Being Quotes

Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.

As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.

The moment you start being in love with what you're doing, and thinking it's beautiful or rich, then you're in danger.

For me, there's a fine line between being a cheeseball and being a good performer.

When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process.

I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.

Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.

Freedom lies in being bold.

I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.

This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we're on right now, our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.

You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.

And I've come to the place where I believe that there's no way to solve these problems, these issues - there's nothing that we can do that will solve the problems that we have and keep the peace, unless we solve it through God, unless we solve it in being our highest self. And that's a pretty tall order.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome.

Women like being kissed.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.