Quotes About Being There

#1. But anything
worth doing is worth doing badly.
Like being there by that summer ocean
on the other side of the island while
love was fading out of her, the stars
burning so extravagantly those nights that
anyone could tell you they would never last.

Jack Gilbert

#2. Fortunately for me, I'm in this unique business of not singing, not dancing, not performing - just kind of being there.

Ryan Seacrest

#3. I thought love was about caring about someone day in and day out, about being there when it's fucking amazing, and still wanting to be there when it feels like crap. i thought it was about for ever' -will, calling romeo

Alexandra Potter

#4. If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.

Baron D'Holbach

#5. And just being there is ninety-nine percent of what matters when your world falls apart

Holly Goldberg Sloan

#6. If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we can blame the state governments; but in the end, it's the mayors and the local city governments that have to be prepared for emergencies and be prepared to act.

Michael Bloomberg

#7. Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than this practice; there is no other way of life than this way of life.

Shunryu Suzuki

#8. Despite the fact that she was essentially comatose, she somehow made his whole house feel different just by being there. Before it had been just a house - a very impressive house no doubt, but a house nonetheless. But for some reason, with Taylor there it felt more like a home.

Julie James

#9. I'm much more concerned with being a good dad than a good actor, being there for my children, educating them and hopefully helping them avoid some of the mistakes that I've made.

Mark Wahlberg

#10. From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.

Baal Shem Tov

#11. God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.

Billy Graham

#12. My job as a double was always to put [actors] at ease. My job was to make my character, or the actress that I was doubling, look as badass as possible by being there.

Zoe Bell

#13. The more that I work with people that I don't know, the more I invite somebody in who's potentially going to really hate being there.

Joe Swanberg

#14. We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence

Voltaire

#15. For me, it's more about being there, bearing witness to history, bearing witness to what's happening, what our country, the position our country is taking overseas. I want policy-makers to see the fruits of their decisions, basically, and to try and influence foreign policy.

Lynsey Addario

#16. Just being there at the Olympics, you kind of just take in every single moment.

McKayla Maroney

#17. At the core of every human being, there is a need for love.

Syesha Mercado

#18. I am absolutely convinced that the E.U. will still be around. I am convinced the U.K. will be sitting at that table and not negotiating an exit, but being there to stay.

Mark Rutte

#19. Sure I should have been at the Fifa workshop for example, but I had personal reasons for not being there and looking back saying that it was a mistake for me not being there I would take the same decision because the personal situation has higher priority than a workshop.

Jurgen Klinsmann

#20. With great pleasure she did what was forbidden, because the great advantage of being there was not having to respect the rules and not even having to put up with any major consequences if you broke them.

Paulo Coelho

#21. You tried to show me that love isn't always dramatic. Sometimes it's messy. But most of the time, it's as simple as blood, or just being there for each other. But,

Kade Boehme

#22. It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.

Madeleine Stowe

#23. It's great to be anywhere as a writer. It saves you from implication in the ugliness of the place and justifies your being there. You can spend all day jerking off as long as you describe it well.

Richard Hell

#24. Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing a presence, a permanence.

Buzz Aldrin

#25. Everything in this country [the US] has got to be good looks and unlined faces and thin bodies and people running around in skirts slit up to their ass. It has nothing to do with thinking or with being a human being. There is life in mature people; it's not all over at 24½.

Lauren Bacall

#26. 'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.

Rachel Platten

#27. We have no chance to comprehend what goes on there - it's so dramatic, and people are so poor. We all felt bad about being there. Filming in India felt like we were going to borrow something knowing that we were never going to give it back.

Mads Mikkelsen

#28. This is the way you look at the poorest details of the world resurfaced, after you've been driving for a long time
you feel their singleness and precise location and the forlorn coincidence of you being there to see them.

Alice Munro

#29. Working through experience is best for me, just being there and trying to get into the mode.

Ludacris

#30. The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.

Galen Rowell

#31. I'm not your father." He cupped a hand under her chin. He saw the tears brimming, and her
valiant attempt to hold them off. "And neither are you. My being there for you, taking some of the
weight doesn't make you weak. It doesn't make you less, Sophie.

Nora Roberts

#32. 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

#33. I've got to be able to get my time off whether it's just enjoying my house or the peace and quiet of my family and being there and cooking for them. I love doing that. I also love doing leisure things. I ride horses. I love to shop. I love to drive!

