Being Newly Single Quotes

1. "The true mind can weather all the lies and illusions without being lost. The true heart can touch the poison of hatred without being harmed."
Author: Avatar

2. "My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me."
Author: Bayard Rustin

3. "When we feel like victims, all our actions and beliefs are legitimised, however questionable they may be. Our opponents, or simply our neighbours, stop sharing common ground with us and become our enemies. We stop being aggressors and become defenders. The envy, greed or resentment that motivates us becomes sanctified, because we tell ourselves we're acting in self-defence. Evil, menace, those are always the preserve of the other."
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón

4. "Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate --- with vindictive antipathy. It is cruel --- she cannot help being mad."
Author: Charlotte Brontë

5. "Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues."
Author: Cullen Hightower

6. "The mind unlearned in reverence, says Bonaventure (1221–1274), is in danger of becoming so captivated by the spectacle of beings as to be altogether forgetful of being in itself; and our mechanistic approach to the world is nothing but ontological obliviousness translated into a living tradition."
Author: David Bentley Hart

7. "Speaking softly, I said with all honestly, "Evan, my heart's not completely healed yet, but I know I want you. And I think being with you can get me there faster, but I don't wanna put you in that position unless you're willing. ‘Cause in a way, it means I only have a shared heart to offer right now. But I think I'd be happy if it was yours wholeheartedly. So just tell me. Do you want out until I'm completely healed, or are you willing to take a mildly damaged heart?"He quietly debated for a moment, and my breath caught in my throat the moment he spoke. "I want to be the one to heal your heart, Princess.""Then will you kiss me?" I whispered."
Author: Devon Ashley

8. "But we're so different, you know: she likes being good and I like being happy."
Author: Edith Wharton

9. "I heard you in the other room asking your mother, 'Mama, am I a Palestinian?' When she answered 'Yes' a heavy silence fell on the whole house. It was as if something hanging over our heads had fallen, its noise exploding, then - silence. Afterwards...I heard you crying. I could not move. There was something bigger than my awareness being born in the other room through your bewildered sobbing. It was as if a blessed scalpel was cutting up your chest and putting there the heart that belongs to you...I was unable to move to see what was happening in the other room. I knew, however, that a distant homeland was being born again: hills, olive groves, dead people, torn banners and folded ones, all cutting their way into a future of flesh and blood and being born in the heart of another child...Do you believe that man grows? No, he is born suddenly - a word, a moment, penetrates his heart to a new throb. One scene can hurl him down from the ceiling of childhood onto the ruggedness of the road."
Author: Ghassan Kanafani

10. "There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog."
Author: Halle Berry

11. "When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself."
Author: Isaac Asimov

12. "V frowned. There was only a hissing sound coming from the voice mail. But then a clatter had him yanking the phone away from his ear.Now Butch's voice, hard, loud: "Dematerialize. Dematerialize now."A scared male: "But-but-""Now! For fuck's sake, get your ass out of here..." Sounds of muffled flapping."Why are you doing this? You're just a human-""I am so sick of hearing that. Leave!"There was a metallic shifting, a gun being reloaded.Butch's voice: "Oh,shit..."Then all hell broke loose. Gunshots, grunts, thuds.V leaped up from his desk so fast he knocked his chair over.Only to realize that he was trapped inside by daylight."
Author: J.R. Ward

13. "Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me."
Author: Jamie Lee Curtis

14. "One of her black pumps had fallen to the floor, and Joel wasoutraged at the sight of her pretty little bare foot being exposed to all and sundry."Would you mind putting the president of Thornquist Gear back on her feet?" J"
Author: Jayne Ann Krentz

15. "All pain we experience is intended to move us closer to the goal of being holy as He is holy."
Author: Jerry Bridges

16. "Function and man appear synonymous because the function can only be pointed toward by being the function. There is no being except in a mode of being. [...] Both scholar and Christian are functioning in identical ways, just under different metaphor, and both are evading the mechanics of being."
Author: Joseph Chilton Pearce

17. "I don't remember consciously not being able to play an instrument. It's been kind of like a language for me."
Author: Kristian Bush

18. "You're cooking", said Elizabeth, and each word came out of her mouth as if it was ashamed of being in the room with the others, "bunny soup."
Author: Liam Perrin

19. "Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person."
Author: Marilyn Vos Savant

20. "Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employs a million."
Author: Mark Twain

21. "My mother, unlike yours, never exchanged sexual favors for a piece of silver," he said, addressing the first insult by banging the boy's head against the trunk of the tree. "And," he said with another resounding thump, "although I'm very familiar with that part of the female body, I take offense at being labeled one."
Author: Melina Marchetta

22. "My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation."
Author: Niklaus Wirth

23. "The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution."
Author: Paul Cezanne

24. "And looking at one single label on a jar, he felt himself gone round the calendar to the private day this summer when he had looked at the circling world and found himself at its center.The word on the jar was RELISH.And he was glad that he had decided to live."
Author: Ray Bradbury

25. "It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business."
Author: Theodore Parker

26. "I get letters that say ‘Stop being evil to Harry or we'll go to Hogwarts and kick your butt. Some fans are so weird. One changed his name legally to Lucius Malfoy and wanted to adopt me."
Author: Tom Felton

27. "I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down."
Author: Virgil Thomson

28. "...for me, being a detective isn't just about solving a case. It's about bringing a resolution to all the loose ends, and to do all I can to help those who were involved. My friend, Leor, understands this very well, and I'm sure he'd do the same. It's beyond chivalry.-Jean Rusé"
Author: Zechariah Barrett

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