#being

A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant. ↗

— Manfred Eigen

#being #irrelevant #may #model #only

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

#beings #beliefs #better #comes #controlling

I knew it was gonna go out. It was just a question of it being fair or foul. The wind must have carried it 15 feet toward the foul pole. I just stood there and watched. I didn't want to miss seeing it go out. ↗

— Carlton Fisk

#carried #fair #feet #foul #go

Part of the reason that I moved to Los Angeles is that even though my mom introduced me to all kinds of music, I really wanted to work on having my own identify, on being who I am and doing what I do, and seeing how people responded. ↗

— Schuyler Fisk

#angeles #being #doing #even #having

I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is going to read a paragraph, and skipping ahead to my paragraph and being mortified and trying to read it enough times so that I wouldn't stutter and stammer, getting called on, even in high school. ↗

— Vince Flynn

#back #bad #being #called #classroom

I mean there are tons of reasons. Well first of all. I write my own record. I don't take other people's materials. And I have a job which is being Willa Ford on top of getting back in the studio and writing and recording. ↗

— Willa Ford

#being #first #first of all #ford #getting

As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional. ↗

— Richard Foreman

#being #emotional #fifteen #i #involved

Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings! ↗

— John Foxe

#average #beings #burned #during #each

Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door. ↗

— Jeff Foxworthy

#being #bernard #born #cat #coming

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings. ↗

— Miles Franklin

#fundamental #human #human beings #needs #someone