Being Quotes

Being a father ... I can't help feeling that, by comparison with being a mother, being a father is a rather abstract business.

Being famous is like a dream come true but it's really difficult because you lose your freedom. I don't want to lose being a kid.

Friendship is being there when someone's feeling low and not being afraid to kick them.

Being alone in our present society raises an important question about identity and well-being.

But then I had long mistaken being spoiled for being strong, being defiant for being independent, being reckless for being brave.

Being good to somebody is just like being mean to somebody. Risky. You don't get nothing for it.

Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented.

I am already experiencing something better than being a pop star and that's being a father. It's the best job in the world. A lot of work, but a lot of fun.

I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.

As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.

I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored

Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to be anything else?

At the end of the day, so many things that we hold so much value with, it just doesn't even mean anything. I really try to stay focused on being really positive.

Our Faith will never be true unless it is united to that of St. Peter and the Pontiff, his successors.

Being alone is almost always preferable to being with the wrong person.

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me,and drench me in loneliness.

When you become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanised

There's no single more powerful or simpler daily practice to further your health and well being than breath work.

The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.

I spent my first 50 years trying to become known as a writer and the next 30 trying to avoid being famous. I walk down the street or go to a football game and people shout, 'Hey Andy'. I hate that.

I just want to scream: "I'm being honest, I swear!" Maybe it's embarrassing, but I don't care anymore.

The whole point of being an artist is to have no agenda. To say, you know, I don't know what I am going to do tomorrow, I don't know what it's going to look like, and I'm going to have a go at it.

The way football is being played currently, that I have seen, it's dangerous. It's dangerous and it could impact their long-term mental health. You only get one brain.

There is a huge amount of shame connected to the feeling of not being loved, because love and family, biological or not, confirms our existence. Everyone needs to be seen, accepted and loved.

I don't like being successful; the subjects which sit in my head are annoyed and jealous of what has already been written.

I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.

If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.

You cant get very far in this world without your dossier being there first.

To me, I'm always trying to look for the energy, to imagine in being played on the dance floor. I guess that's the most important thing in making music for me.

When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.

I'm lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.

If you really want to be successful in the business, you have to make that your priority, above family and everything else. It takes up every minute of your life.

Being a conservative also used to involve the concept of people being free to do whatever they want to do, as long as it doesn't hurt somebody else. Conservatives used to be very libertarian.

Being a king, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother.

There's no substitute to being successful on an actual chart.

I think there is a danger there of being mean to people and humiliating people and embarrassing people just because it might get you ratings. It is a disturbing trend.

'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise.

I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.

Being a father makes everything in the world make sense.

I'm really enjoying being single. I'm not even looking to meet anybody, which is so freeing.

Well being is a condition one has to groom, a condition one has to become aquainted with in order to seek it

The worst thing about being strong is no one recognizes the beauty in strength or the love behind it.

I don't think that most women have to prove that they're real women. You live long enough, you graduate to being real.

there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late

One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.

I'm tired of ignoring that I march to a different beat.

If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.

I believe that engaging in the political process is part of being a good person.

Life is different than it was in the Nineties. I'm a dad, and there are other things I have to get done in an afternoon than just being an artist.

Being misunderstood is not a bad thing as an actor. I know the truth.