Being Quotes

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.

There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.

Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it.

The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.

But no one frees himself from being in love in three days.

I went from being the Terminator to being the governator.

I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.

I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.

I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

Just going along with this, what I did, or what I do is I imagine not being myself seeing it, but imagine somebody else who's seeing it for the first time.

There will be certain points of time when everything collides together and reaches critical mass around a new concept or a new thing that ends up being hugely relevant to a high percentage of people or businesses. But it's really really hard to predict those. I don't believe anyone can.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

I'd rather not have a moment when I'm known for my looks; being funny and interesting lasts longer.

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.