being quotes

• The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [being/being]
• Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [being]
• Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black. (Shirley Chisholm) [being/more/path/being]
• There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation! A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away. (Agatha Christie) [conversation/human/being/personality]
• The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. (Winston Churchill) [fear/being]
• I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. (Winston Churchill) [being]
• This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read. (Winston Churchill) [being]
• Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience. (Marcus Cicero) [people/being/opinion/desire]
• It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense. (William Cobbett) [life/human/being/mind]
• I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jackie Kennedy. She is, to my mind, a very gallant lady, victimized by whoever it is who designs the tops of her uniforms. (Leonard Cohen) [being/mind/lady]
• Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished. ( Confucius) [look/desire/being/being]
• I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull. (William Congreve) [find/danger/being]
• Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. Now and then a fatal conjunction of events may lift the veil for an instant. For an instant only. No human being could bear a steady view of moral solitude without going mad. (Joseph Conrad) [memory/human/being/solitude]
• To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence. (Joseph Conrad) [path/human/being]
• He who stops being better stops being good. (Oliver Cromwell) [being/being]
• I was asked to memorize what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner. (Aleister Crowley) [memory/being]
• I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself. (Rodney Dangerfield) [being/night]
• A lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper -- a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable. (Charles Dickens) [lady/being/more]
• There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich. (Marlene Dietrich) [money/being]
• I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment. (Benjamin Disraeli) [meditation/human/being/willpower]
• Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress. (Benjamin Disraeli) [being/knowledge/life/age]
• The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it. (Margaret Drabble) [pleasure/being/being]
• She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity -- and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the woman of wax whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death. (Marguerite Duras) [human/being/infidelity/infidelity]
• No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation. (Marguerite Duras) [human/being/music/power]
• Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. So, melancholy is morbid only when it occupies too much place in life; but it is equally morbid for it to be wholly excluded from life. (Emile Durkheim) [sadness/being/pleasure/melancholy]
• A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt. If it cannot discover the claims to existence of the objects of its questioning -- and it would be miraculous if it so soon succeeded in solving so many mysteries -- it will deny them all reality, the mere formulation of the problem already implying an inclination to negative solutions. But in so doing it will become void of all positive content and, finding nothing which offers it resistance, will launch itself perforce into the emptiness of inner revere. (Emile Durkheim) [mind/ignorance/being/willpower]
• The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb. (Umberto Eco) [being/speak/speak]
• I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed. (Umberto Eco) [being]
• Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. (Marian Wright Edelman) [service/being/life/time]
• They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities. (Albert Einstein) [being]
• If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut. (Albert Einstein) [plus/being]

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