Being Quotes
On identity, openness and staying true to yourself.
This set of quotes explores what it means to simply be: holding onto a child's spontaneity, embracing honesty that feels inappropriate in creative work, or aging with flexibility instead of resistance. For more on self-belief, see our Able quotes.
I'm sure that being an applicant from the American School in Vienna helped get me into all seven colleges I applied to.
Shields were generally made of wood, covered with leather, or some similar substance. To secure them, in some sort, from being cut through by the sword, they were surrounded with a hoop of metal.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours.
There's a confusion sometimes with the laptop being the current tools and where electronic music initially comes from.
I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects.
When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to.
Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.
Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the premise being that there's not enough room for everybody.
I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news...
In addition to being a writer, I'm a librarian - professionally trained and everything.
The concept of doing something with child benefit, of changing the rules around child benefit, is something that has been being discussed for some time.
Why is being a female having an agenda any more than being a misogynist - which David Mamet most certainly is?
