being quotes

• What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity. (George Bernard Shaw) [being/men/activity]
• No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot. (George Bernard Shaw) [being]
• Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married. (George Bernard Shaw) [/people/being]
• The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. (George Bernard Shaw) [being/leisure/wonder]
• This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. (George Bernard Shaw) [joy/life/being/being]
• The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation. (George Bernard Shaw) [being/leisure]
• You cannot be a hero without being a coward. (George Bernard Shaw) [being]
• An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing. (Samuel Smiles) [reality/desires/being]
• Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. (Sydney Smith) [courage/order/being]
• No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior. (Sydney Smith) [being/willpower/being]
• Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other. (Susan Sontag) [being/situation]
• A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of spirit over matter. (Susan Sontag) [psychology/being/spirit/matter]
• Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield. (Muriel Spark) [being/being/war]
• Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you. (Tommy Steele) [business/being]
• Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying. (Gertrude Stein) [wish/being]
• It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son. (Gertrude Stein) [men/thing/being/being]
• Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. (Jonathan Swift) [being]
• Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived. (Jonathan Swift) [happiness/being]
• One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex. (Margaret Thatcher) [being/politics/men/sex]
• City life is millions of people being lonesome together. (Henry David Thoreau) [life/people/being]
• The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled. (Henry David Thoreau) [being]
• It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive. (Henry David Thoreau) [imagination/being/more]
• We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being. (Henry David Thoreau) [being]
• Being is the great explainer. (Henry David Thoreau) [being]
• Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. (Lily Tomlin) [worry/being/mediocre]
• When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people. (Mark Twain) [being/people]
• Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen. (John Updike) [celebrity/face/being/interest]
• Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism. (John Updike) [being/being]
• In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which is different but not basically different, perhaps, from our own. For women, too, there seems to be that tangle of supplication and possessiveness, that descent toward infantile undifferentiation, that omnipotent helplessness, that merger with the cosmic mother-warmth, that flushed pulse-quickened leap into overestimation, projection, general mix-up. (John Updike) [forgiveness/women/being/women]
• Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die. (Gore Vidal) [think/organism/being/virus]
• Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. (Andy Warhol) [being/business/art/money]

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