Being There Quotes - Page 8

• It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Space, Great Men

  Notes by Richard Baker, The Chesterton Review, Winter/Spring 1977.

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• His love for my mother wasn't about looking back and loving something that would never change. It was about loving my mother for everything -- for her brokenness and her fleeing, for her being there right then in that moment before the sun rose and the hospital staff came in. It was about touching that hair with the side of his fingertip, and knowing yet plumbing fearlessly the depths of her ocean eyes.

  Alice Sebold

  Mother, Ocean, Eye

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.198, Pan Macmillan

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• The essential is never to arrive anywhere, never to be anywhere. The essential is to go on squirming forever at the edge of the line, as long as there are waters and banks and ravening in heaven a sporting God to plague his creature, per pro his chosen shits. I've swallowed three hooks and am still hungry. Hence the howls. What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but strech out comfortably on the rack, in the blissful knowledge you are nobody for eternity.

  Samuel Beckett

  Long, Water, Joy

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• Maybe the first time that you know you really care about something is when you think about it not being there,and when you know-you really know-that the emptinessis as much as inside you as outside you.For it falls out,that what we have we prize not to the worth whiles we enjoy it;but being lacked and lost,why,then we rack the value,then we find the virtue that possesion would not show us while it was ours.That's when I knew for the first time that I really did love my sister.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Fall, Thinking, Care

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• But anything worth doing is worth doing badly. Like being there by that summer ocean on the other side of the island while love was fading out of her, the stars burning so extravagantly those nights that anyone could tell you they would never last.

  Jack Gilbert

  Summer, Stars, Ocean

  Jack Gilbert, “Failing And Flying”

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• As never before, he understood the vitality of tradition, the dignity of the worship of what had existed before one's own self had come into being. There was no shame in awe; there was exaltation. (“Cafe Endless: Spring Rain”)

  Nancy Holder

  Spring, Rain, Self

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• Out of this same light, out of the central mind, We make a dwelling in the evening air, In which being there together is enough.

  Wallace Stevens

  Dwelling, Light, Air

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.452, Vintage

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• I like being what the girls call MOD-"my other Dad." What I've learned in the past year is that every kid is different. But as long as you love them and never forget that love, then you have the key. I think it's all about just being there and loving them because kids feel that every single day.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Girl, Daughter, Dad

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• Fortunately for me, I'm in this unique business of not singing, not dancing, not performing - just kind of being there.

  Ryan Seacrest

  Unique, Dancing, Singing

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• You truly help people with the things that you sell. Once you are aware of that vital piece of information every demonstration, every presentation, every transaction will be delivered with a light shining from your heart. From your heart will shine a beacon that tells all prospects you can truly help and that that is your sole purpose for being there.

  Chris Murray

  Heart, Light, People

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• There was certainly a space I felt for me, don't complain about it not being there, make it.

  Erol Alkan

  Space, Complaining, Felt

  Source: thequietus.com

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• 'Big Day Out' is one of our favourite festivals, it's such an eclectic mix of so many different things and it's really about music - which is what a good festival should be about. The reaction from the fans in that part of the world rivals our greatest territories and the kids are always very rabid and very appreciative of us being there, so we're super excited to get back.

  Mikey Way

  Kids, Fans, Different

  "Mikey Way talks of Big Day Out 2012!". Coup De Main Magazine Interview, January 2012.

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• There are too many possibilities, if you can't die. If you're playing a normal human being, there's always that.

  Robert Pattinson

  Normal, Possibility, Humans

  Source: collider.com

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• In general, I always make it my mission to focus on the one person in the audience who seems to be absolutely miserable about being there and try to convert them.

  Davy Rothbart

  Focus, Trying, Miserable

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You gotta constantly purify yourself, living in the city, around human beings. There might be people close to you who affect you inside yourself in such a corrupt way that it screws with your ability to do what you do. But if you make sure that the people who are close you are good people who are there for you and love you, you can create your temple everywhere you go.

  John Frusciante

  Love You, Cities, People

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• I come out here every day, and my job is important when it comes to being there
  every day and being there for my pitchers. I really want to be known more as a
  defensive guy, and take my pitchers to the next level. Every time I go out on
  the field, I take a lot of pride in what I do at the plate, but I take a lot
  more pride in what I do behind the plate.

  Jorge Posada

  Jobs, Pride, Guy

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• Then when [ISIS] moved into Iraq, the Sunni Muslims didn’t object to their being there and about a third of the territory in Iraq was abandoned.

  Jimmy Carter

  Isis, Iraq, Territory

  "Carter unhappy with Obama’s policies in Middle East". www.star-telegram.com. October 07, 2014.

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• It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.

  Frances Conroy

  Letting Go, Character, Just Being

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Doing a show is very similar to what meditation is supposed to be: being there and being present in that space and time.

  Gift of Gab

  Space, Meditation, Shows

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• The general election's taking place today in Iraq, so I guess that means we're one step closer to being there for another 10 years.

  David Letterman

  Mean, Years, Iraq

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• I try to be true to myself yet still at the same time look at comments and look at what the fans have to say and kind of put it in perspective. I'm never someone whose not open for opinion, I'm always just down to make it work and see how we can do things but at the end of the day I always want to make sure it represents me. It's really about just being humble and not selling yourself on being there already.

  Kid Ink

  Humble, Perspective, The End Of The Day

  Source: thecomeupshow.com

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• In the sacred fact of obligation you touch the immutable, and lay hold, as it were, on the eternities. At the very center of your being, there is a fixed element, and that of a kind or degree essentially sovereign. A standard is set up in your very thought, by which a great part of your questions are determined, and about which your otherwise random thoughts may settle into order and law.

  Horace Bushnell

  Order, Law, Degrees

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• My kids are the funniest two human beings there are.

  Kevin Hart

  Kids, Two, Humans

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• 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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• 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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