#being

We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#conflict #fighting #forth #horrible #horrific

George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters. ↗

— Mark Shields

#bush #did #george #george bush #him

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you. ↗

— Barbara Sher

#any #beginner #being #learn #life

I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being. ↗

— Nate Silver

#choices #endeavor #good #high-quality #human

Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something. ↗

— Dean Rusk

#asleep #astronomers #being #given #implications

It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty. ↗

— Keri Russell

#being #being pretty #except #going #pretty

I want to be able to raise my kid. I was totally being a martyr about it at first, thinking I could totally do it on my own, which I did for a while. I've hired a babysitter before, but as for a full-time caregiver... for a control freak like me, it ain't gonna happen! ↗

— Keri Russell

#about #babysitter #before #being #control

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. ↗

— Bayard Rustin

#act #being #confers #dignity #him

Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling. ↗

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

#antithesis #bear #being #between #ethics

There was the joke about Switzerland being an island surrounded by land. This was never true. ↗

— Samuel Schmid

#being #island #joke #land #never