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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What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?
Jose Saramago 
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If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.
Fred Woodworth
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I used to want to be tall, and then I thought, 'If I were tall, then people would say I was pretty and not cute.' And then I realized that there are worse things than being called cute.
Kristin Chenoweth
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Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
George Soros
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Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian.
Robert Towne
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Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.
Eminem
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The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
Helen Keller
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I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.
Daniel Boone
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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
John Cleese
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