Quotes of: Supreme-being Keyword

People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of miles, much, much bigger than what we create.

Christo

From being at art college, I've always hated people that have the gall to think that they're being incredibly different when they're doing something in a very acceptable way, something safe that they've seen someone else doing.

Sade Adu

I feel myself part of something. Not only being part of a community but part of an actual moment and a movement of Irish writing and art. That sense of being part of the whole thing is the deepest joy.

Seamus Heaney

Human beings do not like being pushed about by gods. They may seem to, on the surface, but somewhere on the inside, underneath it all, they sense it, and they resent it.

Anansi Boys

The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not.

Anne's House of Dreams

She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.

Anne's House of Dreams

We always kept in our hearts the most noble, beautiful feeling that sets human beings apart: hope.

Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End

You get caught in being something, being cool or special or whatever, to the point where you don’t even know why you need it; you just think you do

An Abundance of Katherines

Being in love changes a person…a modest touch changes one’s mind, a lone thought one’s reasoning, but a kiss my friend, well that changes one’s existences.

Ambience

Much of modern life is based upon a false logic, a logic that assumes that happiness and well-being come from financial prosperity.

The Happiness Manifesto

Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.

The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.

The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

how much he loved being alone except when he didn't, except when it got to be too much?

The Honey Thief

Human nature being what it was, the only time you could really be sure you weren’t being lied to was when you were talking to yourself.

HOA Wire

Living as I do with human beings, the more that I observe them, the more I am forced to conclude that they are selfish.

I Am a Cat

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.

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

Outside the family circle, papa, I'm glad to say, is entirely unknown. I think that is quite as it should be. The home seems to me to be the proper sphere for the man.

The Importance of Being Earnest

I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane. It never is, sir. Lane, you're a perfect pessimist. I do my best to give satisfaction, sir.

The Importance of Being Earnest

JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

The Importance of Being Earnest

Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible.

Intercourse

The sole agents, indeed, in the action of her novels are individual human beings. And the comedy is the outcome of their making fools of themselves and of one another.

Jane Austen And Her Art