Being Quotes

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet.

You want to feel that you can do something creative that you love without being picked apart and mutilated for other people's pleasure.

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

Business in Russia was not being done like in the West, with contracts. In Russia, hundreds of millions of dollars were going forward and backward by word of mouth.

I've learned that people latch onto labels and stereotypes. There was a period when I was asked in every single interview how I liked being the new Frank Sinatra... I think people will soon realize that I do a lot more than interpret old songs.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.

We were delighted to have Nigel as a producer. The only problem is that Nigel is so famous that he seems to dominate most interviews without being there.

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.

Being is the great explainer.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

Being offended is part of being in the real world.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.

I think the best thing about being pregnant would definitely have to be seeing just my belly grow and seeing, like, wow, there is, you know, something inside of me.

Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.

I don't think people were betting on me, but they were giving me a chance. I think I rode a wave there, by being different in appearance than the girls who preceded me.

Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of the recovery. Because those green dollars are the hardest working dollars in the history of American politics. That same dollar that is being used to cut energy bills, is also cutting global warming gas emissions, is also cutting unemployment, is also cutting poverty, through retrofits it's also raising the value of homes, is also by cleaning the air, cutting asthma rates.

I don't work at being ordinary.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

That, we encourage, and I think we're doing a pretty good job with the website and also the DVD, like the first season came out and the second season's being prepared now.

After being on the court for six hours, being on TV is very glamorous and fun for me. But tennis is always going to be my priority. It's not going to be this thing when all of a sudden TV will get in the way of that.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.

I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.