#being

I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation. ↗

— Travis Barker

#forms #going #i #like #period

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#being #called #class #games #human

With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#bearing #being #birth #body #book

When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give you a tremendous feeling of confidence and well-being. ↗

— Lauren Bacall

#confidence #downhill #feeling #give #reaches

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats. ↗

— Richard Bach

#bodies #characters #fictional #heartbeats #more

Man is an imagining being. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#imagining #man

But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#bars #being #consciousness #courage #deal

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist. ↗

— Russell Baker

#being #having #other #recognize #thing

Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product. ↗

— Russell Baker

#being #journalism #product #profits #street

I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien that's the way it should be. ↗

— Tom Baker

#any #because #being #benevolent #carefully