Being Quotes

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

I needed some stability, which is why I chose not to change from HRC for this season, which was an option that we had. Apart from being the best team in the world, I also needed some consistency.

There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader.

We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

First of all, every new company today is being built in the face of massive economic headwinds, making the challenge far greater than it was in the relatively benign '90s.

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

Bullying is killing our kids. Being different is killing our kids and the kids who are bullying are dying inside. We have to save our kids whether they are bullied or they are bullying. They are all in pain.

Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually.

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

It's an ongoing joy being a dad.

Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

I never thought I was funny, but I enjoy being funny.

Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of the recovery. Because those green dollars are the hardest working dollars in the history of American politics. That same dollar that is being used to cut energy bills, is also cutting global warming gas emissions, is also cutting unemployment, is also cutting poverty, through retrofits it's also raising the value of homes, is also by cleaning the air, cutting asthma rates.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways, that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life.

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.

Something about New York, man: You can do more comedy there probably than you can anywhere in the world. If you're interested in being funny, New York is the place to go.

People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

I was obsessed with being rich and famous.

I like being full, every day, with stuff that I have to do.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.

We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.