Being Quotes

I'm afraid of making a mistake. I'm not totally neurotic, but I'm pretty neurotic about it. I'm as close to totally neurotic as you can get without being totally neurotic.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

I don't follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, 'Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so.' I just like being myself.

I was brought up in a way that when you're at a dinner party, you don't grab a chip unless it's been offered to everyone else. It's the manners of being brought up by English parents.

You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.

It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

I had a fear of being alone.

I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!

I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have.

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.