Quotes of: Being-used Keyword

I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now t...

Gabourey Sidibe

Most of us would simply prefer things to remain the same-- the "Status que" looks more appealing, especially when we think that somehow we are benefiting. accordingly, incumbency with all its faults is generally more assuring than a future that risks...

Hamidreza Bagheri

I think that when we're looking at things when we're right in the center of things, as opposed to being a bit unmoored from what's going on around us, we see things through a kind of dulling lens of convention, and there's something about extreme emo...

Jenny Offill

He believed that life gives us all a few moments of happiness. For some they last hours or days, for a few lucky ones they last for years. The memories from those moments stays with us forever and turns into a country of memory to which we try to go ...

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The business card does not fully reflect who we are. We are being judged, we feel, in a humiliating way. We feel there is so much in us that has not got an expression in capitalism. You know, capitalism is a machine that recognizes outward financial,...

Alain de Botton

Death is nothing but leaving the flesh dress of soul, which God makes us wear when we come on the mundane world to perform our own duties determined by Him.When we come on the earth being clothed with this perishable dress,everyone who encircle us , ...

Love

The bond between being and non-being can be only internal. It is within being qua being that non-being must arise, and within non-being that being must spring up; and this relation can not be a fact, a natural law, but an upsurge of the being which i...

Jean-Paul Sartre

There are worse things, worse than being like us. Look, at least we're alive.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

... reading was hardly as practical a skill as being able to handle a dagger or use Allomancy?

The Final Empire

I’m not above using unsavory beings to kick the Gods’ asses, but the Phantoms are too unpredictable for my taste,” I said.

Fallen Legion

A brick can be used to represent the zero probability of this book being any good.

A bit of rubbish about a Brick and a Blanket

A brick could be used to back the dollar. Hey, it’s better than the dollar being backed by nothing, right?


Blanket

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.

Thomas Heatherwick

What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!

Anna Karenina

If you see someone being bullied, make it stop. Why is that so hard for us to do?

Keep Holding On

Wherever and however any one of us may be conceived, it is the same. We come into being in the arms of God.

Maybe, Maybe Not

Life is a miracle. We, all of us are creator beings. We are the joyful choice makers.

Laughing Buddha:The Alchemy of Euphoric Living

We are clay and nothing is real for us except the uncanny womb of Being into which we shall return.

The Time of the Angels

the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is.

Till We Have Faces

Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Although nobody could ever know about our friendship, that wasn’t going to stop us from being together.

The Pax Valley