Being Quotes

I like being full, every day, with stuff that I have to do.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.

We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen.

I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.

We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.

American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.

I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her.

If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees.

Being stylish is about enjoying your life and expressing yourself and your inner light.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

I may have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

There is this power that comes with being famous.

Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

It is a process of discovery. It's being quiet enough and undisturbed enough for a period of time so that the songs can begin to sort of peek out, and you begin to have emotional experiences in a musical way.

I'm not averse to being in big commercial films.

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.