Being Quotes

A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

No person in the world ever lost anything by being nice to me.

Because of my parents' love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia - first by Hitler and then by Stalin.

A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.

I can never really enjoy being famous.

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

I don't like being in houses alone.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.

What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.

To me, being the best means proving it in different countries and championships.

I still love things that you don't even need to pay for. Going to the beach and being around five of your friends and having a good time means so much more than going out and spending hundreds of dollars.

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

My task over the last two years hasn't just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

We are at war to liberate Iraq, to protect the people of the United States and other countries from the devastating impact of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction being used by terrorists or the Iraqi government to kill thousands of innocent civilians.

I'm excited about there being more of a sisterhood these days. Back in the '90s there was a lot of hate - the women I looked up to as artists were dissing me! It's not so patriarchal these days - there's more love and a lot less hate!

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.

Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.