Quotes About Being Here

#1. I'm sorry about ... .ever letting you go. I'm sorry for all the time we wasted. I'm sorry for being here with you right now when we can't do a damned thing about it.

T. Torrest

#2. It's funny. No matter how hard you try, you can't close your heart forever. And the minute you open it up, you never know what's going to come in. But when it does, you just have to go for it! Because if you don't, there's not point in being here.

Kirstie Alley

#3. I'm not afraid of nothing, I just like the challenge, and I love being here.

LeBron James

#4. But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.

William Hurt

#5. Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.

Alice Walker

#6. Thanks for being here for me," she whispered.
He started to answer flippantly, but stopped when he realized how much it meant to him as well, that he could be there for her. "Anytime, babe."
And for the first time in his life, he actually meant it.

Jill Shalvis

#7. It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.

George Harrison

#8. I would have liked to see where we would have the authority to arrest illegal aliens just by being here illegally and book them into our jails, but that's not going to happen.

Joe Arpaio

#9. ...the most beautiful thing about tango is that it doesn't belong to anyone. It doesn't, but we'd like it to. We'd like to own it, each of us individually. We are all fiercely territorial about it. By being here despite the pain of it, we're saying: I'm holding my ground...

Kapka Kassabova

#10. I want to try and stay focused on the next game. I'm pretty good at doing that, but to be there right now, it has been a blessing up to this point. Being here in Montreal and being healthy and playing with this group of guys.

Anthony Calvillo

#11. [Being in the States] is almost like being on a holiday. It's kind of annoying because everyone's like "Oh, you're so obsessed with America," but it's not really that. I just really enjoy being here - I'm not the first British artist to make music here and be inspired by the country.

Marina And The Diamonds

#12. Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

Neil Gaiman

#13. I do not know how to be of help."
I felt her in my arms. "You are, just by being here," I said. "You help because you understand. No other person has ever understood me like you do." I held her close. "You understand me, and I get you.

Tillie Cole

#14. I don't want to sit on the sidelines and not value the gift of being here. Instead of the idea of time ticking away, the grains of sand running out, I try to think of time as giving me another grain of sand, another gift. So time passing is an accumulation, rather than a diminishing.

Tori Amos

#15. Just your being here justifies that what I feel for you is strong enough to endure anything.

Faith Sullivan

#16. So take the time to think. Discover your real reason for being here and then have the courage to act on it.

Robin S. Sharma

#17. A thousand things might have stopped me from being here right now, but instead, a thousand things brought me here.

Laini Taylor

#18. What do you like most about being here?"
"The quiet. When I'm here, no one asks me questions or asks me to do stuff. I can sit here and think.

Nicholas Sparks

#19. It's strange being here with you. I hardly know you. But ... sometimes it feels like we're the same person born into two different worlds.

Marie Lu

#20. Creative entitlement simply means believing that you are allowed to be here, and that - merely by being here - you are allowed to have a voice and a vision of your own.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#21. One of the hardest ideas for humans to accept,' he says, 'is that we are not the culmination of anything. There is nothing inevitable about our being here. It is part of our vanity as humans that we tend to think of evolution as a process that, in effect, was programmed to produce us.

Bill Bryson

#22. I spend so much of my time working away, but I love being here. My family is in Somerset, and this is where my heart is.

Charles Hazlewood

#23. So don't be sad that you're able to keep on living without your mother being here, it just means she did her job.

T.A. Williams

#24. I will say, just being here, God is good, man ...

Derrick Rose

#25. So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life.

Henry Rollins

#26. If there was any other place I would live, other than Miami, it would be California. It's beautiful. The weather is just gorgeous, I love being here, too.

Jon Secada

#27. Just being at home, growing up naturally, and being here now with my video and my music, I think people realize that I was in the Spice Girls 8 years ago.

Emma Bunton

#28. You have to do what you have to do. I wanted to work. I wanted to prove that I was worthy of being here ... and I was gonna do whatever it took to prove that.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#29. Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understang why I hate myself so badly.

Orson Scott Card

#30. I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.

Rafael Nadal

#31. Something about being here in this neon-glitzy place, my shoes off and my boobs pushed up to my neck made me feel bold. Daring. Ready to grab the world by the balls and make it beg for mercy. Rawr.

Elle Casey

#32. You do find a lot of your time in the West kind of searching for your place in the world - your voice, your identity, like, who am I? Like, what is my reason for being here, you know? And in that same way who am I to be partnered with, you know?

Aasif Mandvi

#33. You take yourself to be limited, but you are not. Discover this. Stay silent and attentive. Be earnest about it. Just be aware of your being here and now. Reality will find you.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#34. Stress is caused by being "here" but wanting to be "there," or being in the present but wanting to be in the future.

