Top 100 Being What Quotes
#1. Circumstances being what they are, I haven't had the opportunity to fall in love. Have you?" "Yes,
Kiera Cass
#2. An educated person's ideas of Art are drwan naturally from what Art has been, whereas the new work of art is beautiful by being what Art has never been; and to measure it by the standard of the past is to measure it by a standard on the rejection of which its real perfection depends.
Oscar Wilde
#3. No doubt our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.
John Fowles
#4. Most times when I do a film, it starts out with one idea and ends up not being what I thought it was going to be.
Lee Daniels
#5. Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe
they should be. They become very self-abusive, and they use other people to abuse themselves as well.
Miguel Ruiz
#6. Why? Because true translation is not a binary affair between two languages but a triangular affair. The third point of the triangle being what lay behind the words of the original text before it was written. True translation demands a return to the pre-verbal
John Berger
#7. I know that there's a customary cliche about librarians being what crass people might call "hard-asses".
Leah Thomas
#8. Those who are not Free, can't even climb a Tree ... Forget about them being what they want to Be!-RVM
R.v.m.
#9. Human beings being what they are, order spreads, given half a chance, almost as fast as confusion.
Samuel R. Delany
#10. There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal, as if it were not a benefit and a joy to a man, being what he is, to know that many are, have been, and will be better than he.
George Santayana
#12. ...angry at the world for being what the world was, for what it had always been: a dangerous place that our human noise had made seem a whole lot safer.
Rick Yancey
#13. Yes, I would love to play one of the leads in one these movies and have all those challenges and deal with all those complications, but the business being what it is, there is a slot for me in these kinds of films, so I enjoy them, and I enjoy the people that I work with.
Joe Morton
#14. And because performing for a game involves real acting. The way they create a game is very similar now to how they create a film. I've always wanted to stretch my acting skills, and the timing being what it is, I couldn't say no.
Josie Maran
#15. People cain't help being what they are any more than a skunk can help being a skunk. Don't you think if they had their choice they would rather be something else? Sure they would. People are just weak.
Fannie Flagg
#16. Make good choices in order to manifest your true identity; manifest your true being. What others see in you now is just a mild photo of you. The wild copy is yet to come. Print that image; make it bigger!
Israelmore Ayivor
#17. In reviewing my life, in tracing its course, I fill my cell with the pleasure of being what for want of a trifle I failed to be, recapturing, so that I may hurl myself into them as into dark pits, those moments when I strayed through the trap-ridden compartments of a subterranean sky
Jean Genet
#18. It is not wrong to strive to be better than a fellow human being. Nor is it wrong to desire to be better or even to feel like oneself is better than a fellow human being. What is wrong is to gloat in one's own virtue. Therefore, gloating in one's own virtue is not virtuous.
Christopher Jones
#19. A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#20. A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting.
B.F. Skinner
#21. I can always sniff out when someone is being what they think I want them to be, which is the complete opposite. I really want a queen to be herself.
RuPaul
#22. The only way to be who you want to be is by being what you haven't yet been.
Sally Edwards
#23. I can't tell you why I was in love with her. People didn't require that much as they do now. Folks were expected to be civilized to one another, honest, and - and clear. You relied on people being what they said they were, because there was no other way to survive.
Toni Morrison
#25. A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying [God]. It "consents," so to speak, to [God's] creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree imitates God by being a tree
Thomas Merton
#26. Sometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new.
Marilyn Manson
#27. So, it ended up being what you have there, seven songs brand new and ten live songs which is a good mix.
Sebastian Bach
#28. A rose by any other name Would get the blame For being what it is
The colour of a kiss, The shadow of a flame. A rose may earn another name, So call it love; So call it love I will, And love is like the sea, Which changes constantly, And yet is still The same.
Tanith Lee
#29. The point is not to get hung up on being what you're supposed to be. If you can, it's good to do what pleases you.
Robert B. Parker
#30. Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
Paul Gauguin
#31. When you are being what you really are you absolutely flourish in the midst of absolutely everything.
