Being Quotes

Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free.

When you get pure joy out of 'being' rather than 'doing' or 'seeing,' that's when you realize how big and unexplainable some things are and being a dad is one of those very few things.

Being a dad is more important than football.

If something is worth being rude about, it is worth understanding as well.

I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what's more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals I get a little hung up on.

When things are not working for us, instead of fighting and struggling, we need to say, "What's happening here? How am I not being true to who I am? What is pulling me away from my purpose?"

Normally when people say they haven't decided, they're being polite but they're definitely not voting for you. I think it's different this time. People are thinking hard about the issues.

I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest.

I'm being honest, I say what I think.

I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I've always felt blessed.

I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us.

Again, talent is the real import of being in the business.

Ive never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didnt choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

This is what you work for, putting all the other crap that you hear aside. Just being able to participate in a World Series is pretty much everything. But you do want to win!

Being comedic is a skill, because there is a fine line where the context is important. And being dramatic is just being honest and real in that moment.

I handle fame by not being famous...I'm not famous to me.

That's my policy - to be positive, to just hope that something will happen. If you start with all your fears, your receptivity is for the negative.

I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There.

As I have gotten older, I've discovered the joys of being lazy.

That's just how I see things. I think things that are the most dramatic or tragic can also look the most ridiculous and funny. That's part of being human.

There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real.

Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.

I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter.

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let's just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different.

It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live.

It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold.

I am a serious artist in my own right, in the sense that I've spent my entire life being an artist and trying to be an artist and making work.

In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends.

For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night's rest.

I think stress is anything going on in our lives that impinges on our capacity to have optimum well being.

Being a lady is a frightfully troublesome assignment, since it comprises mainly in managing men.

If you want to be successful at being yourself, you’re going to have to take a chance on not being like everyone else.

Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.

Almost all negative moods are missing one key element - calm. By learning calm, you learn to deal with difficult areas. Calm allows us to achieve what we want, without being overwhelmed by anxiety.

What you want to do is, you want to get away from people being afraid to show their work, which is the first thing, because they don't want to be shot down.

Base your happiness on being real, not on illusions and expectations.

Don't just be yourself. Be all of your selves.

Love and meaningful relationships are vital to physical and emotional well-being.

I don't think of any sentence as a "one-liner", but I do pay attention to how people actually speak when they are being funny. Rhythm is key.

We are all going through some sort of struggle, so I try to keep that in mind when someone makes me angry. I also know that being positive is a choice, and I try to make that choice every day.

A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.

Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.

A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.

I realized that acting was the thing I was still maybe the best at. Of the things I felt like I was good at, that was the thing that came the most naturally to me.

My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.

I am a clairaudient healer. My specialty is being able to discern the blocks within a person's energy that are prohibiting them from being free, happy, and powerful.

Advice I would give to anyone trying to find their own personal style: don't copy anybody, just be yourself, and make your own trends.

When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.

I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me.