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

#34. Inside of every being there is a constant war being raged. The part that tell us to do what is right and what is decent and the part of us that is self-serving. The part that wants what it wants regardless of who is hurt getting it.

Kinley MacGregor

#35. Thank you for being there that night, Beaston. Thank you for protecting me and for not letting me be alone.

T.S. Joyce

#36. Then when [ISIS] moved into Iraq, the Sunni Muslims didn't object to their being there and about a third of the territory in Iraq was abandoned.

Jimmy Carter

#37. The only purpose of our lives consists in waking each other up and being there for each other.

Johanna Paungger

#38. What scares me is not living up to be a good enough father to my son and letting down my family - not being there enough and not being able to give enough of yourself.

Morten Tyldum

#39. Love means sometimes sacrificing the things you want in order to make somebody else happy. It means being there for them, even when maybe you don't feel like it, because they need you.

Leila Sales

#40. I have no sense of well-being. There's no chance the well will run dry.

Larry David

#41. How could I suddenly go from a person who had struggled to dissect an already dead mouse, to someone who was willing to murder a human being? There was no logic to it!

Adele Rose

#42. I'm sure in the past I've said marriage is stupid. Marriage makes someone sign a contract promising something they really can't deliver. I'm sure I will again say marriage is dumb. But I can also imagine why it could be lovely. There's something beautiful about truly being there for another person.

Amy Schumer

#43. To say that New York came up to its advance billing would be the baldest of understatements. Being there was like being in heaven without going to all the bother and expense of dying.

P.G. Wodehouse

#44. Crucially, I'd like to thank Labour party members up and down the country for sticking with us. For their active citizenship, their willingness to engage in our democracy, and for being there at the cutting edge of making our democracy work.

David Blunkett

#45. If you film a little boy going to school, the big event in that boy's day and all the classmates' and teachers' day is you being there filming, not the school.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#46. I have nothing more of News to tell you but that Mr Rothery was Marryd Last May to that Lady at Chelsea with 3 thousand pound fortune but hope that will be no Hindrance to Brothers being there.

Anne M. Powers

#47. I gave three years of my life to take care of my dying mother who had Alzheimer's disease. Being there for her every need for three years might have looked codependent but it wasn't because it was what I wanted to do.

Melody Beattie

#48. Long distance is the next best thing to being there. But a dove in love would rather reach out and touch someone. Spring is in the air and all lines are busy with local calls as the wooing and cooing commences.

Charley Harper

#49. I have such a hopeless dream of walking or being there at night, nothing happens, I just pass, everything is unbearably over with.

Jack Kerouac

#50. A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

Lucian Freud

#51. When you're young, all evolution lies before you, every road is open to you, and at the same time you can enjoy the fact of being there on the rock, flat mollusk-pulp, damp and happy.

Italo Calvino

#52. I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.

Barrett Foa

#53. I've gone through terrible periods of depression. But, at the core of my being, there's a strange, out-of-place optimist. Despite what I'm feeling, I'm always able to get up and do my job. Which means the world to me.

Jenny Lewis

#54. If you manage a situation, not just things happening there, people should feel elevated just being in that space. Above all, you must feel wonderful being there.

Jaggi Vasudev

#55. I wanted to make decisions on who I loved by who completed me, made me feel good about myself. Who I could love freely and help make a better person by just being there.

Kim Harrison

#56. [ ... ] even in the cruelest human being there can exist a flower of good. Maybe just the tiniest blossom, in need of water and sunlight, but a flower just the same.

Meg Cabot

#57. To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

Barbara Bush

#58. Being strong is having the wisdom when it is necessary. Being strong is to being gentle when it is most needed. Being strong is using flexibility when it is required. Being strong is about being there when it is a must for you to be there. Being strong is not really about being strong ... ... ...

Sameh Elsayed

#59. If you believe that Reid then you're more delusional than I thought. I guarantee you, just being there is hurting her enough to last a lifetime.

Harper Sloan

#60. When you thank something negative for happening, or thank a negative thought for being there, you've just negated the negative and turned it into positive energy!

Donna Labermeier

#61. Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there.

William Stafford

#62. Within us lies the peace, the beauty, the glory of our being. There is an ocean of all that. We cannot seek it outside, we have to go within.

Nirmala Srivastava

#63. Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of love.

Louise L. Hay

#64. Your best changes from moment to moment, sick or well, tired or rested. Remember that you are an imperfect human being. There is no value to judging yourself for

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#65. His being there was stirring up a lot of memories she'd have been happier to leave as sentimental sediment. Not that they weren't good memories. That was the trouble.

