Quotes about Being, page 18

There is much suffering in the world physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the greed of others. The material and physical suffering is suffering from hunger, from homelessness, from all kinds of diseases. But the...

Quote by Maica Teresa about being

Creationists make it sound as though a theory is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

Quote by Isaac Asimov about being

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about being

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about being

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent, it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about being

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about being

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about being

The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about being

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about being

What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.

Quote by Erich Fromm about being

Being envious means to recognize your inferiority.

Quote by Gaius Plinius Secundus about being

I mean, I had probably an illusion of being the wife that, you know, I wanted to create a home. I wanted to have children. I wanted him to be a husband. It was never going to be that way. It couldn't be that way.

Quote by Priscilla Presley about being

Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get.

Quote by Kevin Michael Costner about being

If someone asked me what a human being ought to devote the maximum of his life to, I would answer: training. Train more than you sleep.

Quote by Masutatsu Oyama about being

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about being

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it. "

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about being

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about being

The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about being

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

Quote by William Faulkner about being

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

Quote by Oprah Winfrey about being