Quotes with non-being

Quotes 1141 till 1160 of 1961.

  • Ban Ki-moon Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Of all the infirmities we have, the most savage is to despise our being.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Bernard Cornwell Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • Barack Obama Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Shirley Chisholm Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
    Shirley Chisholm
    American politician, educator, and author (1924 - 2005)
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  • Sam Snead Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.
    Sam Snead
    American professional golfer (1912 - 2002)
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  • Carl Sandburg Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
    Ever the Winds of Chance (1983)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Gertrude Stein Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Lawrence Durrell Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
    Lawrence Durrell
    British Author (1912 - 1990)
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  • Carter Burwell On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.
    Carter Burwell
    American composer of film scores (1954 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman On being shown a relic said to be a bone of St. Elizabeth, he (Sigismund) turned it over and remarked that it could just as well be that of a dead cobbler.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Caroline Knapp On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I can pass an entire day without uttering so much as a hello to another human being. Sometimes a day's conversation consists of only five words, uttered at the local Starbucks: 'Large coffee with milk, please.'
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Avi Arad On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • C. K. Williams One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.
    C. K. Williams
    American poet, critic and translator (1936 - 2015)
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  • Bernard Cornwell One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • Bob Schaffer One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.
    Bob Schaffer
    American politician (1962 - )
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  • Wallace Stevens One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Brock Lesnar One match that really sticks out for me, there's a bunch of matches with all the guys that I worked with. For me, when I got in the ring, I approached it as being real because I was a real character. I didn't have a gimmick name; I didn't have a gimmick finish.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Vilayat Inayat Khan One must be aware that one is continually being tested in what one wishes most in order to make clear whether one's heart is on earth or in heaven.
    Vilayat Inayat Khan
    Teacher of meditation and of the traditions of Sufism (1882 - 1927)
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  • May Sarton One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
    May Sarton
    American poet, novelist, pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (1912 - 1995)
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