Being Quotes

13380 Being quotes by 7372 unique authors

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. — Charles Baudelaire
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes. — Charles Baudelaire
The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things. — Charles Baudelaire
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated. — Charles Baudelaire
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us. — Charles Baudelaire
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… — Charles Baudelaire
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory… — Charles Baudelaire
If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead, they should tell… — Gary Bauer
There's a lot of people out now around America who depend on checks from their fellow taxpayers being in the mailbox every day. — Gary Bauer
In fact, most people are being squeezed in their little cubicle, and their creativity is forced out elsewhere, because the company can't use it. The… — Scott Adams
It's hard to give up the self-esteem connected to being codependent and appearing 'right,' which is probably a survival behavior learned from growing up in… — Melody Beattie
I gave three years of my life to take care of my dying mother who had Alzheimer's disease. Being there for her every need for… — Melody Beattie
The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's second largest oil producer. — Bob Beauprez
Two new workers are being added to the population for every one job that is created. — Bob Beauprez
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to… — Simone de Beauvoir
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human… — Simone de Beauvoir
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority. — Simone de Beauvoir
Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap. — Simone de Beauvoir
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. — Simone de Beauvoir
And I've come to the place where I believe that there's no way to solve these problems, these issues - there's nothing that we can… — Glenn Beck
Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld. — Martha Beck
Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with… — Martha Beck
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. — Joseph Addison
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you… — Robert Foster Bennett
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. — John Berger

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