Being Quotes

I will throw all my best efforts into it, my thoughts and political observations, but ultimately I want to create a narrative that keeps you turning the pages and leaves you with a sense that this thing has a reason for being there.

I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.

Being the Republican front-runner was three of the most exciting hours of my entire life. I've come to grips with it, and the only lasting effect is that I refuse to go on a stage that has more than one podium on it.

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.

Embryonic stem cell research is legal in America, and nothing in the administration's current policy affects that legality; 400 lines are currently being used to conduct embryonic stem cell research, both in the private sector and by the Federal Government.

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

I'm older than I was, and I'm still washed-up, and I haven't changed my music one iota. It's just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you.

If I was afraid of being killed, I would never speak out against the government.

Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick.

I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.

Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.

We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

When two kids are being completely berserk, and they're naked and throwing food around, sometimes I just let it go because I can see a future where they're going to be dressed, and they're going to be at school. So I kind of let stuff go sometimes.

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.

Being a Barrymore didn't help me, other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.

My parents sacrificed so much for all of us. It makes me want to give back to them by being the best I can be.

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.

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

I don't like being lied to, so I only lie about the stupid things. White lies, basically.

I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.