Being Quotes
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No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
Francis Bacon -
If we go around clearing up our own mess and being positive about our own lifestyle, other people will start copying us and picking up their own carbon 'litter' too
Dave Hampton
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Remembering the Mystery is a way of being everything you always already are.
Adi Da -
The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is the absorption of a people, of a nation, of a rare, in large majestic and abiding things which lifts them up to the skies.
Alexander Crummell -
Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive?
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
One of the best signs of being fitted for power is reluctance to hold it.
Kate Constable -
I don't even like to talk about it. I hated being a number and not merely because I was a very small one. I let them bellow at me for just as long as it took me to find enough pluck to bellow back at them.
George Grosz -
I am often asked how does being a woman affect my work at Affectiva. Honestly, I don't think it does.
Rana el Kaliouby
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I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.
Confucius -
Being an artist is being an isolated individual.
Asger Jorn -
Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. As a solitary being, he attempts to protect his own existence and that of those who are closest to him, to satisfy his personal desires, and to develop his innate abilities. As a social being, he seeks to gain the recognition and affection of his fellow human beings, to share in their pleasures, to comfort them in their sorrows, and to improve their conditions of life.
Albert Einstein -
The theatre show-biz types don't change much, no matter what era we're in. The question of how you balance being in show business with your personal life isn't very different.
Scott Ellis -
Usually, being a volunteer organizer essentially means that I am part of a core base of individuals, that when we start a project - whether it be a big thing like the inauguration or whether it be something that's a longer-term, let's say, educational campaign about a foreign policy issue or a domestic issue - we sit together and we divvy up, and oftentimes it's relevant to different things we do.
Eugene Puryear -
Since puberty, I've always known there was a possibility of me being with a man. It wasn't anything I felt the need to explore until the time came to explore it.
Antoni Porowski
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As a female band, we don't come from trying to be appealing or "sexy." There are a lot of bands - and I'm not dissing anyone - that talk a lot about being girls. I'm more into the idea of being ourselves and letting that speak for itself.
Emily Kokal -
In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off the imagination-and to flee, not like Plato into the land of eternal ideas, into the workshop off the world-creator, feasting one's eyes on the unblemished unbreakable archetypes, but into the rigor mortis off the coldest emptiest concept off all, the concept of being.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
You need to learn to say no and need to recognise when you're being exploited.
Radhika Apte -
Sin is not wrong doing, it is wrong BEING, deliberate and emphatic independence of God.
Oswald Chambers -
There is something very peculiar about this form of atheism: It tries to constantly remind us of God while maintaining He does not exist! How can you hate something that is not there? Why would you persistently prove to people the non-existence of a being really not there?
Gerard Verschuuren -
We're so lucky to take being alive for granted.
Milana Vayntrub
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Consciousness is an electrical phenomenon which arises from a state of being which we can feel.
Alfred Richard Orage -
It wasn't so hard being like your parents or 180 degrees the other way. What was hard was not being one way or the other.
Anna C Salter -
Being the hot girl... you wouldn't want that. It's overrated. Being sexy is actually really boring to me. I'd rather be... I'd rather be interesting.
Amelia Warner -
Being able to write creatively or read creative fiction is the best way to exercise your imagination.
Michael Pryor