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Being Quotes (page 349)

Garson Kanin quote: "I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world..."
I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in. Garson Kanin
Cormac McCarthy quote: "He may be dead; or he may be teaching English."
He may be dead; or he may be teaching English. Cormac McCarthy
It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff. Fred Rogers
Satchel Paige quote: "Ain’t no man can avoid being born average, but there ain’t no..."
Ain’t no man can avoid being born average, but there ain’t no man got to be common. Satchel Paige
Why do people take or keep their children out of school? Mostly for three reasons: they think that raising their children is their business not the government’s; they enjoy being with their children and watching and helping them learn, and don’t want to give that up to others; they want to keep them from being hurt, mentally, physically, and spiritually. John Holt
Anna Sewell quote: "If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can..."
If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way. Anna Sewell
Eugene V. Debs quote: "I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to..."
I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets. Eugene V. Debs
Ah cher ami, how poor in invention men are! They are They always think one commits suicide for a reason. But it's quite possible to commit suicide for two reasons. No, that never occurs to them. So what's the good of dying intentionally, of sacrificing yourself to the idea you want people to have of you? Once you are dead, they will take advantage of it to attribute idiotic or vulgar motives to your action. Martyrs, cher ami, must choose between being forgotten, mocked, or made use of. As for... Albert Camus
Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he's a professional whiner in the newspaper. If you'll read the subtext for many of those old strips, you'll find the heart of an old-fashioned Libertarian. And I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners. Berkeley Breathed
To live is nothing more than to come here to die, to be what we were before being born, but with apprenticeship, experience, knowledge of cause, and perhaps with will. Juan Ramon Jimenez
Paul Rand quote: "Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so..."
Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. Paul Rand
if a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly? then they need tosearch. Friedrich Nietzsche
In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself credulous. The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them;... William Kingdon Clifford
What does it mean to be yourself?” he asked. “If it means to do what you think you ought to do, then you’re doing that already. If it means to act like you’re exempt from society’s influence, that’s the worst advice in the world; you would probably stop bathing and wearing clothes. The advice to ‘be yourself’ is obviously nonsense. But our brains accept this tripe as wisdom because it is more comfortable to believe we have a strategy for life than to believe we have no idea how to behave. Scott Adams
If you were to try and pick him out of a group of boys, you’d be wrong. He’d be the other one. Over at the side. The one your eye slipped over. Neil Gaiman

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