#being

I knew German history well, and out of my experiences in the rest of the world I believed to know the German kind; therefore I never doubted that, although for the time being all indications were against it, one day a change would come. ↗

— Gustav Krupp

#although #being #believed #change #come

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

#brat #child #decent #easier #guidance

I've been so fortunate in my life that my family has never been jealous of my success. They have shown true love and commitment to me by being supportive. They shared in it. ↗

— Mike Krzyzewski

#being #commitment #family #fortunate #i

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth. ↗

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#continuously #dying #earth #end #human

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#beings #enterprise #every #fellow #fellow human beings

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#being a man #forgive #i #make #man

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#ceases #desire #heard #his #knowledge

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#born #existence #human #human being #into

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#being #famous #i #imagined #jane

Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10 years. Americans know that this kind of spending will have economic consequences, including new taxes being imposed by the new progressives. ↗

— Karl Rove

#boost #consequences #debt #economic #federal