Eckhart Tolle

#35. I feel the longer he stays at United the better it is for the club. He's done so much for United you can't imagine him not being here.
(on Sir Alex Ferguson)

Rio Ferdinand

#36. I realise it must be strange for you, being here in England. I realise that we must strike you as a nation of hicks, who only got hot and cold running water the day before you flew in, but even so, I have to tell you that I've heard a lot of this before.

Hugh Laurie

#37. In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else.

Ernie Pyle

#38. Part of me aches to touch her now that she's so close. But the other part, the logical part, wants to coast myself in Teflon, because I know that her being here, no matter what her reasons, is going to seriously fuck with my world.

Steph Campbell

#39. We buy books, we go to gyms, we expend a lot of brain power on trying to hold back time, when we should be celebrating the miracle of being here in this world.

Paulo Coelho

#40. When you don't have children you have to define and make your own purpose, and make your own reason for being here.

Tracey Emin

#41. But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#42. It's a very open-armed experience in Australia - you feel immediately welcomed - I felt being here for three months - honoured, delighted, proud.

Tom Parker Bowles

#43. I think one of the strengths of Wisconsin's economy is it's diversity - and in making sure that we're doing everything we can to have a state government that's responsive to that and being here and encouraging people to expand their businesses here.

Tom Barrett

#44. Being here? With you? I've met my subconscious, and he's not that sick.

Jim Butcher

#45. Being here feels like I'm out of prison. This is the right place, the right time, the right team.

Shaquille O'Neal

#46. Being here with you, smiling and laughing, it's the first time I've done that since you left that it wasn't fake. I need you back in my life.

Alison G. Bailey

#47. The very fact of a Christian being here, and not in Heaven, is a proof that some work awaits him.

William Arnot

#48. I want to be honest with you: The players I played with and the coaches I had ... they were directly responsible for my being here. I want you all to remember that. I always will.

Johnny Unitas

#49. She asked, "Is there anything I can do to help?"
He buried his nose in her hair, took a deep breath and sighed. "You help just be being here."
"Well, that bit is easy," she told him with a smile. "Because I wouldn't be anywhere else.

Thea Harrison

#50. Why did you think my reason for being here had something to do with Frannie?" Luke asked. "Because she's what we all have in common." "No, Feagan is what we all have in common." "But Frannie is the one we all circle around to protect.

Lorraine Heath

#51. I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability.

Harry Caray

#52. We often block our own blessings because we don't feel inherently good enough or smart enough or pretty enough or worthy enough ... You're worthy because you are born and because you are here. Your being here, your being alive makes worthiness your birthright. You alone are enough.

Oprah Winfrey

#53. And being here like this, so suddenly close to him is enough to make her lightheaded. It's a feeling like falling.

Jennifer E. Smith

#54. To be honest, I don't think you deserved her, but I don't think any of us deserved her really. She was always going to be the smartest, kindest, funniest, loyalest person we would ever meet, and the fact of her not being here well it just isn't right

David Nicholls

#55. Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.

Warren Beatty

#56. The whole idea of being here is to ask everything...

Deyth Banger

#57. Your purpose is not your purpose for being here. Your experience of the feeling of purpose is your purpose for being here!

Noah James Hittner

#58. I'm a good example of someone who can come to Hollywood and keep their feet on the ground with all the rock stars, all the drama that goes with being here. It's still important to pump your own gas and to be able to vacuum.

Pamela Anderson

#59. I'm an American chef. I'm American. I live here. I love being here. But, of course, it is different. A black man's journey is different.

Marcus Samuelsson

#60. Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here.

Chuck Palahniuk

#61. Just being here is more than I deserve. There is no way you would fail to meet my expectations, they have been shattered in the face of the beautiful reality that is you.

Alanea Alder

#62. The translucent life is very much about overflowing with a gift to the world, rather than being here to consume or to get something for yourself.

Arjuna Ardagh

#63. You being here today and seeing me like this didn't happen."
"It never does ...

Whitney Gracia Williams

#64. and you and I left
with the same old question
the sheer unspeakable strangeness
of being here at all

Robin Williamson

#65. What person here illegally (and in his right mind), will go to the government, announce being here illegally (e.g. plead guilty), provide all sorts of information as to where that person lives etc. to get a work permit only to be a target for deportation in two years?

Greta Van Susteren

#66. I didn't believe it was happening. But it was.
Just being here, being away, it was all so much easier in a way I didn't anticipate. In a way I didn't
think my life could be anymore. It was a huge relief.

Gayle Forman

#67. The pictures we saw before we got down here didn't even touch the reality of what it is like being here. We can be right on the beach with all the devastation and still not be able to imagine what it was like when the wall of water actually came up.

Connie Sellecca

#68. Creative entitlement doesn't mean behaving like a princess, or acting as though the world owes you anything whatsoever. No, creative entitlement simply means believing that you are allowed to be here, and that - merely by being here - you are allowed to have a voice and a vision of your own. The

Elizabeth Gilbert

#69. That was an amazing night in the city. But, there's something rare and intimate about being here - just you, me, the ocean, and the moon.