John De Ruiter
#32. What is this, fundamentally? What is its nature and substance, its reason for being? What is it doing in the world? How long is it here for?
Marcus Aurelius
#34. Could it be, God forbid, that nationality is only a superficial, insignificant layer of the onion that is your being? What would you think of the man who would say of himself 'I am an overcoat' just because he happened to be wearing one?
Jean-Christophe Valtat
#35. You can never entirely stop being what you once were. That's why it's important to be the right person today, and not put it off till tomorrow.
Larry Wall
#36. People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
J. Michael Straczynski
#37. The definition of integrity is this:
Being what I say I am by acting in accordance with my words.
John G. Miller
#38. You know, many a man realizes late in life that if when he was a boy he had known what he knows now, instead of being what he is he might be what he won't; but how few boys stop to think that if they knew what they don't know instead of being what they will be, they wouldn't be?
Stephen Leacock
#39. I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
Raekwon
#40. All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.
Jock Sturges
#41. In many cases bands have a lot to overcome, business being what it is.
Chris Stein
#42. The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.
Ethel Waters
#43. You are the only one who knows what you are actively doing to avoid being what you want to be.
Sasha Tenodi
#44. I know I walk a fine line between being a respected actor and being what they call a sex symbol.
Eva Mendes
#46. I see Lord Buddha doing to our collective spiritual well-being what global trade did to our collective economic well-being and the digital internet did to our collective intellectual well-being.
Narendra Modi
#47. Forgiveness doesn't make one person better, or the other guy smaller. Forgiving is just letting go. It's turning back toward being what we really are.
Edward Fahey
#48. The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with.
Paul Muldoon
#50. I see people as being what their personality is at the moment of expression.
Ryan Trecartin
#51. There is more to fearlessness than merely having overcome fear ... This state of being is not dependent on any external circumstances. It is individual dignity ... that comes from being what we are, right now.
Chogyam Trungpa
#52. Let's say there was a burning building and you could rush in and you could save only one thing: either the last known copy of Shakespeare's plays or some anonymous human being. What would you do?
Woody Allen
#53. I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.
Ken Kesey
#54. Since everything is but an illusion,
Perfect in being what it is,
Having nothing to do with good or bad,
Acceptance or rejection,
One might as well burst out laughing!
Longchen Rabjam
#55. God listens and He responds. Sometimes His reply could be "I'm with you. Do not be afraid." Sadly, many times we withdrew long before receiving the blessing He has for us, what He wants to show us; or we get disappointed because we don't recognize His answer for not being what we expected.
Yilda B. Rivera
#56. To write well about the elegant world you have to know it and experience it to the depths of your being ... what matters is not whether you love it or hate it, but only to be quite clear about your position regarding it.
Italo Calvino
#57. Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.
Leo Szilard
#58. A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be. That is his punishment. Those who want a mask have to wear it.
Oscar Wilde
#59. People who personify the system are indeed well known for not being what they seem to be; they have achieved greatness by embracing a level of reality lower than that of the most insignificant individual life- and everyone knows it.
Guy Debord
#60. People hurt each other all the time just by being. What matters is that when you hurt someone, you do what you can to make it right.
Amy Lane
#61. You tend to meet on a more regular basis with people in your industry, and reality being what it is, you tend to meet with them at the particular level that you occupy; so that develops a fraternity relationship.
Lew Wasserman
#62. As I helped him up, I felt him shake all over, so I asked him to forgive me, without knowing what for, but that was my lot, asking forgiveness, I even asked forgiveness of myself for being what I was, what it was my nature to be.
Bohumil Hrabal
#63. That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.
Gene Wolfe
#64. When you grow tired of being what you're not, go and have fun and celebrate life ...
In time, you'll discover that it will give you more than pleasure, it will give you meaning.
Paulo Coelho
#66. The frightening and most difficult thing about being what somebody calls a creative person is that you have absolutely no idea where any of your thoughts come from, really. And especially, you don't have any idea about where they're going to come from tomorrow.
