Being Quotes

Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

I'm happy, and I think being happy keeps you looking young.

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.

I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect.

A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it's a spiritual fight.

Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.

I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.

I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.

I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let's just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.

The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

To all the girls out there who think being funny is not sexy, you are wrong!

My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.