Top 100 Being The Quotes
#1. I talk about Africa and its meaning, being the birthplace of man and all that great history that's been erased and even hidden. I think it's my duty to be proud and to bring about the conversation that allows us to talk about the great history of my people.
Nas
#2. It's not easy being the sane one!
Charmaine
#3. There's no such thing as a limit on being the best. You can always go for more. That's what it means to be human. No... That's what it means to be me. - Claire Stanfield
Ryohgo Narita
#4. There are three roles one can play as a homosexual: one involving being the daddy to someone who is the son, another, therefore, being the sonny to that pop, the third involving looking for yourself in someone approximately identical to you.
Larry Kramer
#5. We need strong school board members who know right from wrong. The Bible, being the only true source of right and wrong, should be the guide of board members. Only godly Christians can truly qualify for this critically important position ...
Robert Simonds
#6. Being the ideal of a strong woman means utilizing all the things that God gives you. People are always saying to me, 'You're a strong female, so why are you wearing a bikini on the cover of that magazine?' Being a strong woman is misconstrued to be something evil and ugly.
Kelis
#7. I don't mind being the brunt of a joke, so long as it's a good one.
Joey McIntyre
#8. How could I pretend to be someone else when I was already failing at being the person I already was?
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
#9. When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.
Lauren Graham
#10. I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.
Oscar Wilde
#11. It was less fun being the chosen one and prophet when the gods were violent and capricious and their spokesman was insane and powerless.
James S.A. Corey
#12. Success in spiritual life lies not in being the Best, but doing the Best.
Radhanath Swami
#13. I didn't always know, but I always wanted to. I always wanted to be the very best receiver the Cowboys ever had. That was my goal coming in as a rookie and my goal throughout my career: being the best they ever had, going up in the Ring of Honor.
Michael Irvin
#14. I put a lot into it, and when I am done playing, I plan on going undercover and then being the sheriff or chief of police somewhere, either Miami or Orlando, I don't know yet.
Shaquille O'Neal
#15. I'm used to being the main goal scorer, but I also always like to help.
Luis Suarez
#16. I'd like to have younger people around me and that I'll be involved with them a lot more now, as opposed to me being the main focal point.
Bootsy Collins
#17. I think you can find yourself in life perhaps not really being the master of your own life and it is within your own will and tenacity whether you switch the roles or not.
Mark Lanegan
#18. You can't be a good economist unless you're also a good psychologist. Or a good engineer without being the right kind of metaphysician.
Aldous Huxley
#19. The birth certificate of the royal baby lists her parents' occupations as being 'the prince and princess of the United Kingdom.' It says that under occupation, which I guess sounds better than 'unemployed.'
Conan O'Brien
#20. I think sometimes in life the biggest challenges end up being the best things that happen in your life.
Tom Brady
#21. I mean, I had probably an illusion of being the wife that, you know, I wanted to create a home. I wanted to have children. I wanted him to be a husband. It was never going to be that way. It couldn't be that way.
Priscilla Presley
#22. I didn't care about being the 'star.' I just wanted to make a living and have a consistent career.
Angie Dickinson
#23. Being the only writer on a successful show is very rewarding.
Steven Moffat
#24. Remember that the successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person.
Carrie Snow
#25. Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.
Frederick Douglass
#26. One of the more challenging things in life is not being the guy who does the cheating, but not saying anything about it and going along with it.
Dale Murphy
#27. Being the 8th out of 10 kids, and being the one that stayed in trouble, I sort of became a momma's boy.
Bo Jackson
#28. A lot of girls think they have to choose between being the smart geeky type or the beautiful bimbo.
Danica McKellar
#29. To bestow on your fellow men is a Godlike attribute
So indeed it is and as such not one fit for mortality;
the giver, like Adam and Prometheus, must pay the penalty of rising above his nature by being the martyr of his own excellence.
Mary Shelley
#30. The world as it is is the world as God sees it, not as we see it. Our vision is distorted, not so much by the limits of finitude as by sin and ignorance. But the more we raise ourselves in the scale of being, the more will our ideas about God and the world correspond to reality.
William R. Inge
#31. I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved on from being the supporter in the active day-to-day sense of Tony Blair.
Peter Mandelson
#32. Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
LaToya London
#33. For instead of being "the ardent pursuer of science" that some imagined, Jefferson was the captive of ambition, and ambition, Adams told John Quincy, was "the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field . . . [and] wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner.
