Beings Quotes
3882 Beings quotes by 2151 unique authors
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This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.
— Emile M. Cioran
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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
— Eldridge Cleaver
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
— A. R. Ammons
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Human beings are weak.
— Jack Abramoff
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I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I'm a human being, too. And I'm on the side of human beings,…
— Maya Angelou
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We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.
— Maya Angelou
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Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love…
— Maya Angelou
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Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone…
— Maya Angelou
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It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors…
— Maya Angelou
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Wrinkles happen to human beings.
— Jennifer Aniston
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Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven problems constantly. We're living in the disturbed societies of cities.…
— Marina Abramovic
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Corporations are people, my friend ... of course they are. Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to the people. Where do you think it goes? Whose…
— Mitt Romney
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The intelligent beings in these regions should therefore not be surprised if they observe that their locality in the universe satisfies the conditions that are…
— Stephen Hawking
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Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It] is an incapacity,…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience and Infinite love is the only truth; everything…
— Pema Chodron
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What most of us need, almost more than anything, is the courage and humility really to ask for help, from the depths of our hearts:…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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He who drinks a tumbler of London water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, women, and children on the…
— Sydney Smith
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A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. For human beings are not…
— Margaret Fuller
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It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into…
— Anton Chekhov
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The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others.
— Ayn Rand
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What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience…
— Niels Bohr
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His [Ben Okri's] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them: To what extent will we allow the indefinable dynamics of something…
— Aberjhani
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Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings... The books are also a part of what I…
— Aberjhani
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