Being Quotes

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Being in your forties - any woman who isn't there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.

I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn't understand what being an actor meant anymore.

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.

I direct with energy. I believe in energy. I think energy is an electric thing in actors. I try to inspire, encourage, and make choices with lots of energy. And truth. I'm big fan of truth and being funny. I like leading 50 people into battle every day.

Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.

I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.

Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of the recovery. Because those green dollars are the hardest working dollars in the history of American politics. That same dollar that is being used to cut energy bills, is also cutting global warming gas emissions, is also cutting unemployment, is also cutting poverty, through retrofits it's also raising the value of homes, is also by cleaning the air, cutting asthma rates.

At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.

I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.

A human being is only breath and shadow.

Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.

I really don't like going out. I don't like restaurants because I don't like the idea of someone, a waitress, being responsible for my evening. I like seconds, and more, and lots of conversation, and I've always hated the idea that in a restaurant an evening just ends. I find that incredibly depressing.

It's hard sometimes to not want to know what people are saying behind your back and to ignore certain things that are being written.

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities.

I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor.

I realised how paranoid and guarded and not trusting - walled-in - I had become. Not consciously so, but just this armour that I kind of have, protective armour. It's not for my friends or family, but for being.outside in the world, always on guard.

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We're all passing through; the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish.

Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.

I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.

Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.

I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.