Being Quotes

I'm a shy human being.

Government is taking 40 percent of the GDP. And that's at the state, local and federal level. President Obama has taken government spending at the federal level from 20 percent to 25 percent. Look, at some point, you cease being a free economy, and you become a government economy. And we've got to stop that.

The second song is called 'Easy As Life,' which really describes the complete conflict of the whole story, her struggle of being in love with the enemy and also being in love with her people.

Like it or not children are being raised by gay and lesbian parents all over America - as many as 10 million children. And it does nothing to make their lives more stable and secure to attack their families, to attack their parents to prevent us from marrying each other.

But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.

I do not think about being beautiful. What I devote most of my time to is being healthy.

Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

The greatest thing about where my life is right now is it's very relaxed and chill. I'm just hanging out, being myself and doing my work.

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

And regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never thought of it that way. I've always thought it to be important. The last time I looked, the Greeks were holding up two masks. I've always thought of it not only as having equal value, but as the craft of it, being funny.

Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

I'm happy, and I think being happy keeps you looking young.

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.

I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect.

A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it's a spiritual fight.

Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.

I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.