David McCullough
#34. President Abraham Lincoln once remarked, "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." Few people have more power than an American president. Being the so-called leader
John C. Maxwell
#35. You can only avoid responsibility for so long. The catalyst ended up being the law coming down and finally saying, 'You guys suspended judgement and that's fine, because we're not.'
Rosario Dawson
#36. I don't think anything less than perfect, even though I'm a human being. The way I work and go at things is to better myself in perfect terms.
Kevin Garnett
#37. In short, we do not abandon any discipline for despair of ever being the best in it.
Epictetus
#38. Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government, that alone is a just government which impartially secures to every man whatever is his own.
James Madison
#39. Being the "best you can be" is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets, not people.
Sue Johnson
#40. We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.
Karl Popper
#41. Well I am glad I have something of the fool in my disposition
foolishness being the only quality that makes wisdom possible.
Marie Corelli
#42. I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl.
Robin Tunney
#43. In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass.
Bruce Springsteen
#44. Marketers have to move upstream now. We have to stop being the last step in the process and start being the first step.
Seth Godin
#45. Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been so long regarded as being the physical space of our experience.
Arthur Cayley
#46. Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.
Charles Baudelaire
#47. When the pain of being the same becomes greater than the pain of being different, you change.
Deepak Chopra
#48. I think people have always liked in me the combination of being the underdog because I'm a tiny woman but I have enormous authority in myself.
Linda Hunt
#49. Most whites do not have a racial identity, but they would do well to understand what race means for others. They should also ponder the consequences of being the only group for whom such an identity is forbidden and who are permitted no aspirations as a group.
Jared Taylor
#50. That ain't me, that ain't my face. It wasn't even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn't even really me them; I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted.
Ken Kesey
#51. Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was.
Stevie Nicks
#52. Pundits these days keep jabbering and hooting about the Internet being the greatest advancement. Web this, web that, and let the resident spider suck the life out of you.
Rabih Alameddine
#53. I needed to step away from music because the truth was I couldn't be the dad I wanted to be to my kids. My truth was that I could not reconcile the two worlds - the entertainment world and being the dad I wanted to be in the present. You can't substitute time, you just can't.
Corey Hart
#55. Absolute size by itself is no indicator of success and achievement, let alone of managerial competence. Being the right size is.
Peter Drucker
#56. I had long hair since I was 17 years old. It was time for me to let go. I hated being the guy at the wedding in a suit with a ponytail.
Dave Grohl
#57. I got put into leadership roles very early in life from fifth grade, sixth grade. I always ended up being the quarterback or the leader of the sports teams, and it's kind of benefiting me now.
Tony Dungy
#58. She spied the rolled up hose and made a snap decision. This ended here and now.
The days of being the world's biggest pushover were over.
R.L. Mathewson
#59. This can shake you up, this business of things almost but not quite being the same. A pharmacy is not quite a drugstore; a brasserie is not quite a coffee shop; a lunch is not quite a lunch.
Adam Gopnik
#60. I'm having a blast being the music director at the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. It certainly is challenging for me, but I love challenges.
Joshua Bell
#61. The more flexible we become in our thinking and being, the more we open ourselves to self-awareness & growth.
James Van Praagh
#62. I'm not interested in just being the hot girl. I'm really goofy, and I love laughing, and that's such a big part of who I am.
Charlotte McKinney
#63. As an individual, and I have to say as a person of color, the thing about being an 'other' in America is I really feel like you're bilingual. I'm from a small town in Wisconsin, but even when I'm in New York and I'm working for MSNBC or CNN, you're used to being the only black person in the room.
John Ridley
#64. Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
Francis Bacon
#65. You're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but Earl Blackwell finally died, and I was on his blacklist every year for being the worst dressed person.
Meryl Streep
#66. Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds of my anonymity, even to walk a few yards in London, Paris or Frankfurt without being stopped.
Wole Soyinka
#67. There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.
Aristotle.
#68. I was a real mess at school. I got a bit of a reputation for being the weird girl: the girl who'd go silent randomly and just kind of write down replies to people's questions in a book.
Helen Oyeyemi
#69. At 15, I had to choose a vocational school, and I was delighted, of course, to go to culinary school. But learning the basics was not as exciting as being the chef I am today.
Eric Ripert
#70. I guess I cringe, because sometimes I don't even watch my live performances back. When I edit, it's this feeling of seeing my mistakes. It's always a mixture of loving characters, but being the artist that created it and not trying to go too deep in criticizing myself.
