[ being Quotes ]
352 Quotations
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Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
[ Music ]
Joseph Addison
25 votes
There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
[ Stardom ]
Joseph Addison
23 votes
We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull.
[ Seriousness ]
Joseph Addison
25 votes
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
[ Posterity ]
George Ade
23 votes
So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
[ Change ]
Henri Frederic Amiel
25 votes
Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.
[ Education ]
Maya Angelou
19 votes
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
[ Life, Lust For ]
Maya Angelou
24 votes
It's fun being a kid.
[ Children ]
Bradford Arthur Angier
15 votes
It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.
[ Lies and Lying ]
Robert Armstrong
25 votes
No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
[ Games ]
W. H. Auden
26 votes
Man is an imagining being.
[ Imagination ]
Gaston Bachelard
14 votes
No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
[ Money ]
Francis Bacon
20 votes
A minority is always compelled to think. That is the blessing of being in the minority.
[ Minorities ]
Leo Baeck
26 votes
I have a fear of being boring.
[ Bores and Boredom ]
Christian Bale
18 votes
Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
[ Hatred ]
Hosea Ballou
20 votes
Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.
[ Government ]
Joy Baluch
24 votes
I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory.
[ Communication ]
John Banham
23 votes
Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
[ Strength ]
Sir James M. Barrie
22 votes
What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?
[ Work ]
Gerald Barzan
16 votes
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
[ Bores and Boredom ]
Sir Cecil Beaton
23 votes
I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.
[ Laughter ]
Pierre De Beaumarchais
18 votes
Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like.
[ Freedom ]
Ernest Benn
23 votes
When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.
[ Happiness ]
Edward Frederic Benson
19 votes
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
[ Autobiography ]
John Berger
24 votes
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
[ Glamour ]
John Berger
27 votes
Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
[ Men and Women ]
John Berger
25 votes
The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
[ Success ]
Irving Berlin
24 votes
Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.
[ Law and Lawyers ]
Otto Von Bismarck
22 votes
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
[ Age and Aging ]
Alan Bleasdale
23 votes
I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.
[ Confusion ]
Daniel Boone
18 votes
Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
[ Quotations ]
Christian Nevell Bovee
23 votes
Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
[ Eyes ]
Christian Nevell Bovee
24 votes
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
[ Bores and Boredom ]
Gerald Brenan
25 votes
I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
[ Winners and Winning ]
Mel Brooks
22 votes
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
[ Loneliness ]
Jean De La Bruyere
19 votes
The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.
[ Fear ]
Jean Bryant
22 votes
The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.
[ World ]