Top 100 Quotes About There Be
#1. Well, lookee there. Be a fuck of a night, yay?
Stacia Kane
#2. Never will there be a shortage of reasons for anxiety, whether born of happiness or misery; life will press on its way from one pursuit to another; leisure will never be enjoyed, though the prayer is constantly on our lips.
Seneca.
#3. Will there be traitors, Father?" "There are always traitors. Trust nobody.
Ariana Franklin
#4. Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.
Barbara Jordan
#5. Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in my knowledge it is because my procreative will is in it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#6. No more will there be any difference between 'the ideal good' and 'good' in so far as both are good.
Aristotle.
#7. I think the important thing is that there be plenty of newspapers, with plenty of different people controlling them, so that there are a variety of viewpoints, so there is a choice for the public. This is the freedom of the press that is needed.
Rupert Murdoch
#8. If we know that we all came from the same place and our destination is the same, then how could there be any conflicts? Why are we are loving each other and why we are not in peace?
Debasish Mridha
#9. You didn't promise to kill me," Wayne said, pulling on his socks. "You promised to have killed me. That there be the present perfect tense.
Brandon Sanderson
#10. We must not show to all and sundry the secrets of the waters flowing in ocean and river, or the devices that work on these waters. Let there be convened a council of experts and masters in mechanical art to deliberate what is needed to compose and construct these works.
Filippo Brunelleschi
#11. Though the Indian ocean abounds in rich and rare gems, it does not boast a clearer sky nor more unruffled sea. If there be a shore that dreads not the fury of the faithless billows, it is some poor and narrow inlet unknown to the winds.
Pietro Metastasio
#12. It is one thing to remember, another to know. To remember is to safeguard something entrusted to the memory. But to know is to make each thing one's own, not depend on the text and always to look back to the teacher. "Zeno said this, Cleanthes said this." Let there be space between you and the book.
Seneca The Younger
#13. If there be no eternal life, still the enjoyment of spiritual thoughts as ideals is keener and makes a man happier, whilst the foolery of materialism leads to competition and undue ambition and ultimate death, individual and national.
Swami Vivekananda
#14. Oh, God," he prayed once again, "by all means test us to the limit of our endurance, but please make it humanly possible to go on. Please let there be some sort of path".
Piers Paul Read
#16. Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing & any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt
Aleister Crowley
#17. Some accidental frequency in the siren had lit a gene like a flare in their rib cages, freeing them - for what greater freedom could there be than to forget your home?
Andrew Sean Greer
#18. How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#19. Just as there can be little doubt that labor unions are a significant political force, neither can there be much question that this political force is a by-product of the purely industrial activities that unions regard as their major function.
Mancur Olson
#20. Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.
Haile Selassie
#21. Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.
John McCain
#22. If Satan were twins, one the Republican nominee for president, the other the nominee of the Democrats, and God ran as an independent, can there be any doubt who would come in last?
Dee Hock
#23. Could there be any doubt that the Jews would seek to harm the Son of God again, knowing that his body was now readily accessible in the form of defenseless crackers?
Sam Harris
#24. For after all man knows mighty little, and may some day learn enough of his own ignorance to fall down again and pray. Not that Icare. Only, if such is God's will, and Fate and Evolution
let there be God!
Henry Adams
#25. When I'm sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court] and I say, 'When there are nine,' people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
#26. The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?
Anne Lamott
#27. Let there be no hesitations, no regrets, no compromises - they are at once cowardly and vain.
Nikki Gemmell
#28. Are you going away with no word of farewell? Will there be not a trace left behind? Well I could have loved you better, didn't mean to be unkind. You know that was the last thing on my mind.
Phil Ochs
#29. Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed?
Antonio Porchia
#30. You cannot stick a knife in a goat and then say, "now I will remove my knife slowly - so let things be easy and clean; let there be no mess." There will always be blood.
Yaa Gyasi
#31. Why should there be only one sort of photography? I want to create images with elements of my choosing, narrative or evocative ... I give myself a literary frame, I tell a story.
