Being There Quotes (page 106)

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• people
• helpful
• job

There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself. Laurell K. Hamilton

• kindness
• him
• hi

There was nothing to be done with him and his kind - unless you were prepared to shoot them. Christopher Isherwood

• road
• time
• purpose

There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few priveledged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• missing
• tears
• king

There must be evidence somewhere, you know. I know you've all worked like beavers, but I'm going to work like a king beaver. and I've got one big advantage over the rest of you."More brains?" suggested Sir Impey, grinning."No - I should hate to suggest that, Biggy. But I do believe in Miss Vane's innocence."Damn it, Wimsey, didn't my eloquent speeches convince you that I was a whole-hearted believer?"Of course they did. I nearly shed tears. Here's old Biggy, I said to myself, going to retire... Dorothy L. Sayers

• evening
• civil
• civilized

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured. Robert A. Heinlein

• life
• free
• free life

There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth. Fred Rogers

• black
• collectives
• collect

There will never be a chanel collection without black Karl Lagerfeld

• wronged
• wrong
• wrong doings

There’s got to be something wrong with us. To do what we did. Truman Capote

• time
• timing
• times

There shall be time no more. Fyodor Dostoevsky

• invading
• invaded
• compromise

There can be no compromise between wrong and right. Germany is wrong and the Allies are right. The devastations of Belgium and the atrocities of the invading horde of barbarians are an outrage to civilized mankind. John Phillips Marquand

• love
• being love
• lets

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved. W. Somerset Maugham

• difficult
• nothing
• than

There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep. Desmond Tutu

• progress
• progression
• progressives

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation. Christopher Hitchens

• question
• integrity
• bad

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules Albert Camus

• history
• words
• trust

There would be no history as we know it, no religion, no metaphysics or aesthetics as we have lived them, without an initial act of trust, of confiding, more fundamental, more axiomatic by far than any “social contract” or covenant with the postulate of the divine. This instauration of trust, this entrance of man into the city of man, is that between word and world. George Steiner