Being Quotes

Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.

Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.

I enjoy being single, but I loved being married.

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

I feel I'd like to share my luck and my life. Being in love is the best thing in the world.

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

I'm quite into the idea of engineering being beautiful.

Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

When I'm trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.

Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating.

A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have.

Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices and became what many would consider the first black man's president.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

I do recognize the most valuable work being done across the country is that work being done inside the four walls in our homes. And let us not forget how important the work of the mother and father are to raising responsible citizens.

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking of what they'll do musically, I try to imagine being locked into a windowless room with this person for twelve hours at a time. If you can look at that and think it might be fun then maybe you've got the right musician.

The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.

If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we can blame the state governments; but in the end, it's the mayors and the local city governments that have to be prepared for emergencies and be prepared to act.

I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.

It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

'Born this Way' is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.