Sarah Moon
#32. I'd experienced joy, but not nearly enough, could there be enough? The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#33. What greater flood can there be than the flood of ideas? How quickly they submerge all that they set out to destroy, how rapidly do they create terrifying depths?
Victor Hugo
#34. It's normal that there be fear, in every man, the important thing is that it be accompanied by courage
Paolo Borsellino
#35. I'll have got him out of my system." "I hope not." "Really?" "What would there be left of you, if you did?
Nick Hornby
#36. 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart! v Try me and know my thoughts! [3] 24 And see if there be any grievous way in me, and w lead me in x the way everlasting! [4]
Anonymous
#37. As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, Let there be light, constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse.
Bruce Barton
#38. If personal romantic and sexual behavior ends up being public, affecting public institutions and taxpayer funds, it's fair and reasonable to debate the issue, right?
Not according to many who favor alternate lifestyles. They would rather there be no debate.
Linda Harvey
#39. If nothing is random, and everything is predetermined, how can there be free will? The answer to that is simple. Nothing is predetermined; it is determined, or was determined, or will be determined.
Mark Helprin
#41. Well, look at it another way: why shouldn't there be cats in a zoo?" I said.
"They're animals, too, right?"
"Cats and dogs are your run-of-the-mill-type animals. Nobody's going to pay money to see them," he said. "Just look around you-they're everywhere. Same thing with people.
Haruki Murakami
#42. All I am saying is I will be a senator - should there be any special circumstance where the political forces would believe that there might be a need for my service, I would consider it.
Mario Monti
#43. It's very clear that there's a lot of double standards going on. Should there be a 30mph speed limit? Of course there bloody should. And certainly with kids and school food, kids need to be nannied for sure. So give them a bloody good meal at school.
Jamie Oliver
#44. As long as there is the egoism of 'I-ness' (hoonpanu) and the partiality towards 'my-ness' (marapanu), how can there be liberation till then?
Dada Bhagwan
#45. He has made peace with himself, as Isaac the Syrian says, and heaven and earth have made peace with him. He is gathering the fruit of humility. But this takes place only on the narrow way, and few there be that find it.
Tito Colliander
#46. There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
Tariq Ali
#47. I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
Padma Lakshmi
#48. Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.
Pope Pius XI
#49. Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.
James Allen
#50. Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds
Along the pebbled shore of memory!
Many old rotten-timber'd boats there be
Upon thy vaporous bosom, magnified
To goodly vessels; many a sail of pride,
And golden keel'd, is left unlaunch'd and dry.
John Keats
#51. The law against witches does not prove there be any; but it punishes the malice of those people that use such means to take away men's lives.
John Selden
#52. What makes life worthwhile is having a big enough objective, something which catches our imagination and lays hold of our allegiance, and this the Christian has in a way that no other person has. For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?
J.I. Packer
#53. If there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches?
Lemuel K. Washburn
#54. There will never be anyone like you, Morgan."
He closed his eyes for a moment.
"Never, not in a million years or a million lifetimes, will there be anyone else who has what I want.
Adrienne Wilder
#55. Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
Thomas Hobbes
#56. There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as intellectual.
John Constable
#58. If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.
Henry Ward Beecher
#59. But let there be no doubt: he'd prefer to be handling those challenges adaptively because doing well is preferable. And because - and this is, without question, the most important theme of this entire book - kids do well if they can.
Ross W. Greene
#60. Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistopheles!
Christopher Marlowe
#61. There be some sports are painful, and their labour Delight in them sets off: some kinds of baseness Are nobly undergone and most poor matters Point to rich ends. This
William Shakespeare
#62. What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?
Benjamin Franklin
#63. Please let there be another life. I need a real taste of forever with you. This ... this isn't long enough.
Jewel E. Ann
#64. Well, God's above all; and there be souls must be saved, and there be souls must not be saved.
