
    Bill Mumy
    American actor and musician (1954 - )
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  • Brendon Urie From the first time I heard Bob Marley or even Sublime, I wanted to move out to California and be near the ocean, start surfing, start being a part of that whole thing.
    Brendon Urie
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1987 - )
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  • Carl Safina From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily managed, we're gotten ourselves into this sort of apocalyptic time. We're willing to destroy almost everything, risk almost anything, and go ahead with techniques for which we have no way of responding to the known problems.
    Carl Safina
    American ecologist and author (1955 - )
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  • William Hazlitt Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Bob Graham Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq - a war more than a year away.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Bill Cosby George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Kin Hubbard Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • John Berger Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Becki Newton Glamour is fun! Spending time to get ready isn't about being fussy; it's about taking care of myself.
    Becki Newton
    American actress (1978 - )
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  • Meister Eckhart God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.
    Meister Eckhart
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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  • Joyce Cary God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.
    Joyce Cary
    Irish novelist (1888 - 1957)
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  • Bill Bailey God save our gracious Queen: Why would we invoke a non-specific deity to bail out these unelected spongers?
    Part Troll
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Billy Graham God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Ayn Rand God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Bridget Moynahan Going through that traumatic time of being heartbroken and then being pregnant turned my whole life upside down and inside out and just knocked the wind out of me. But I got so much out of that.
    Bridget Moynahan
    American actress and model (1971 - )
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