Being Quotes

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.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen.

I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.

We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.

American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.

I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her.