Quotes of: Supreme-being Keyword

human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capable only of fractured perceptions

Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

I don't know whether to be pleased that our lovemaking was of such a high quality that you immediately want more, or if it's an indication you are one of those sex-addicted people who are never satisfied.

The Importance of Being Alice

Are you going to last if I start nibbling at your ankles and work my way up?" "No. You might make it to my knee, but only if I think about starving children and venereal warts.

The Importance of Being Alice

I try hard not to judge anyone, and I try to bless everyone who is a part of my life, particularly anyone with whom I am having any problems

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

For any human being, freedom is essential, crucial, to our dignity and our ability to be fully human.

I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity

LADY BRACKNELL To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

The Importance of Being Earnest

I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

The Importance of Being Earnest

LADY BRACKNELL I had some crumpets with Lady Harbury, who seems to me to be living entirely for pleasure now. ALGERNON I hear her hair has turned quite gold from grief.

The Importance of Being Earnest

Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.

Inkheart

If you happen to be one of the people who has a split zygomaticus major muscle, where the lower part of it is tethered to the overlying skin, this will create a dimple in your cheek when you smile.

The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us

When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.

I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

So how does God affect justice in this life/economy/reality? A lightening bolt, an angel of death, or by the hand of a human being?" ~R. Alan Woods [2012]

The Journey Is The Destination: A Photo Journal

Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube.

Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

Can you understand being alone so long you would go out in the middle of the night and put a bucket into the well so you could feel something down there tug at the other end of the rope?

Refusing Heaven

Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs; being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears; what is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall, and a preserving sweet.

Romeo and Juliet

Every specific human being, however, thinks, judges, imagines, wills and expresses himself or herself in a unique, dissimilar, and unrepeatable mode--a mode of unpredictable difference, or otherness, which objectively defies description or delimitati...

Relational Ontology

With this idea, being a man with long experience of the sea (and they certainly have a great advantage over other men in any sort of task)...

Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Part One

A life is a terrible thing to waste. Reach your potential. Thrive.

Reboot Your Life: A 12-day Program for Ending Stress, Realizing Your Goals, and Being More Productive

That was torture--being able to see, and smell, and hear, and being trapped in a cage. Like standing on the wrong side of the fence, only a few feet from freedom, and knowing you'll never cross it. Yeah. Like that.

Requiem

The only way to leave the circle, to stop dancing with the jailer, is to find a way to preserve one's individuality, that unique which evades description but differentiates one human being from the other.

Reading Lolita in Tehran