Quotes of: Being-silly Keyword

The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their lives in the course of a single day.

Cosmos

Reality is God-centered and all human beings are worshipers, whether or not they are conscious of this reality and its implications.

Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth

Make big commitments, keep them, and never offer reasons when you don't make things happen.

The Compassionate Samurai: Being Extraordinary in an Ordinary World

If he (George Keenan)felt on occasion more than a little uncomfortable when being listened to, then he was truly unhappy when not being listened to.

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

Adoption is a wonderful way of becoming a family. If being a biological parent is any better or more rewarding than being an adoptive parent, I really don't think I could stand it!

Dear Birthmother

What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child?

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories

Indeed, not all attacks—especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin—are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are.

From Dream To Discovery: On Being A Scientist

To bracket form and finality out of one's investigations as far as reason allows is a matter of method, but to deny their reality altogether is a matter of metaphysics.

The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss

And being different? That turned out to the best part of all. I found that with a little creativity, and a lot of dedication, any difference can be turned into something amazing. Our differences are our superpowers.

El Deafo

Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.

Education and the Significance of Life

God can accomplish more through one message in the fulness of the Spirit than through hundreds given in the energy of the flesh.

The Enduement Of Power: Being Filled With The Holy Spirit

Colleen had this idea -- a faded, crumpled, smudged idea -- that being nice counted for something.

Emma Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree

What an incredible thing! How much less they had than other human beings. Mentally retarded, deaf, mute - and still eagerly sanding benches.

Flowers for Algernon

Who are we to make such a decision? To allow another living being - any living being - to die, when ours is the power to prevent it? - Reed Richards (Mister Fantastic)

The Fantastic Four: The Trial of Galactus

Being defiant is a two-year-old who doesn't want to go to bed when he's tired. Being is standing one's ground even in the face of opposition. It's a man's virtue, not a toddler's vice.

Finding Himself

At least with pets, and for all I know, people too, intelligence and quick-wittedness have nothing to do with a talent for being loved, or being kind, nothing at all, less than nothing.

The Feast of Love

A moment later, the world's first all-purpose human being strode eastward, whistling. 'A tasty world,' it reflected cheerfully. 'A very tasty world.' 'You said it, Cornelius!

The Final Programme

At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.

Forbidden

Guilty she might be. But what human being was not? There were things in her past she needn't be ashamed of, things to be proud of; she wouldn't surrender so meekly to a condemning judgment.

The Furies

Stop worrying about being that perfect person because no one is perfect. Put your focus on being that right person that will love, understand, and care for that other.

Friends 2 Lovers: The Unthinkable

Sleeping with another girl does not always mean you are a lesbian, sometimes it just means the central heating needs fixing

Fangs Rule: A Girls Guide to Being a Vampire