#being

There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#cannot #capable #first #forget #i

I'm fed up with being bossed around. ↗

— David Hockney

#being #fed #fed up #i #up

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#being #kind #kindness #made #motive

I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward. ↗

— Judy Holliday

#before #being #cry #every #hated

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#being #his #life #lived #man

Beware how you take away hope from any human being. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#away #being #beware #hope #how

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#being #being judged #judged #life #lived

It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out as friends and then invariably end up hating each other. So I just thought they needed telling really, in case they were labouring under the apprehension that they were still friends. ↗

— Peter Hook

#apprehension #being #case #each #end

We don't to be some kind of rock supergroup for the sake of being a supergroup. You want to change things and say something fresh and new so you appeal to people as a new group. ↗

— Peter Hook

#being #change #change things #fresh #group

I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#becoming #been #being #fear #fundamentalism