Our Friends
Being Quotes
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We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother. (Quote by - Katharine Hepburn)
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half. (Quote by - Plato)
I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself. (Quote by - Rodney Dangerfield)
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive. (Quote by - Ayn Rand)
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. (Quote by - Lao Tzu)
The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society. (Quote by - Karl Marx)
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)
We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments. (Quote by - Jim Morrison)
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)
The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap. (Quote by - Ayn Rand)