Quotes
Quotes about Being
Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions. -Unknown.
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.
To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.
Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference.
There are 3 elements essential in the matters of the State, Food, Military equipment, and Confidence of the people in the ruler. Of these 3, Military Equipment is the least important, Food being the 2nd important, and Confidence of the people being the MOST important. All men rather die of starvation than in war, but nevertheless all men do die of old age. Lacking in Confidence from the people, a state cannot survive.
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that ... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.
I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them. For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.
Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck. - Theodore Roosevelt,
Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death! -Earl Wilson.
Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it. Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely. -Adam Michnik.
True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow.
