Havings Quotes & Sayings

I tell you I can't be bothered with things like that. I've got a
soul above buttons. — George Orwell

When she said goodbye it was like a play ending. It was like the theater and coming out again to the streets. — James Salter

From the moment we are born our culture encourages us to believe that outer well-being is the source of inner fulfillment ... Wherever we turn the principle is confirmed, encouraging us to become 'human havings' and 'human doings' rather than human beings. — Russell Peters

The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed. — Thomas Huxley

All joy ... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings. — C.S. Lewis

He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays
cynical but hopeful. — Rose Macaulay

Wise cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization, and the best result which life has to offer us,
a cup for gods, which has no repentance. Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know, is brought into play, and as the reproduction in finer form, of all our havings. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We're all human beings,
when did we change to havings?
Living out our life through things.
How do we get back to being again? — Tracey Madeley

The Italians are very unmusical. If I go to a Protestant church in London or Amsterdam or listen to a black choir, I hear four-part harmony. Italians could never do that. In Italy, we all have to sing the melody because we cannot harmonise. — Gian Carlo Menotti

When I throw back my head and howl
People (women mostly) say
But you've always done what you want,
You always get your way
- A perfectly vile and foul
Inversion of all that's been.
What the old ratbags mean
Is I've never done what I don't.

So the shit in the shuttered chateau
Who does his five hundred words
Then parts out the rest of the day
Between bathing and booze and birds
Is far off as ever, but so
Is that spectacled schoolteaching sod
(Six kids, and the wife in pod,
And her parents coming to stay)...

Life is an immobile, locked,
Three-handed struggle between
Your wants, the world's for you, and (worse)
The unbeatable slow machine
That brings what you'll get. Blocked,
They strain round a hollow stasis
Of havings-to, fear, faces.
Days sift down it constantly. Years.

--The Life with the Hole in It — Philip Larkin

According to the FBI and the director of national intelligence, Syria's becoming a perfect platform to strike our nation. I've got a very simple strategy as your president against ISIL. Whatever it takes, as long as it takes, to defeat them. — Lindsey Graham

I mean I've never been thrown in jail in New York or Los Angeles. — Sebastian Bach

One is that we stand - my two confreres and I - in some degree as representatives of a great number of fellow workers over the entire world, who are enthusiastically active in this field of ours. — Haldan Keffer Hartline