Ofbeing Quotes

#1. In this our talking America, we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the power ofbeing greatly useful.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. Wittgenstein imagined that the philosopher was like a therapist whose task was to put problems finally to rest, and to cure us ofbeing bewitched by them. So we are told to stop, to shut off lines of inquiry, not to find things puzzling nor to seek explanations. This is intellectual suicide.

Simon Blackburn

#3. Screw reality. It don't feed my dog. It don't make my Porsche payments. It don't get me laid. Bullshit does that ... and I like it that way. (Leo)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#4. When death cuts all other links, there remains the name. Baptism: the union of a soul with a name, the name it will carry into eternity.

J.M. Coetzee

#5. It's always nice to be able to show your friends and family what it is that you do. I've had their support from the beginning and wouldn't be here without it, so yeah, I do whatever I can to be there with them when they go to see it.

Shawn Roberts

#6. Being born with power, as a boy, doesn't necessarily spur innovation. But being born entirely without it forces innovation in women, who must learn to survive almost from the moment they are born. Afghan women do not need much well-intentioned training on that.

Jenny Nordberg

#7. ( ... ) Language acquisition might be like other biological functions. The linguistic clumsiness of tourists and students might be the price we pay for the linguistic genius we displayed as babies, just as the decrepitude of age is the price we pay for the vigor of youth.

Steven Pinker

#8. Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace.

Frank B. Kellogg

#9. Your heart may tell you one thing, but it is the Word of God that must bear witness in this matter; any other testimony is of no value.

John Bunyan

#10. we in the West have not bothered to develop an effective counternarrative because from the outset we have denied that Islamic extremism is in any way related to Islam. We persist in focusing on the violence and not on the ideas that give rise to it.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#11. To maintain good health requires good nutrition and a healthy dose of exercise.

DeBarra Mayo

#12. Joshua told the people, "Consecrate yourselves, because the LORD will do wonders among you tomorrow. " Joshua 3:5

Beth Moore

#13. No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.

George McGovern

#14. I was the only child born to Josephine Perry that survived. Mama had six other children before me, and all had passed very quickly and very young, all succumbing to a combination of illness and disease and the lack of strength to fight off both.

Isabel Sanford

#15. I think a closet full of things would actually stress me out.

Alexandra Kotur

#16. Although I'm very lazy when it comes to writing, I'm not that lazy when it comes to thinking. I like to develop the plan of a short story, then cut it as short as possible, try to evolve all the necessary details. I know far more about the characters than what actually comes out of the writing.

Jorge Luis Borges