#being

We ask the great masses of India to be patient a short time longer, while the cause of freedom is being fought out, not because we want to delay, but because the hard facts of war make a complete change impossible at the moment. ↗

— Stafford Cripps

#be patient #because #being #cause #change

Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#being #complementary #culture #divinity #grace

A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#beings #civilization #exist #express #freely

I'm very sensitive. Because my mum was my primary emotional caregiver growing up, I found myself being pinned into dresses, darting her dresses, choosing her high heels for the evening or what to wear. I'm very much a mommy's boy. ↗

— Tom Hardy

#being #boy #choosing #dresses #emotional

I have never made fun of religion. Religion is something I don't even want to mess with, because I am really afraid of the clouds opening up and my being struck by lightning. ↗

— Alice Cooper

#am #because #being #clouds #even

The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death. ↗

— Anderson Cooper

#become #begin #being #careful #death

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#children #death #find #going #grow

When you try to figure out what the religious right is, it ultimately comes down either to one man, Pat Robertson, or anyone who believes in a higher being and wants their taxes cut. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#being #believes #comes #cut #down

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#capacity #destination #energy #fact #get

But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated. ↗

— Bob Cousy

#coach #complicated #i #keep #things