Quotes with non-being

Quotes 1581 till 1600 of 1961.

  • Samuel Johnson The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh The very essence of meditation is to be so silent that there is no stirring of thoughts in you, that words don't come between you and reality, that the whole net of words falls down, that you are left alone. This aloneness, this purity, this unclouded sky of your being is meditation.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Norman Mailer The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Atom Egoyan The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Boyd Rice The will to label will always prevail over what's being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or understanding.
    Boyd Rice
    American musician (1956 - )
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  • Jean de la Bruyère The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Casey Wilson The woman I'd want to meet the most is Nicole Holofcener. I've loved every single film she's done. I think her films are deeply comedic while being deeply disturbing and dark.
    Casey Wilson
    American actress, comedian, and screenwriter (1980 - )
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  • Candace Bushnell The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.
    Candace Bushnell
    American author and journalist (1958 - )
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  • Adolf Loos The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Bing Gordon The world of digital media is being transformed. A bunch of new businesses can be reinvented, thanks to social graphs, the mobile internet, and the new shopping habits of the young. Those are going to create a whole generation of cool new companies.
    Bing Gordon
    American video game executive and technology venture capitalist
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  • Anderson Cooper The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death.
    Anderson Cooper
    American television journalist (1967 - )
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  • Sidney Madwed The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.
    Sidney Madwed
    American business consultant, lyricist and author
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  • Milan Kundera The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people. To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • T. S. Eliot The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Cate Blanchett Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you - you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Bill Griffith Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
    Bill Griffith
    American cartoonist (1944 - )
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  • Brooke Burke There are a lot of different beliefs for tightening up your core. I think just being conscious of it and being aware to engage your muscles will help any woman's tummy get in shape.
    Brooke Burke
    American actress, dancer, model (1971 - )
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  • Jean de la Bruyère There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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All non-being famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 80)