Being Quotes

Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.

It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you can't be aware of what you're doing that's tough and brave at the time that you're doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you'd be scared.

A risk-free life is far from being a healthy life.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work," because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing.

Inside every human being there are treasures to unlock.

I think there are many in the Democratic Party that want immigration to be unsolved issue at least for the time being, because it's more useful as a campaign issue than it is as a solved issue.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

As a professional, I think we're not being judged solely on technical ability anymore. People really want to be entertained and enjoy what they're watching.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.

I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.

A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.

What you don't see are the cameras shoved in my face and the bizarre intrusive questions being asked, or the people falling over themselves, screaming and taunting to get a reaction.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too.

Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for it to change; and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn't have.

My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.