#being

In a city that is barely getting by with its small budget, something like illegal immigration can be the difference from being able to provide the level of public service that people expect. ↗

— Lou Barletta

#barely #being #budget #city #difference

If you must give me a label, then label me a human being. I have no pride in being a human, though, because I have nothing to do with my becoming one. But, whereas animals don't have a rational code of ethics, I like to think I do. Which is where I am partisan. Moral partisanship is the reason for my "anger." And if I don't protest what needed to be protested, I might just as well be an animal. ↗

— Paul Krassner

#animal #ethics #human-being #protest #anger

You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else. ↗

— Adam Arkin

#connected #else #empowered #everybody #everybody else

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#art #art forms #being #forms #greatest

Beauty is being in harmony with what you are. ↗

— Peter Nivio Zarlenga

#being #harmony #you

To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is. ↗

— Peter Nivio Zarlenga

#being #come #dream #must #principle

When I was younger, many of my romantic escapades were just a means of simply avoiding being by myself. I was afraid of feeling lonely, afraid I wouldn't know what to say to myself. ↗

— Michael Zaslow

#avoiding #being #feeling #i #just

Life, is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming. ↗

— Myrna Loy

#being #getting #having #life

If we talk about the glass being half empty or half full, I want to know what does the glass look like from underneath the table? ↗

— Brad Thor

#being #does #empty #full #glass

I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever. ↗

— Nina Simone

#because #being #cave #economic #economic situation