Being Quotes

The greatest tragedy that can befall a poet is to be praised by being misunderstood.

Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.

Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good.

Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite.

If I'm strong, I'm not going to apologize for being strong.

In the native world, major gods come in trios, duos, and groups. It is the habit of non-natives to discover the supreme being, the one and only head god, a habit lent to them by monotheism.

It is really important for women to look up and see other women being successful. When I was in that position, all I wanted to do was blend in and be one of the guys.

Being afraid of having an endoscopy (if you're a man) and giving birth (if you're a woman).

A warrior of light knows that certain impossible battles are worth fighting and so he/she is not afraid of being disappointed, knowing the power of his/her love.

I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.

Some other things I don't miss: the media and the pressure of just being asked to do, and being asked questions every day.

There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time.

You never think of films being really creepy that you're in because you just remember the funny stuff.

Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person.

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

Stress is something that makes you feel you can't be yourself.

Whatever may be his true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution. This is the character of all life and being.

That's not what I'm looking forward to, just being home and just kind of not really sure kind of what to do with myself.

To get from people you had to give a piece of yourself, a real piece that mattered. Just being nice was not enough.

We're both [with Mark Wahlberg] capable of being sarcastic, vicious, violent lunatics, but we hold each other in check, appeal to the best aspects of each other.

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

What I love about being a member of KISS is that we're the 'John Glenns' of rock - we always have to be the first in anything we do, and I love that.

Since we are [Christ's] body, we too are the bread that is broken for others. Our failures help heal other lives; our very tears help wipe away tears; our being hated helps those we love.

Acting is about covering up traces of who you are and just being the character. I think it's easier to accept people in roles if you don't know a lot about them.

I'm just gonna be real grateful to be on any freaking movie set for the rest of my life.

I was like one of those people who is allergic to the twentieth century... I'd been brought up to think there was some order to things, but there was no safety net. Doctors accused me of being mad.

I think that I probably inevitably fetishize nature, although I try not to, because it's kind of embarrassing, repulsive behavior. I think it's just an extension of me being old-fashioned.

Originality is being different from oneself, not others.

The difficult part of love Is being selfish enough.

Being with a kid always takes you to being a kid somehow, and they really are showing me a childhood I might not have had in some way.

I'm one of those perverse people who likes being alone. I always took myself to be a community of one. That's what I am comfortable with.

Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love, because suddenly all your senses are at the setting marked “on.

Until I was about 14, I was a fat boy, or at least I looked like a fat boy. I think that being funny was a bit of a defence mechanism for me, so I ended up being a bit of a joker.

Being in love is a very strange thing.

My surroundings have always been conducive to achieving what you want and believing in self 100 per cent; not being afraid to stand up and voice your opinion.

If you're a freelance writer and aren't used to being ignored, neglected, and generally given short shrift, you must not have been in the business very long.

I miss the guys, and I miss playing baseball. Just being able to swing the bat, or run, or dive for a ball, or slide into second.

A god could hardly love and be wise.

I just like ladies who have class... just be yourself and let your personality shine and let your individuality show. To me, that's sexier. A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion

As far as I know, you can fancy someone, you can enjoy their company or you can wish them well. But what being in love is, I don't know.

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

I'm attracted to things that make me want to be a better person.

I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.

I still want what I've always wanted ... to be the best person I can be.

Life has taught me to just be the best I can be.

I decided to be the best and the smartest.

Don't worry about being successful. Worry about being significant.

Being a mother is the hardest job on earth. Women everywhere must declare it so.

This whole celebrity-fame thing is interesting. I'm the same person I always was. The only difference between being famous and not being famous is that people know who you are.

Just being born makes you worthy enough to be here