Nicole Gulla

#70. And so it happened again, the daily miracle whereby interiority opens out and brings to bloom the million-petalled flower of being here, in the world, with other people. Neither as hard as she had thought it might be nor as easy as it appeared.

Zadie Smith

#71. Where else would I be? I want to be wherever you are, Ana. Being here makes me think of how far we've come. And the night that was. I watched you fro hours. You were just ... yar, he breathes. I smile against his chest.

E.L. James

#72. I don't have a burning desire to go out and document anything. It just happens when it happens. It's not a conscious effort, nor is it a struggle. Wouldn't do it if it was. The idea of the suffering artist has never appealed to me. Being here is suffering enough.

William Eggleston

#73. CHAPTER VII WHICH THE GENTEEL READER IS RECOMMENDED TO SKIP, LOW PERSONS BEING HERE INTRODUCED

Charlotte Bronte

#74. Looking back," Ruby said, "I wonder why I was so afraid to grow old. Every day brought me one day closer to being here with You.

Randy Alcorn

#75. The Sanskrit word namaste means 'The spirit in me honors the spirit in you.' Whenever you first make eye contact with another person, say 'Namaste' silently to yourself. This is a way of acknowledging that the being there is the same as the being here.

Deepak Chopra

#76. I believe that the only possible reason for our being here is to serve in some form or another but that the form is not always readily found or recognized. And I've noticed that those who refuse to serve often wind up as slaves.

Hildegard Knef

#77. But she is angry. At Etienne for doing so little, at Madame Manec for doing so much, at her father for not being here to help her understand his absence. At her eyes for failing her. At everything and everyone. Who knew love could kill you?

Anthony Doerr

#78. She called me her devil and I called her my everything. We clung to each other, sweaty, spent, and forever entwined. My starved heart and soul were gorged to the point of overflowing and every battle I'd ever fought felt like it had been nothing if this was my victory, being here with her.

Jay Crownover

#79. Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience.

William Adams

#80. And as I stand up and take that breath I can feel that being here is no static thing. We are not just existing at a time when an old, unworkable world is dying, but we are living as a new one struggles for birth.

Lois Hart

#81. The fulfilling of who you are and your purpose for being here is not found outside, it's trusting God to move you, to inspire you ...

Ernie Hudson

#82. It's so surreal being here.

Scotty McCreery

#83. Truly being here is glorious.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#84. Being here, it is just impossible to imagine what that was like, when the tsunami hit.

Connie Sellecca

#85. It's a big thing back in my hometown about me being here. There are a lot of people behind me.

Brandon Jacobs

#86. You don't blame us for being here, do you? After all, we have no place to go. No home ... Incidentally, what an excellent day for an exorcism ...

William Peter Blatty

#87. Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are complicated.

Nicole Beharie

#88. I love baseball, but being here (in the United States), I've been able to play golf every day. I can't play in Japan because every course has caddies, and the caddies all want autographs and don't want to let me golf.

Ichiro Suzuki

#89. Work aside, I think would have ended up in the U.S. because I like being here a lot. I really do.

Raza Jaffrey

#90. All the fans being here got my adrenaline going. I definitely got a burst of energy from them.

Sean Elliott

#91. Anger is needed to leave, to walk. That doesn't come from outside. In the hollow of the belly the pain of being here, the impossibility of remaining where you are, of being buried alive, of simply staying.

Frederic Gros

#92. I think the whole mission of being here on Earth is to accept what you have, and my journey was to accept my own life and not pretend anything else. I think that's what we all struggle with.

Michael Nyqvist

#93. And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.

Terence McKenna

#94. Real success means creating a life of meaning through service that fulfills your reason for being here.

Oprah Winfrey

#95. Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

George H. W. Bush

#96. I do not know whether I will be in this place for a short or a long time. That is for others to decide. But what I do know is that I have no intention of being here for the sake of just being here. Together with my colleagues it is my intention to make a difference .

Kevin Rudd

#97. Hello, fear. Thank you for being here. You're my indication that I'm doing what I need to do.

Cheryl Strayed

#98. 'What was being on the moon literally like?' [ ... ] 'Being on the moon?' His tired gaze inspected the narrow street of cheap jewellery stores, with its office messengers and lottery touts, the off-duty taxi-drivers leaning against their cars. 'It was just like being here.'

J.G. Ballard

#99. I don't think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There's roasted meat and mashed potatoes. But being here is also about heritage. Cleveland is really a giant melting pot - not only is my family a melting pot, but so is the city.

Michael Symon

#100. I love New York. It is an amazing city, and the U.S. Open is a lot about the show. There are tens of thousands of spectators; these are some of the best courts in the world, and there is nothing like being here and making memories.

Stanislas Wawrinka