Being Quotes

I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.

It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?

Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well, is not the novel I had in my mind. I think a lot of writers must negotiate this, and if they don't admit it, they're not being honest.

I'm not very good at being a wife because I break all the rules.

I am just one human being.

Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.

'Born this Way' is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.

I'm a shy human being.

Government is taking 40 percent of the GDP. And that's at the state, local and federal level. President Obama has taken government spending at the federal level from 20 percent to 25 percent. Look, at some point, you cease being a free economy, and you become a government economy. And we've got to stop that.

The second song is called 'Easy As Life,' which really describes the complete conflict of the whole story, her struggle of being in love with the enemy and also being in love with her people.

Like it or not children are being raised by gay and lesbian parents all over America - as many as 10 million children. And it does nothing to make their lives more stable and secure to attack their families, to attack their parents to prevent us from marrying each other.

But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.

I do not think about being beautiful. What I devote most of my time to is being healthy.

Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

The greatest thing about where my life is right now is it's very relaxed and chill. I'm just hanging out, being myself and doing my work.

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

And regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never thought of it that way. I've always thought it to be important. The last time I looked, the Greeks were holding up two masks. I've always thought of it not only as having equal value, but as the craft of it, being funny.

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.