#being

I myself had to grow a longer beard and Afghan clothes. I was in danger of being kidnapped by smugglers, though I didn't know it at the time. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#beard #being #clothes #danger #grow

All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they cannot be in reciprocal dependence upon one another. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#alone #another #being #cannot #creatures

Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#conformity #entertain #faith #false #fear

Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforward. Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games. ↗

— Zayn Malik

#another #being #black #black and white #everything

But I've really learned you don't have to fit in. No matter where you go, you're always going to be you and if they don't like you for who you are, then what's the point of being someone else? ↗

— Jena Malone

#being #else #fit #go #going

For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared. ↗

— Jena Malone

#actor #being #being scared #child #child actor

I'm not driven by being understood. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#driven #i #understood

I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. ↗

— David Mamet

#being #being lazy #cowardly #i #lazy

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#binds #common #compassion #future #hope

I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved on from being the supporter in the active day-to-day sense of Tony Blair. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#being #blair #british #day-to-day #i