Quotes with non-being

Quotes 1201 till 1220 of 1961.

  • Bow Wow People ask for this life, but they don't really understand what comes with it. People just see the outside and that looks good - big houses, cars, girls, but you never see how the person is feeling deep down inside. Me personally, being a man, I'm going to feel better displaying all of this and pouring my heart out on each record.
    Bow Wow
    American rapper and actor (Shad Gregory Moss) (1987 - )
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  • Samuel Butler People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Bill Keller People crave trustworthy information about the world we live in. Some people want it because it is essential to the way they make a living. Some want it because they regard being well-informed as a condition of good citizenship. Some want it because they want something to exchange over dinner tables and water coolers.
    Bill Keller
    American journalist (1949 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • T. S. Eliot People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Carl Lewis People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Bill Hicks People in the U.K. share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself. They have a sense of irony, which America doesn't have, seeing as it's being run by fundamentalists who take things literally.
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Bob Weinstein People intrinsically know there are secrets being held from us. Look at WikiLeaks: There are secrets that are really true to the world.
    Bob Weinstein
    American film producer (1954 - )
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  • Bernard Mandeville People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Walter Lippmann People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Bode Miller People think coming in under the radar is like being a fighter pilot and actually coming in under the radar. It's a completely ridiculous idea to come in under the radar. It's the Olympics; everyone is on the radar here.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Brent Spiner People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite.
    Brent Spiner
    American actor, comedian and singer (1949 - )
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  • Bob Dylan People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Marcel Proust People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Stephen R. Covey People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally ''being lived.'' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Vaclav Havel People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Barry Schwartz People who work in financial services don't have one shred of concern about the well-being of the people they serve. They're only interested in themselves.
    Barry Schwartz
    American psychologist (1946 - )
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  • Henry Morgan People with insufficient personalities are fond of cats. These people adore being ignored.
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  • John Updike Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Philip Larkin Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
    Philip Larkin
    English poet, novelist and librarian (1922 - 1985)
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