Quotes of: Being-used Keyword

Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.

The History of the Peloponnesian War

I think if you study--if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else.

It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

Here's some simple advice: Always be yourself. Never take yourself to seriously. And beware of advice from experts, pigs, and members of Parliament.

It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

If it was my business, I wouldn't talk about it. It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbroker's do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

The Importance of Being Earnest

JACK You're quite perfect, Miss Fairfax. GWENDOLEN Oh! I hope I am not that. It would leave no room for developments, and I intend to develop in many directions.

The Importance of Being Earnest

I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life. If I didn't write them down, I should not probably forget all about them.

The Importance of Being Earnest

I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you if I state quite frankly and openly that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection.

The Importance of Being Earnest

The presence and love of the Word had called them into being; inevitably, therefore when they lost the knowledge of God, they lost existence with it; for it is God alone Who exists, evil is non-being, the negation and antithesis of good.

On the Incarnation

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon

The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

Thus the word "inhuman", in this book's title, refers to the unconscionable and unsuccessful goal of bestializing (in the form of pets as well as beasts of burden) a class of human beings.

Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

Just like you mistook lust for love, you have mistaken with being alone for loneliness. So I'm fine. Thanks for asking.

I Wrote This For You

A man who goes into a restaurant and blatantly disrespects the servers shows a strong discontent with his own being. Deep down he knows that restaurant service is the closest thing he will ever experience to being served like a king.

Killosophy

Love and being in love are not the same thing. The woman takes the man she loves into her body and absorbs his oils and essence. A part of him enters her and becomes a part of her.

Katie in Love

Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own insignificance.

Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean

The inception of human consciousness, the genesis of awareness, must have entailed prolonged 'condensations' around intractable nodes of wonder and terror, at the discriminations to be made between the self and the other, between being and non-being ...

Real Presences

Christianity is a daily supernatural experience with your Father God not a setof rules

Raising the Dead, Angels, Supernatural Wine, & Other Normal Christian Experience: Being Led by the Holy Spirit

I've always thought of wholeness and integration as necessary myths. We're fragmented beings who cement ourselves together, but there are always cracks. Living with the cracks is part of being, well, reasonably healthy

The Sorrows of an American

Read deeply. Stay open. Continue to wonder.

Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

Differentiation is a universal struggle that all human beings face if they wish to fully develop themselves as individuals.

The Self Under Siege: A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation

You can’t really, truly love a thing. Love is only possible between beings or groups of beings. Love of a thing doesn’t work because it can’t love back.

Seven Dogs in Heaven

If a couple of gay guys want to throw the gayest, most fabulous wedding of all time, the only way it should offend you is if you weren’t invited.

Stop Being a F***ing Idiot