Being Quotes

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.

I love New York, but being there the whole year, it gets a little crazy with the speed and rhythm of things.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.

I love being verbal in films.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

Being a teenager is as difficult as living with one. And we've all been there. Perhaps that's the reason we're so hard on them.

Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

I don't particularly like being pregnant. I like the baby at the end. Pregnancy is a very distant thing for me. I can't seem to believe there's really a baby there. It's such a miracle.

I leave before being left. I decide.

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.

I don't see anything wrong with being comfortable with my own skin.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.

I'm always afraid that I'm being unprofessional, yet I continue to sign all my e-mails 'xoxo.'

Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.

I think knowing people by first names, not by what they do sexually, is really what it's about. Not being afraid. Fear is the enemy. I've always been comfortable with being gay.

I mean, I like to think of myself as being strong and independent, but I definitely wasn't like that at 14.

When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.