Top 100 Is Being Quotes
#1. I've had a fantastic life so far; I'm lucky. I'd like the great role that changes everything, but at the moment, what's important is being happy in myself.
Max Beesley
#2. Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad
Sivananda
#3. Fitness is defined differently by everyone, but for me, the most important thing is being healthy. As tennis players, what we do is not the healthiest thing. We almost abuse our bodies.
Sania Mirza
#4. Certainly it is not to invent explanations which dismiss the chief political and historical fact of the matter: that the forgery is being believed. This fact is more important than the (historically speaking, secondary) circumstance that it is forgery.
Hannah Arendt
#5. It is difficult to keep quiet when everything is being done wrong, but the less you lose your temper the greater your advantage. Also then you will not go mad yourself.
T.E. Lawrence
#6. When you start with legal holiness, you have eyes only for the cross, and you never see that in Jesus Christ, nothing less than the eternal trinitarian life of Father, Son and Spirit is being lived out inside human existence. You never really get the staggering meaning of the incarnation.
C. Baxter Kruger
#7. Real reading is reincarnation. There is no other way to put it. It is being born again into a higher form of consciousness than we ourselves possess.
Mark Edmundson
#8. Sleeping' is being 'awake' in a world you want to be in.
Chandan Sharma
#9. Courage is being afraid and going on the journey anyhow.
John Wayne
#10. I'm the problem of anxiety we must, therefore, always ask the question of what vital value is being threatened
Rollo May
#11. A songwriter's supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time
Paul Simon
#12. Justice consists in seeing that no harm is done to men. Whenever a man cries inwardly: 'Why am I being hurt?' harm is being done to him. He is often mistaken when he tries to define the harm, and why and by whom it is being inflicted on him. But the cry itself is infallible.
Simone Weil
#13. Nothing is perfect. Therefore, being perfect is being nothing ... and that's a great way to lose weight.
Craig Benzine
#14. What is being born is a new consciousness and, as its inevitable reflection, a new world. This is also foretold in the New Testament Book of Revelation: "Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away.
Eckhart Tolle
#15. I have always been a Laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres ... I laugh, that's all. I love to laugh. Laugher to me is being alive. I have had rotten times, and I have laughed through them. Even in the midst of the very worst times I have laughed.
William, Saroyan
#16. What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being.
Phylicia Rashad
#17. The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.
Seth Godin
#18. Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.
Shane Claiborne
#19. Choose your battles well. There is no point in launching a fight over some minor matter. Pay your parking tickets, but fight like hell if your land is under threat, if your local farmers' market is being moved or closed, or the open wild land next door is proposed for two hundred condominiums.
Michael Ableman
#20. Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
Floyd Dell
#21. As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
Al Yankovic
#22. If comparison is the thief of joy, then our culture is being robbed blind.
Jon Foreman
#23. There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the story is being told.
David Byrne
#24. If the unlettered farmers of Munchkinland and the factory workers of Gillikin believe that their fate is being determined by how the Time Dragon dreams them up, they don't need to bother to take responsibility for their actions or for changing their class and station in life.
Gregory Maguire
#25. Dancing is being trusted with other people's guts; choreographing is trusting other people with yours. When I choreograph I'm giving a dancer something to do and trusting the dancer to do it and build on it.
Judith Jamison
#26. Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information.
Darrell Issa
#27. Every important choice we make is being guided by one of two places: either it is an act of faith or it is an act of fear. Faith opens the door to a new future.
Debbie Ford
#28. The nights you fight best
are
when all the weapons are pointed
at you,
when all the voices
hurl their insults
while the dream is being
strangled.
the nights you fight best
are
when the game is
fixed,
when the crowd screams
for your
blood.
Charles Bukowski
#29. Every day I look for ways to be inspired, to learn and to grow. And trying to be the best for my kids, my husband and my family. One thing I really wanna do is being there for my kids, be part of my siblings and my parents.
Mia Hamm
#30. The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.
James Weldon Johnson
#31. What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#32. The most influential person in the room isn't the one who is being a bully, talking loudly, and imposing him- or herself on others. Surrendered people understand that true power comes from being respectful and listening.
