Quotes with non-being

Quotes 1321 till 1340 of 1961.

  • Bernard Meltzer Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
    Bernard Meltzer
    American professor (1916 - 1998)
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  • Bernard Lown Summits like those in Geneva promote hope. But hope without action is hopeless. Our enthusiasm for the positive spirit in these deliberations must not blind us to the absence of genuine progress toward disarmament. Twenty-four nuclear bombs are being added weekly to world arsenals.
    Nobel Peace Prize acceptance
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  • Bryan Magee Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.
    Bryan Magee
    British philosopher, broadcaster, politician (1930 - 2019)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bill Skarsgard Sweden is a small country and, well, our family's pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn't like the sound of just being 'the fourth acting Skarsgard.'
    Bill Skarsgard
    Swedish actor (1990 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Synergy is the only word in our language that means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the separately observed behaviors of any of the system's separate parts or any subassembly of the system's parts. There is nothing in the chemistry of a toenail that predicts the existence of a human being.
    Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • George S. Patton Take calculated risks. This is quite different from being rash.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Bob Barr Taking privacy cues from the federal government is - to say the least - ironic, considering today's Orwellian level of surveillance. At virtually any given time outside of one's own home, an American citizen can reasonably assume his movements and actions are being monitored by something, by somebody, somewhere.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Johnny Carson Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: ''Are your ready?''
    Johnny Carson
    American TV personality, businessman (1925 - 2005)
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  • Caroline Dhavernas Talking back and being quite aggressive about stuff and not giving a care in the world about anyone. So it was more, I think, that way and I think that's what happened in that party when I stood in between two people.
    Caroline Dhavernas
    Canadian actress (1978 - )
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  • Bradley A. Smith Tax rates should never be raised in some brackets without being raised in all brackets.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Aldous Huxley That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Ben Harper That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Bob Dylan That he not busy being born is busy dying.
    It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Anthony Holden That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • William Shakespeare That what we have, we prize not to the worth
    whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost,
    why, than we rack the value.
    Much ado about nothing (1598)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Angela Davis That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Hosea Ballou The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.
    Hosea Ballou
    American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism'' (1771 - 1852)
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