Being Quotes

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

It's all about people. It's about networking and being nice to people and not burning any bridges. Your book is going to impress, but in the end it is people that are going to hire you.

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world - but it doesn't happen twice.

I never thought that the long haired, bearded guy I married in law school would end up being President.

I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.

Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.

We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else.

I loved Rent when I first heard it, but it grew on me and so did Tick, Tick... Boom. Some songs are more interesting than others and sometimes the ones that never stood out at first end up being the best to perform.

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

I have a feeling that being in love sometimes means the projection of your desires onto another person. The important thing is that you like the other person, respect the other person and want to raise children with the other person.

We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That's life. And it's part of living in such a diverse and dense city. But we also recognize that part of being a New Yorker is living with your neighbors in mutual respect and tolerance. It was exactly that spirit of openness and acceptance that was attacked on 9/11, 2001.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.

I believe in love, children and being a good person.

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.

Unfortunately, modeling takes you with no transition from being a girl to being a business woman.

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.