Being Quotes

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

As a professional, I think we're not being judged solely on technical ability anymore. People really want to be entertained and enjoy what they're watching.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.

I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.

A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.

What you don't see are the cameras shoved in my face and the bizarre intrusive questions being asked, or the people falling over themselves, screaming and taunting to get a reaction.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too.

Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for it to change; and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn't have.

My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.

So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being honest with themselves, whether you're talking about Common and Mos Def or Nas and 50 cent.

I do understand what it is to not want to commit to someone, knowing that might bring pain or commit to a life that has to do with being responsible to people other than myself. These things, I think, are normal things.

'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'

The battalion, the whole battalion was affected by the two killed just within a week of being there, and I think that that pulled everybody up to make them realise that this was a very serious business.

I've realised that when I don't play people who are complex I get very, very bored, and then lazy, and end up being rubbish.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Much of my work has come from being lazy.

When I hear people talk about juggling, or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at them like they're crazy, because 'sacrifice' infers that there was something better to do than being with your children.

Man - a being in search of meaning.