Quotes
Quotes about Being
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do.
to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made... [Romans 1:20].
Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are they are they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent being toward God.
I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me . . . All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
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.
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man? Some say the bee stings, but I say 'tis the bee's wax; for I did but seal once to a thing, and I was never mind own man since.
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and force a new one that suits them better.
No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
Where there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.
No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.
How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved!
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.
Sometimes, it is good to be "alone".... but that doesn't make us lonely. It is not a matter of being present "with" someone, it is a matter of being present " to" someone.
There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.
I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being Queen of this country.
'Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so. - Michael Eyquen de Montaigne,
