Quotes with non-being

Quotes 41 till 60 of 1961.

  • Aristotle I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Anni-Frid Lyngstad I like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion.
    Anni-Frid Lyngstad
    Norwegian-Swedish singer and environmentalist
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  • Lord George Byron I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Iris Murdoch I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Bill Bailey I tried to like it. For me, it was like being smacked around the head by a piece of IKEA furniture: it hurts, but you've got to admire the workmanship.
    Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Joseph Addison I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Ben Elton I'm lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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  • Camille Paglia If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Harold S. Geneen It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.
    Harold S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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  • Anne Rice It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Pat Barker It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain.
    Pat Barker
    British writer (1943 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Mother Teresa Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Buddha Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred - this is the law of eternal.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Samuel Johnson No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food and commonly better company.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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