Being Quotes

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.

Technically, I've learned that having good legs and wind is good for being on stage. You have to be in shape and have endurance.

But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.

People with insufficient personalities are fond of cats. These people adore being ignored.

Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.

Hotness is uniqueness and just being yourself - that's hot.

The low points I had all helped make up my character, so I probably wouldn't want to do away with them because I like being flawed and I like having them help me grow and change and become better and stronger.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be.

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.

I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.

I enjoy not being a public company.

Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it.

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.

But now there are more concussions due to not being used to the hard hitting.

To me glamour isn't about being sparkly.

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

If I spend a Saturday being lazy and curled up on the couch with my dogs, I'll just make sure to get out and be active on Sunday.

Being a Victoria's Secret model, which was always my dream.

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.