Judith Orloff
#33. A great building must begin with the immeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end must be unmeasured.
Louis I. Kahn
#34. It never hurts to be involved in any political or activist organization. I can never see how participation would be a bad thing. The key is being true to what you participate with and who.
John Cusack
#35. I think what scares people about not being normal is being ostracized for not being like other people. And that's hurtful when that happens.
Erin Davie
#37. We already have immigration law, and it is being violated. Obama's executive amnesty is not the settled law. [Barak ] Obama's executive amnesty is outside the law, and that's why it's been stayed.
Rush Limbaugh
#38. Happiness is being at peace with yourself while the self is united with a larger order of things.
Henryk Skolimowski
#39. Inspiration quite frequently arrives as a surprise. The key is being open to it.
Tori Amos
#40. I cannot grasp the difference between killing people with drones or rifles and knives. The objective in war is to kill the enemy before he kills you. I can't fathom the almost religious zeal with which the use of drones is being opposed.
Charles McCarry
#42. Of all the lessons history teaches, this one is the plainest: the person who tries to achieve ends through force is always unscrupulous and is always cruel. We should remember this in an age where morality seems to be disappearing and is being replaced by politics.
Eustace Percy, 1st Baron Percy Of Newcastle
#43. Everything that I'm really about is being an individualist. I believe in individuality.
Mike Vallely
#44. All over the planet, nature is being transformed into 'un-nature' at breakneck speed ... My life is part of natural history. I long to know where that history came from and where it is going.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#45. The nice thing about being an adolescent is being able to make mature decisions when you need them and being able to just flow alone with life when you don't.
Michael A. Stackpole
#46. Foul-ups in testing are not uncommon, especially when the test setup is being tried for the first time.
Henry Spencer
#47. One of the main points of the philosophy behind parkour is being able to help people ... To teach them they way themselves, to gain confidence in themselves, building up from simple moves to more complex things, to teach them that they are worthwhile people.
Chris Hayes
#48. I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.
Eddie Vedder
#49. The whole idea of love is scary - so is being with someone for the rest of your life and being happy with them for the rest of your life. There's lots of research to suggest that, actually, love's not really that simple.
Aziz Ansari
#50. Everyone is a salesman, and the product is each person. Personal branding is being conscious to the continual nature of selling yourself.
Jarod Kintz
#51. Every three minutes a woman is being raped. Every eighteen seconds a woman is being beaten. There is nothing abstract about it. It is happening right now as I am speaking.
Andrea Dworkin
#52. Once I'm on set, the only thing I'm really interested in is being in the room. Being present. And trusting that what I've done is sufficient, and I'm also trusting that I've also left room for magic.
Lorraine Toussaint
#53. I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for thousands of years so I'm not really selling the art to this particular collector but it is being passed on.
Richard MacDonald
#54. The Labour Party is being led by a woman but she has not been elected to anything. She is the lady who makes the breakfast in the Kinnock household.
Edwina Currie
#55. It's all very Eckhart Tolle when you think about it - the key to being charismatic is being PRESENT.
Gala Darling
#56. in the best organizations, the short term is not the only thing that matters. What matters more is being best. And that's a long-term concept.
Tom DeMarco
#57. You cannot represent cool. You've got to be cool. You've got to be authentic. I think, after all these years, that is how I define cool. It is being authentic. That is powerful.
Henry Winkler
#58. Today in Germany, everyone is being watched
even the watchers.
Abraham Polonsky
#59. I literally get up and get to do the one thing I dreamed about doing every day. And that is being a part of a television show and a radio show that is based in Hollywood.
Ryan Seacrest
#60. Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought.
Charles Spurgeon
#61. And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?
Blaise Pascal
#62. The best remedy for what ails me is being with you here under the sun.
Christopher Paolini
#63. Is being single hard? It depends where your mind is. If you are focused, being single is an enjoyable experience, but if you hate being alone, you'll hate being single. I think it depends on the individual are where they are in life.
Lauren London
#64. The greatest change in corporate culture - and the way business is being conducted - may be the accelerated growth of relationships based ... on partnership.
