Being Quotes

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?

The only thing Martha and I have in common is that we both used to model. Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.

Being strong can be also feminine. I don't think feminine equals being weak. Being strong is very sexy.

As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.

One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Money never prevented anyone from being happy or unhappy.

The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.

I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.

I'm so accustomed to being alone.

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I'll get it right one day.

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions. What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being 'found out.' It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

First, do enough training. Then believe in yourself and say: I can do it. Tomorrow is my day. And then say: the person in front of me, he is just a human being as well; he has two legs, I have two legs, that is all. That is mentally how you prepare.

I love being famous - it's phenomenal.

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.