William Shakespeare
#65. Jon, could there be honor in a lie, if it were told for a ... good purpose? - Samwell
George R R Martin
#66. But shouldn't there be a least? Shouldn't there be a bare minimum that life should give you? Is it too much to ask for a job you don't hate, or for someone to truly have and hold? Is it too much to ask for one child? Even one some would call flawed? Couldn't I at least have that?
Kiera Cass
#67. What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
Andre Gide
#68. If there be a man before me who says that the wrath of God is too heavy a punishment for his little sin, I ask him, if the sin be little, why does he not give it up?
Charles Spurgeon
#69. What greater tragedy can there be than to lose hope forever and drift in the cold darkness of hopelessness?
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#70. My happiness comes from doing all I can for my students. To help them, what else could there be?
Frederick Lenz
#71. I desire that there be as many different persons in the world as possible; I would have each one be very careful to find out and preserve his own way.
Henry David Thoreau
#72. Apostolic preaching cannot be carried on unless there be apostolic prayer. Men of God, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on earth.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#73. Some fearful sights there be that creep
By night - I mean that harass sleep;
But tenfold more alarming seem these when
They brave the day, to breathe the air like men.
William Batchelder Greene
#74. Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights.
Walter Ulbricht
#75. All you who draw near to serve God in prayer, learn to be like Him, meek, humble, and true of heart; do not let there be any deceitfulness or duplicity nor coldness in your soul.
John Of Kronstadt
#76. Let there be light!" said God, and there was light! "Let there be blood!" says man, and there's a sea! - Lord Byron, Don Juan
Robert Liparulo
#77. To enter a room is to move from one environment to another and that, for the teenager, can be traumatic. There be dragons, daily horrors from acne to zit.
Frank McCourt
#78. Could there be a slenderer, more insignificant thread in human history than this consciousness of a girl, busy with her small inferences of the way in which she could make her life pleasant?
George Eliot
#81. Search me, oh God, and know my heart. Try me and know my thoughts. See if there be any wicked way in me and lead me along the path of everlasting life (Psalm 139:23-24).
Tina Campbell
#82. A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
Conn Iggulden
#83. I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked?
Richard Russo
#84. What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth?
Wanda
Ouida
#85. As we send our armsmen and sailors away to fight and die together; let there be peace between us. If there cannot be peace in the world, at least let it be welcome here.
Daniel Abraham
#86. Let there be sunshine, let there be rain, let the broken hearted love again.
Bruce Springsteen
#87. Workmen's compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
Calvin Coolidge
#89. So let there be prose.
There must be a divine prose for the Prophet to triumph
Mahmoud Darwish
#90. If there be any one principle more widely than another confessed by every utterance, or more sternly than another imprinted on every atom of the visible creation, that principle is not liberty, but law.
John Ruskin
#91. And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
Tertullian
#92. What other goal could there be, then finding one's self within God and God within one's very Self? For as we know God, we also are known.
Vivian Amis
#93. Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.
Alec Douglas-Home
#94. Truth can stand by itself ... If there be but one right [religion], and [Christianity] that one, we should wish to see the nine hundred and ninety-nine wandering sects gathered into the fold of truth.
Thomas Jefferson
#95. If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
Thomas Carlyle
#96. Not only were the Jewish people beloved, but God himself had taken pains to let them know it. Could there be any clearer sign that he continued to believe in their potential, even without the Temple, to achieve forgiveness and ultimately merit the Temple's rebuilding?
Meir Soloveichik
#97. A backslider, if there be a spark of life left in him will groan after restoration. No man can be renewed without as real and true a manifestation of the Holy Spirit's energy as he felt at first,
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#98. Only a white-haired old man, who would be a prophet Yet is not a prophet, for he's much too busy, Repeats while he binds his tomatoes: No other end of the world will there be, No other end of the world will there be.
Czeslaw Milosz
#99. Be Americans. Let there be no sectionalism, no North, South, East or West. You are all dependent on one another and should be one in union. In one word, be a nation. Be Americans, and be true to yourselves.
George Washington
#100. I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy.
Alban Berg