Hal Riney
#67. What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.
D.H. Lawrence
#68. Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.
Rene Magritte
#69. Whatever helps to shape the human being - to make the individual what he is, or hinder him from being what he is not - is part of his education.
John Stuart Mill
#70. PLAYER : It costs little to watch, and little more if you happen to get caught up in the action, if that's your taste and times being what they are.
Tom Stoppard
#71. Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.
Donald Knuth
#73. None of them even know who they are. They're just acting out their roles. Being what their parents made them. Always trying to be what's expected. It's exhausting.
Marie Sexton
#74. I've always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be.
Dita Von Teese
#75. Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor.
Anthony Hopkins
#76. New York being what it is, our museums are vertical, not horizontal. That means the stumbling blocks to architectural clarity are unavoidable - but certainly surmountable.
Jerry Saltz
#77. Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not.
Lord David Cecil
#78. I'm different, and I have to be a warrior to be that way. But I have had some success; I hope I have touched the lives of some wonderful people, all by being what I see as myself but some others people see as different.
Johnny Weir
#79. You can't go around being what everyone wants you to be, living your life through other people's rules, and expect to be happy and have inner peace.
Wayne Dyer
#80. Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.
Allen Tate
#81. Hope dreams into being what is possible but not yet formed.
Sharon Weil
#82. You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love & affection.
Gautama Buddha
#83. Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.
Bertrand Russell
#84. You become what you want to be, by consistently being what you want to become each day.
Richard G. Scott
#85. Sometimes I was resentful. Must she care about everyone in this world? Look at me! Praise me! I want to be the most important! Why do you care so much about so many things? But now, so many years later, I say: Thank you, Mother, for being what you were, for trying to develop me in every way. Kisv
Isabella Leitner
#86. Human nature being what it was, the only time you could really be sure you weren't being lied to was when you were talking to yourself.
Kenneth Eade
#87. Think of normal as being what God intends for your life," Mark said. "Un-normal is everything that's something other than His plans for you. Life gets easier that way, Gina. Go ahead and stress about what you should care about, but ignore the rest.
Dee Henderson
#88. My dream was I was going to be an actor. Racism occurred to me. It dawned on me that I would not be an actor. It occurred to me that I was not white. It occurred to me that being what they call colored, being a Negro, was some kind of a disadvantage.
Ruby Dee
#89. There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.
Ugo Betti
#91. I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
Vincent Van Gogh
#92. I would never give up on you, Alex. Never."
"Then why are you being such a
"
"What?" His voice dropped low. "I'm being what?"
Infuriating. Stubborn. Thick-skulled. Freaking sexy.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#93. Men go where they will, they do as they must; it is not a woman's part to bid them to stay, nor yet to reproach them for being what they are-or for not coming back.
Diana Gabaldon
#94. Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you'd like them to be, although often they turn out the same
Merle Shain
#95. Spiritual love, derived from Love-Intelligence, is nonconditional, nonpersonal benevolence. It is the love of being loving, with no strings attached, just for the sake of being what God wants us to be.
Thomas Hora
#96. Our belief that a person takes part in an unknown life which his or her love would allow us to enter is, of all that love demands in order to come into being, what it prizes the most, and what makes it care little for the rest.
Marcel Proust
#97. But how he acts, and what he says, and what he does, and who he is, they don't line up anymore, and the lie is in that not lining up, the lie is in not being what she needs but pretending that he is. No one says a word, and she sees it every minute they have together.
Brad Barkley
#98. If he had been a man with strength of purpose to face those troubles and fight them, he might have broken the net that held him, or broken his heart; but being what he was, he languidly slipped into this smooth descent, and never more took one step upward.
Charles Dickens
#99. If the will, which in the law of our nature, were withdrawn from our memory, fancy, understanding, and reason, no other hell could equal, for a spiritual being, what we should then feel from the anarchy of our powers. It would be conscious madness,
a horrid thought!
John Milton
#100. I spend more time being what I am: a writer, not the visiting celebrity.
Jerry Spinelli
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