Quotes
Quotes about Being
Half of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
It is so far from being needless pains, that it may bring considerable profit, to carry Charcoals to Newcastle.
Any woman could act like a lady, and this behavior was interpreted as being submissive, demure, inhibited...Being a lady in the Western world was like footbinding in China.
Maka le wakanâthe land is sacred. These words are at the core of our being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take away our land and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies. We'd become just suntanned white men, the jetsam snd floatsam of your great melting pot.
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. - Ralph Waldo Emerson,
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.
I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. [Fr., Je me hate de me moquer de tous, de peur d'etre oblige d'en pleurer.]
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.
Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare, And shot my being through earth, sea, and air, Possessing all things with intensest love, O liberty! my spirit felt thee there.
The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more that you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.
Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
... being a Linux user is sort of like living in a house inhabited by a large family of carpenters and architects. Every morning when you wake up, the house is a little different. Maybe there is a new turret, or some walls have moved. Or perhaps someone has temporarily removed the floor under your bed.
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion.
I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past years I was compelled to go to sea, voyage after voyage. Leaves must follow upon each other as leagues used to follow in the days gone by, on and on to the appointed end, which, being truth itself, is oneâone for all men and for all occupations.
Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
