#being

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#be thankful #being #benefits #command #earth

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#been #being #being lied to #happy #lied

But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated. ↗

— Roger Sessions

#being #communicated #communication #concentration #demands

Now I'm having the time of my life being on the road with one of the world's all-time great big bands, and performing with symphonies. I wouldn't trade it for anything. ↗

— Doc Severinsen

#anything #bands #being #big #big bands

I am in suspense as to the probable or improbability of being called into the Army, a station I would prefer to any other that of being in arms to defend an injured and grossly insulted country. ↗

— John Sevier

#any #arms #army #being #called

In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being. ↗

— John Sexton

#came #i #into #mind #needed

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#being #care #first #first lady #i

I knew Rita Hayworth only enough to know that she was just a tender, sensitive, beautiful human being. A lovely person. Very gentle. She would never stand up for her rights. ↗

— Kim Novak

#being #enough #gentle #her #human

It felt like being in the center of the world, and I felt like I was a witness to history and I knew that the whole world was watching on television. So, I could feel the collective consciousness of the world focused on this little strip of land called Seattle. ↗

— Krist Novoselic

#called #center #collective #collective consciousness #consciousness

Being a foreigner is not a disease. ↗

— Alden Nowlan

#disease #foreigner