Being There Quotes - Page 7

• Nothing is demonstrable, unless the contrary implies a contradiction. Nothing, that is distinctly conceivable, implies a contradiction. Whatever we conceive as existent, we can also conceive as non-existent. There is no being, therefore, whose non-existence implies a contradiction. Consequently there is no being, whose existence is demonstrable.

  David Hume

  Death, Afterlife, Contradiction

  David Hume (2005). “Dialogues sur la religion naturelle”, p.244, Vrin

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• Yes, Eden was beautiful- and if I had to squeeze through corporeal keyholes to crash it- so be it. (Hasn’t it bothered you, this part of the story, my being there, I mean? What was I doing there? ‘Presume not the ways of God to scan,’ you’ve been told in umpteen variations, ‘the proper study of Mankind is Man.’ Maybe so, but what, excuse me, was the Devil doing in Eden?) I took the forms of animals. I found I could. (That’s generally my reason for doing something, by the way, because I find I can.)

  Glen Duncan

  Beautiful, Mean, Animal

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.22, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• But we have achieved at least two important things. Afghanistan is no longer a safe haven for international terrorists. We have a strong Afghan army, which is fighting the terrorists and Taliban. And the second thing is that they are able to do that without us being there to conduct the combat operations.

  Jens Stoltenberg

  Strong, Army, Fighting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I never expected the White House to be warm, and the artwork on the walls was extraordinary. I am a fan of the Louvre, but being there it was almost just as good.

  Jill Scott

  Wall, White, House

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• Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. In the vast colony of our being there are many species of people who think and feel in different ways. Livro Do Desassossego

  Fernando Pessoa

  Thinking, Self, People

  Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (2002). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.294, Grove Press

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• I have my own set of survival techniques. I am patient. I know how to pack light. But my one might travel talent is that I can make friends with anybody. I can make friends with the dead. If there isn’t anyone else around to talk to, I could probably make friends with a four-foot-tall pile of sheetrock. That is why I’m not afraid to travel to the most remote places in the world, not if there are human beings there to meet. People asked me before I left, “do you have friends [there]?’ and I would just shake my head no, thinking to myself, But I will.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thinking, Light, Feet

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• I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do. The world wasn't so wonderful back then, with segregated rule in the South. But we were never hopeless and we never despaired because we had adults out there struggling with us, being there for us, and buffering us.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Religious, Struggle, Helping Others

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Hillary Clinton was in rural America during the Iowa caucuses, but I think the nature of a campaign makes it more difficult once you become the candidate. There's a messaging opportunity here throughout, not just in the election season, but before the election, the opportunity to underscore what government is doing in a positive way in partnership with rural folks. I think it's a messaging issue. It's being there physically, talking to folks, listening to people, respecting and admiring what they do, and then making sure that they understand precisely what the partnership is.

  Tom Vilsack

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 95% of being a success in the competitive world of fashion is just showing up on time and being there. I don't know how I knew that when I was younger. You have to stick around for people to remember you.

  Beverly Johnson

  Fashion, People, World

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• We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence

  Voltaire

  Intelligent, Ideas, Differences

  Voltaire (2015). “Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary”, p.51, Voltaire

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• When you can clearly see yourself being there, you can see much more clearly how to get there. You can imagine the path to your dreams, and then start to actually walk it. Play an active role in your own future. Imagine with passion and detail how you'd most like it to be.

  Ralph Marston

  Dream, Passion, Play

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• Sweden is a small country. All cities seem small after a while. I was hanging out at a rehearsal hall in Williamsburg and I don't know how many people I ran into just being there for a couple days. Music makes all cities smaller.

  Anna Ternheim

  Country, Couple, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

  Lucian Freud

  Thinking, Use, Pleasure

  Lucian Freud, Rolf Lauter, Jean Christophe Ammann, Craig Hartley, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2001). “Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre”, Hatje Cantz Publishers

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• I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It's by the sea, there's a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.

  Brian Eno

  Gay, Sea, San Francisco

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• When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.

  Michael Ende

  Lying, Deceit, Manipulation

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• On the other hand, I have devoted so much energy to reach the top that I accept the stress of being there.

  Placido Domingo

  Stress, Hands, Energy

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• Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.

  Miley Cyrus

  Song, Positive Words, Crowds

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• I love New York, but being there the whole year, it gets a little crazy with the speed and rhythm of things.

  Penelope Cruz

  New York, Crazy, Years

  Interview With Marion Cotillard, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 28, 2009.

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• With fame, you can't trust everybody. You can't depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got and what you can bring to their life. It's not a relationship-it's a leech.

  Chris Brown

  Leeches, Fame, Persons

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• Underneath the world of sense perceptions and the world of mind activity, there is the vastness of being. There's a vast spaciousness. There's a vast stillness and there's a little ripple activity on the surface, which isn't separate, just like the ripples are not separate from the ocean.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Ocean, Perception, Mind

  Source: home.online.nl

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• I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.

  Danny Boyle

  Guy, Not Sure, Rely

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• If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we can blame the state governments; but in the end, it's the mayors and the local city governments that have to be prepared for emergencies and be prepared to act.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Government, Cities, President

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• A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Greatness, Men, Campaigns

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• I just don't accept midgets as human beings. There's only so much political correctness I can accept.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Political, Accepting, Midget

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• There are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being there's fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the smell of death and they suck the life out.

  Peter Mullan

  Air, Smell, People

  "Local hero". Interview with Demetrios Matheou, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2001.

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