#being

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. ↗

— Olive Schreiner

#being #born #did #ever #hear

The director calmed me down and told me I was being too hard on myself. He went on to say that I wasn't quite as bad as I thought, but needed to tone things down a bit. ↗

— Dwight Schultz

#being #bit #calmed #director #down

Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#addressing #being #black #brought #christians

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

Of course, with the increasing number of aeroplanes one gains increased opportunities for shooting down one's enemies, but at the same time, the possibility of being shot down one's self increases. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#being #course #down #gains #increased

The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience. ↗

— Sally Ride

#change #experience #had #i #life

It is important that we are coming up on the millennium because what I am experiencing, just being one person out of billions, is the feeling of acceleration. I experience this through my contact with other people. ↗

— Terry Riley

#am #because #being #billions #coming

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#distorts #emotion #emotions #gather #impure

American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them. ↗

— Dana Rohrabacher

#being #government #held #iraq #iraq war

I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

#any #being #clubs #death #die