Diana Killian

#66. Never stop supporting music because it will never stop being there for you when you need it.

Hayley Williams

#67. Inside every human being there are treasures to unlock.

Mike Huckabee

#68. Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person.

Pema Chodron

#69. Being there every week for my teammates is really important to me. It's about accountability. I hear stuff about the 'toughest quarterback in the league' and all that; what's that mean?

Peyton Manning

#70. I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.

Danny Boyle

#71. The effect of this cannot be understood without being there. The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.

Jeff VanderMeer

#72. If we got caught being in grandma's smaller room without her or without another adult being there, we were surely in for a good old-fashioned ass whipping, Kunta Kinte style. Grandma Bertha didn't play that shit.

Amina

#73. I still can't think about her being there. It doesn't make sense. Why would you stick someone you love down in a lonely old hole in the dirt? Where it's cold, and dirty, and full of bugs? That can't be how it ends, after everything, after everything she was.

Kami Garcia

#74. Dear Lord, you know our need and how much we depend upon your help. We're not going to give you orders about what to do, God. We are just going to thank you for being there when we need you. In the name of Jesus, your Son. Amen.

Janette Oke

#75. We knew you were hurting," Gelert said. "But sometimes - that idiom about being there for somebody, actually just means to be there. Doing anything, saying anything, sometimes you know it'll hurt them worse than just being quiet, and being close.

Diane Duane

#76. There is something very unsettling about being with someone when they die. People say it's peaceful. It's not peaceful. It's the most personal thing you can do, is die, and you feel almost like you're invading someone's most personal moment by being there.

George Clooney

#77. You can hit a home run. If you are honest, you'll know when it's perfect because at that critical moment of connection, there was no sense of being there. That is perfect play. There is no self involved.

Frederick Lenz

#78. The power of good film is being there in the moment.

Alex Kotlowitz

#79. Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#80. There are things I want, too. Things I want to change. I'm tired of only being there for a good time, Brenna. I'm tired of being a corrupter of the people I love. I no one wants to be the perpetual fuck up.

Liz Reinhardt

#81. 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.

Dixie Carter

#82. The battalion, the whole battalion was affected by the two killed just within a week of being there, and I think that that pulled everybody up to make them realise that this was a very serious business.

Peter Scott

#83. As never before, he understood the vitality of tradition, the dignity of the worship of what had existed before one's own self had come into being. There was no shame in awe; there was exaltation. ("Cafe Endless: Spring Rain")

Nancy Holder

#84. It feels like forever since I've been "here" without being "there" and "there too" and "what about there.

Huntley Fitzpatrick

#85. Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?

Evangelista Torricelli

#86. What is important is the reliability of my posts being there to greet my fans with a smile or a giggle every morning. That's how we keep on growing.

George Takei

#87. You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn't flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.

Richard Bach

#88. I'm pointing out you've been missed. Being present is one hundred percent more meaningful than being there in spirit.

Penny Reid

#89. I believe my most important job is being there when you need help.

Doug La Follette

#90. We cannot overlook the importance of wild country as source of inspiration, to which we give expression in writing, in poetry, drawing and painting, in mountaineering, or in just being there.

Olaus Murie

#91. Even the good can become careless without the Lord's being there to chasten.

Neal A. Maxwell

#92. Being there for each other in the proper way is a fine art.

Peter Seeberg

#93. When Perry and I walked into the hospital waiting room and I saw her sitting there, I began to cry, because that's what friendship looks like: knowing your friend better than she knows herself and being there to hold her hand while her heart breaks.

Melanie Shankle

#94. t was beautiful, being there with Elliott. It was like there was nothing except him and me. I remember his palms, his chest, his chin, but it was like we were more than just our bodies. As if our essence was there in the darkness.

Jaclyn Moriarty

#95. In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.

Ernst Haas

#96. On the other hand, I have devoted so much energy to reach the top that I accept the stress of being there.

Placido Domingo

#97. Either you are a good Virgo or a crazy Virgo! The good Virgo side of me is educating and raising the children - being there for them.

Carine Roitfeld

#98. In a way, "failure" is just another word for "the journey," for not being there yet but on the way. It's the road we walk on to get wherever it is we're trying to go.

Sara Zarr

#99. I think that a good movie creates its own world, and that world needn't refer to anything that's real. If it's consistent, if it's entertaining, if it's interesting, it justifies its being there.

Christopher Walken

#100. There is no perfect Human being, there is no perfect Life

Anupama Garg