Being Quotes

To be honest, I'm scared to death of rollercoaster rides.

Nobody ever told you that being a mother is all about making what seemed like thousands of tiny decisions.

I’m not interested in being polite. It’s false.

Being famous gives you a lot of illusions of false self, of self-importance, a grandiosity, it becomes difficult to stay humble and real. You see so many people who don't succeed.

Youth take responsibility for your own spiritual well being

Just be yourself, be you and that's how I think you're going to feel the most confident.

I wouldn't change being married. It was good for me, and I was happy for a period of time, and I learned a lot about myself.

At the end of the day, every media entity is in the business of selling soap. They're not afraid of being popular.

There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that alternate universe where SCO would be right, they'd still be wrong.

There's something about being there, on the set, in costume, in the moment, where you start to get a feel for the scene, which is not the same as sitting in your office writing it.

It's really hard to balance work and being a mother.

Maybe you don't have to remember something for it to be true. For it to exist.

I'm not creating the universe. I'm creating a model of the universe, which may or may not be true.

You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring.

I always say that everyone has to start by being true to themselves.

Being loved is a good thing. A grand thing. The best damned thing of all.

Being a mom myself and it being a huge and important part of who I am, made it easier for me to play the role of a strong, fierce, giving mom...

It was part of being a girl in the '60s that you were creative.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

When your kid is being selfish or greedy and you want to help them not be that way, you have to find a way to articulate it and inspire them.

Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him.

Why do we like being Irish? Partly because It gives us a hold on the sentimental English As members of a world that never was, Baptized with fairy water

Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of love. I now allow this love to flow to the surface.

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape. 'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.

Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.

I think that hurting gives us a way to measure being happy. How can you know one without knowing the other.

I just really feel so grateful to Sundance because I've always been an artist and I've never been able to make a living at being an artist until Sundance.

old age is more bearable if it can be helped by an early acceptance of being loved and of loving.

The interesting part is, that being the United States Secretary of State, most places I went didn't have a problem with me being a woman, because I was representing the United States.

If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.

If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

Somehow, throughout much of life, being old seems to be something that happens to other people.

A lot of writing about being a mother is not so much writing about the kids themselves. They become placeholders for the shift that happens when you're suddenly in charge of other people.

Boys,' she says, 'just aren't very good at being afraid.

Sam looked at me, yellow eyes catching and holding me. "I miss being me. I miss you. All the time.

You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death.

The Attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of nonviolence for each

Nonviolence which to me is the glory of Hinduism, has been sought to be explained away by our people as being meant for the sanyasis only.

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

I read a lot, almost anything and everything. I make an effort to use any knowledge I attain and express my opinions even at the risk of being wrong at times.

I don't have a problem with being a woman. Women's bodies are so beautiful.

Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.

When did we stop being people, being human?

It's weird to have to jump in to being married with somebody, but it was really easy.

Being honest...[to reporters] Not the worst thing in the world. Don't write that down.

Danny DeVito later told me that he knew he wanted me for 'Matilda' the second I walked in the door. I'm not sure if this is true, or if he was just being nice, but I was thrilled when I got it.

Discoveries made during the last hundred years have shown that liberalism is the best system to improve a country's well being.

I'm not against people just being funny or telling stories. I don't need to delve into the soft, dark core all the time. If it happens, it happens.

I really romanticized being pregnant. Then I realized, this is awful!