Being Quotes

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

One is often guilty by being too just.

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one's field. Public perks. Like, I don't know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two.

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

I realize that homosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is - but then, of course, heterosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is, too. And being a man is a serious problem and being a woman is, too. Lots of things are problems.

I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.

Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think.

There are a lot of things that are personally uncomfortable to show, especially me without makeup and completely bloated or crying. But I've realized that it's time for me to show my audience that you don't have to be perfect to achieve your dreams. Because nobody relates to being perfect.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.

But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.

A lot of girls think they have to choose between being the smart geeky type or the beautiful bimbo.

I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ass off to get out of it as soon as possible.

If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees.

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Certain people are like 'Oh, here come the Feminazis!' You end up acting 10 times nicer than you even need to be, to be the opposite of the stereotype like 'You're the man haters!' We're always bending over backwards being extra nice. And I don't know if being nice is my legacy.

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

I do not like being famous. I like being normal.

The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.