Kalup Linzy
#71. The toughest part has been getting used to being known. I've always been the guy in the background, being the actual artist is a whole new experience for me!
Ne-Yo
#72. Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories it is something organic, something that grows out of the material, and this being the case, it is different for every story of any account that has ever been written.
Flannery O'Connor
#73. As a human being, the way Jesus responded to God in faithful obedience and gave his life in service to other humans-is the pattern for all authentic humanity renewed by the Spirit of God.
Luke Timothy Johnson
#74. Pure consciousness expresses itself in millions of different forms but the root of consciousness is what we call Being, The Light, Universal Life, Spirit, I Am or God.
Christopher Dines
#75. This is a kindness, a thing done to another human being for no reason other than compassion. A private, dignified act of basic human decency, which history, being the bastard that it is, will probably neglect to commemorate. You
Alastair Reynolds
#76. the United States decided it was not going to intervene in Syria - at least for the time being. The Syrian opposition felt betrayed and abandoned. Worse, Syrians were now completely without hope, which is the most dangerous human condition. A man or woman with no hope is capable of anything.
Richard Engel
#77. Father Brown: ... one can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place
G.K. Chesterton
#78. So, if you have the emotion of always being the victim, you are always going to attract these people into your life to victimize you.
Tamra Oviatt
#79. Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent.
Thomas Jefferson
#80. Love is more about being the right person than finding the right person.
Barbara Bartlein
#81. Ever since I was a child, I have loved being the centre of attention, but similarly, I can't remember a time in my life that I haven't battled with all sorts of quandaries, fears and weaknesses.
Gerard Butler
#82. I understand being the villain is what people like. People play to that. They want to know about the villain.
Dwyane Wade
#83. Stop being the victim with the delusion that you're saving yourself. It's okay to let someone save you.
Shantaye Brown
#84. We, being the Western world, wouldn't let Russia off the hook on debt. So there were demands on debt servicing in the early days until they ran out of reserves. There was no real aid program, just a fictional aid program.
Jeffrey Sachs
#85. We can't help being the most interesting people in the room.
Courtney Milan
#86. I am still not used to being the possessor of such a grand title. I believe I shall have to start wearing a purple satin turban and carrying a lorgnette.
Mary Balogh
#87. When it comes to racial issues, I'm very passionate about young girls just loving who they are in their own skin. Because I remember going to an all-white school and being the only black girl in an all-white school, think - looking around me, thinking there's no one else here that looks like me.
Kelly Rowland
#88. The more I wrote, the more I became a human being. The writing may have seemed monstrous (to some) for it was a violation, but I became a more human individual because of it. I was getting the poison out of my system.
Henry Miller
#89. Nicknamed him the Zombie Kid, and that's what everyone was calling him. "Did you see the Zombie Kid yet?" Stuff like that gets around fast. And August knew it. It's hard enough being the new kid even when you have a normal face. Imagine having his face?
R.J. Palacio
#90. Afro-Caribbean influences are in me as a creative being the same way Spanish influences were in Picasso's work. I think the notion of labels - "black dancer, black choreographer" -is a ploy to divide and conquer, and to limit.
Garth Fagan
#91. I live by the code 'Kill them with kindness, blood everywhere;' for me, it's always about being the nicest kind of guy.
Lemon Andersen
#92. Love is seeking the good and being the good.
Erica Goros
#93. Why will any man be so impertinently officious as to tell me all prospect of a future state is only fancy and delusion? Is there any merit in being the messenger of ill news. If it is a dream, let me enjoy it, since it makes me both the happier and better man.
Joseph Addison
#94. Feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise.
Rumi
#95. I eventually grew into a pre-teen Marilyn Munster, that being the only option I could find that allowed for a) blonde hair, b) a fondness for frilly pink things and wearing ribbons in your hair, and c) hanging out with monsters.
Seanan McGuire
#97. Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#98. We need to understand that being an accomplice or accessory to those who seek to enslave our posterity, is no better than being the folks that are locking the chains themselves.
Matt Shea
#99. Matter is a medium of communication between minds, and everything that exists in the mind can also exist in the body. Furthermore, the body - being the expression of a mental state is developed as a manifestation of the mind.
Ashish Dalela
#100. If you think you can stand looking and not touching for eight months, you're welcome to try."
"Try' being the operative word," he said, sighing. "No, I can't. And I don't want to try.
Leah Raeder
