Quotes with non-being

Quotes 141 till 160 of 1961.

  • Samuel Johnson Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bryce Courtenay Advertising seemed almost natural to me because it was a business where you had to inform, persuade and educate. And so from being a junior copywriter to being the creative director of one of the largest advertising agencies in the country took me 4.5 years, which is, well, a fairly spectacular rise.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Bill Veeck After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a way to draw a few people into the ball park, it being perfectly clear by that time that the ball club wasn't going to do it unaided.
    Bill Veeck
    American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter (1914 - )
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  • Butch Trucks After being away from it for so long, it's really nice to go out and have 10- or 15,000 people show up and enjoy it. It leaves you with a very good feeling.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • J. G. Ballard After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.
    Crash (1973)
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • George Ade After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
    George Ade
    American humorist, playwright (1866 - 1944)
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  • Carl Sagan After the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it's burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be other worlds and stars and galaxies coming into being - and they will know nothing of a place once called Earth.
    Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Samuel Johnson Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Satchel Paige Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.
    Satchel Paige
    African-American baseball player (1906 - 1982)
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Charles Baudelaire All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Anita Brookner All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • William Mathews All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.
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  • Jean de la Bruyère All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Bill Medley All my memories of being in Las Vegas with Bobby were great. Frank Sinatra brought us to the Sands Hotel in 1965. When we worked that lounge, it was a great lounge. I think it was bigger than the showroom. We were two 25-year-old dumb kids from Orange County in Las Vegas with The Rat Pack.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Bell Hooks All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Barbara Deming All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Bruce Cockburn All the diamonds in this world
    That mean anything to me
    Are conjured up
    by wind and sunlight sparkling on the sea
    I ran aground in a harbor town
    Lost the taste for being free
    Thank God he sent some gull chased ship
    To carry me to sea...
    Salt,Sun and Time (1974) All the Diamonds in the World, Track 1
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Abraham H. Maslow All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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