Peter Drucker
#65. I denounce the do-gooders, the feel-gooders, the "activist clubs," and anyone else who makes people feel like the problem is being taken care of. Trust me. The problem is not being taken care of.
Blake Nelson
#66. Courage, real bravery, is being afraid and doing what you need to do anyway.
Jack Campbell
#67. Communication is defined not by what is being said but by what is being heard. For this reason, it is vital that you gain a good appreciation of how other people will listen - interpret, process, and assign meaning - to what you have to say before you can influence them effectively.
Margie Warrell
#68. My obligation, if I become president, is to give another direction to Europe than the one that is being forced upon us today.
Francois Hollande
#69. I am honored and quite proud that a class is being taught on my sensationalist lyrics, unique style and fashion and leadership role within the hip-hop community.
Lil' Kim
#70. In Paris explanations come in a predictable sequence, no matter what is being explained. First comes the explanation in terms of the unique, romantic individual, then the explanation in terms of ideological absolutes, and then the explanation in terms of the futility of all explanation.
Adam Gopnik
#72. Pamela shook her head as she swiveled the computer screen so Noah could see the grainy black-and-white video of a group of men in SWAT gear approaching a box. Soon there was a bomb-bot poking the thing, and finally a new man in protective gear picked it up. "Harley is being stalked by someone her
Lucy McConnell
#73. I think you can tell when someone is being dishonest as an actor.
Kat Dennings
#74. The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.
Goldie Hawn
#75. My secret is being not terrible at a lot of things.
Moby
#76. Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this.
Ned Rorem
#77. Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
Ann Landers
#78. What I like doing is being a different person. Every character is kind of different. So being able to be that person and then when you leave you're yourself again. So it's kind of weird to be like two different people, and I think that's kind of fun.
Abigail Breslin
#79. There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.
Albert Guinon
#80. The word bipartisan usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out.
George Carlin
#81. I get interested in the various ways that music is being done in the culture, and some of it I like thoroughly enough to want to learn about it. The way I have been successful at doing that is to become part of it.
Chick Corea
#82. For example, the first time McDonald's put a deaf person in a commercial they saw a jump in sales. I think that happens with other kinds of disabilities and products and that is something that is being realized more and more.
Richard Masur
#83. What's real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.
Joyce Meyer
#84. Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.
Sharon Olds
#85. Know that life, which does everything perfectly, is now moving you in a new direction. The chess piece of your existence is being moved to a new square on the board of life.
Frederick Lenz
#86. True luxury is being able to own your time - to be able to take a walk, sit on your porch, read the paper, not take the call, not be compelled by obligation.
Ashton Kutcher
#87. Sleep is over rated, then again so is being awake.
Dov Davidoff
#89. Crying's always been a way for me to get things out which are buried deep, deep down. When I sing, I often cry. Crying is feeling, and feeling is being human.
Ray Charles
#90. Morning night and noon the traffic moves through and the murder and treachery of friends and lovers and all the people move through you. pain is the joy of knowing the unkindest truth that arrives without warning. life is being alone death is being alone. even the fools weep morning night and noon.
Charles Bukowski
#91. Pictures bring you inside, whether you see yourself driving a new car or as a hapless prisoner who is being abused.
Jerry Della Femina
#92. Peace of mind is a person you can trust. Happiness is being trustworthy.
Richie Norton
#93. People on the spiritual path are people of unquenchable discontent. It is being propagated that spirituality means contentment. Contentment means you have contented yourself with what you have. A spiritual person means he is unwilling to settle for anything less than the Ultimate.
Jaggi Vasudev
#95. Happiness is being served with a paternity suit on your 75th birthday.
Johnny Carson
#96. Obviously, it's great to know that your music is being listened to.
Victoria Legrand
#97. The thing I miss about performing is being with people.
Tim Federle
#98. People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#99. Singles have a purpose that is higher than any earthly relationship. Marriage is honorable, but so is being single.
Monica Johnson
#100. Football is easy, it's not success. To me success is being a world changer. Football is my platform but not my purpose.
Brandon Marshall
