Being Quotes

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I'll get it right one day.

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions. What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being 'found out.' It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

First, do enough training. Then believe in yourself and say: I can do it. Tomorrow is my day. And then say: the person in front of me, he is just a human being as well; he has two legs, I have two legs, that is all. That is mentally how you prepare.

I love being famous - it's phenomenal.

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

One thing I do personally started 20 years ago. I started meditating, and I know twice a day I can kind of let everything drop. It's just about being quiet, like drawing back the day, and it allows me to have energy.

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.

I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - talking about the idea that you're watching a movie. You're sitting here watching a movie. And I like that. It appeals to me intellectually, and also in a way I can't even explain.

If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.

There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

I intentionally aided them by being there and blocking an avenue of escape for the victims.

Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

Being happy is very important. We won our second championship last season and we have our entire team coming back to try and defend our title again. I'm very proud of that.