Beings Quotes
3882 Beings quotes by 2151 unique authors
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Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle-a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed murder for jealousy's…
— Herman Melville
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To have passion, to have a dream, to have a purpose in life. And there are three components to that purpose, one is to find…
— Deepak Chopra
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In order to be happy, human beings must feel they are continuing to grow. Clearly, we must adopt the concept of continuous improvement as a…
— Tony Robbins
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The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Human beings are like tea-bags. You don't know your own strength until you get into hot water.
— Unknown Author
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Many times I am asked why the suffering of animals should call forth more sympathy from me than the suffering of human beings; why I…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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A God without wrath brought human beings without sin into a kingdom without judgment through ministrations of a Christ without a cross.
— H. Richard Niebuhr
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God made (human beings) because he loves stories.
— Elie Wiesel
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In our current society, it is considered a weakness to be female and a treason to protest this. Highlighting inequality results in aggressive insults and…
— Clementine Ford
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The reason women are always reluctant to reveal their age is because other people label them as 'past it'. In the 21st century, women over…
— Ita Buttrose
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A rise of 5C would be a temperature the world has not seen for 30 to 50 million years. We've been around only 100,000 years…
— Nicholas Stern
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My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just…
— Gabriel Mann
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The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are…
— Gloria Steinem
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Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men;…
— Thomas Carlyle
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We are all wounded. But wounds are necessary for his healing light to enter into our beings. Without wounds and failure and frustrations and defeats,…
— Bo Sanchez
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All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and…
— Ornette Coleman
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Human beings will continue to deceive and overpower one another. Basically, everyone exists in the very nature of suffering, so to abuse or mistreat each…
— Dalai Lama
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Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a gathering, the impression…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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All human beings bear God's image and must be respected for what each person is. Therefore, no external description of one's being, whether based on…
— John Shelby Spong
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Remember the high board at the swimming pool? After days of looking up at it you finally climbed the wet steps to the platform. From…
— Richard Bach
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Let the revolting distinction of rich and poor disappear once and for all, the distinction of great and small, of masters and valets, of governors…
— Francois-Noel Babeuf
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Exclusion of just one class of citizens from receiving a marriage license based upon the perceived 'threat' they pose to the marital institution is, at…
— Unknown Author
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Although most people spend their entire lives following this biological impulse (i.e. the sex drive), it is only a tiny portion of our beings. .…
— Laozi
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Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.
— Gautama Buddha
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A person is quite different from a tree or rock or stream. By introducing the nude into my pictures, I started perceiving all the things…
— Wynn Bullock
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