Top Being Quotes
The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once.
Andrew Jackson
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
Mark Twain
They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!
Nellie Bly
Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.
Peter Benenson
As long as I live I will have control over my being.
Artemisia Gentileschi
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It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.
David Herbert Lawrence 
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Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.
Bill Cosby
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Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
Fran Lebowitz
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C. S. Lewis
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We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available.
Ethel Waters
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I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company.
Robert Wagner
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Orson Welles
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