That Being Quotes

#1. If we are prepared to take the life of another being merely in order to satisfy our taste for a particular type of food, then that being is no more than a means to our end.

Peter Singer

#2. Today I still feel like the most illiterate person ever to have roamed the campuses of Wellesley and Harvard, where I later transferred. I remain intimidated by all the books I haven't read, but over the years I've come to realize that being a student is a lifelong adventure.

Elisabeth Shue

#3. Something people don't recognize is that being on the space station is probably a lot like being in some kind of confinement - like isolation.

Scott Kelly

#4. I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.

Mick Jagger

#5. I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligation but being able to love. To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free.

Jeanette Winterson

#6. I want to be happy. I realized that being happy isn't necessarily about getting there, it's how you get there. It almost sounds like a cliche, but every entrepreneur I've talked to - every good entrepreneur - really enjoys the 'how you get here.'

Ben Huh

#7. I believe that being conservative means you try to get in to the middle of the fight and try to solve the problem.

James Lankford

#8. I spent the first twenty-five years of my life apologizing for people like Harald because we're family. Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love and I had a few reasons to defend Harald.

Stieg Larsson

#9. I have to say that being a vegan in 1986 or whenever was a lot different than being a vegan in 2012. You'd go to health foods stores and basically your choice was between Mung beans and nutritional yeast, and that's about it.

Moby

#10. I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien that's the way it should be.

Tom Baker

#11. It is a pity that being who you truly are requires so much courage. But it does. It takes enormous courage at times. Being who you are, whoever that is, sometimes cannot even be articulated at first, not even to yourself

Anonymous

#12. I never think that being a woman is so hard. Maybe don't think about your gender and be confident as you go forward rather than try to single yourself out as some underserved part of filmmaking.

Jerusha Hess

#13. Be warned that being an expert is more than understanding how a system is supposed to work. Expertise is gained by investigating why a system doesn't work.

Brian Redman

#14. I think it's disingenuous to believe that being born into a privileged world means you feel like you are having an easy time.

Laura Wade

#15. I have so many people who still talk to me about The Long Kiss Goodnight, about that being one of their favorite movies, and it really was a fun movie.

David Morse

#16. One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent.

Meir Kahane

#17. I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.

Juliette Binoche

#18. There's a lot to be said for being alone. But you and I know, don't we, Flavia, that being alone and being lonely are not at all the same thing?

Alan Bradley

#19. I've learned that being a superhero isn't all glitz and glamour. We think if we have a special power, our problem will go away. It's just a new set of problems. Being a superhero alienates you and separates you from humanity. As Spiderman famously said, 'With great power comes great responsibility.'

Josh Keaton

#20. There are worse things that being invisible, the monster had said, and it was right.

Patrick Ness

#21. I don't think that being in a full-time relationship is necessarily for everybody all of the time. It's not necessarily some state of grace.

Mick Jagger

#22. I believe that being dependent makes you more vulnerable. I believe work is the greatest gift you will ever receive.

Steve Southerland

#23. The experience of life teaches us that being like someone in love is more real, because everything is uncertain.

Abbas Kiarostami

#24. I'm going to lick you all over before this night is over, Sara, ... Suck your nipples until you are crazy with need, then spread you wide and lick you until you come and then, I'm going to do it all over again. I'm going to make sure you are so thoroughly fucked that being fucked has a new meaning.

Lisa Renee Jones

#25. People say that being a mother is the most important job you will ever have. And it is very important. But it is even more important, I believe, to be a wife, a good wife.

Heather Gudenkauf

#26. I discovered that being someone you are not is often easier than living with the person you are.

Richard Wagamese

#27. My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.

Zachary Levi

#28. To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.

Weegee

#29. We found ... that being a good parent to one's own child was never and in no way enough; until we were all responsible for all the children of the world, no child would ever be safe, no society could survive.

Eda LeShan

#30. I don't know if the unborn has rights, but I do know that being born again doesn't give you more rights.

A. Whitney Brown

#31. I'm a good person. In most ways. But I'm beginning to think that being a good person in most ways doesn't count for anything very much, if you're a bad person in one way.

Nick Hornby

#32. I'm sure that being sober all these years accounts for my ill humor.

Fran Lebowitz

#33. We had the fun of being outlaws. But there's a whole generation now coming up with new gender identities. For this generation of kids who don't think that being gay is anything special, they might be more interesting than any of us.

Dale Peck

#34. Some days I would be there at ten in the morning and wouldn't leave till ten at night, and the others would waltz in for a couple of hours and then leave, because I was doing that painting thing. And they were happy to see that being done.

Lindsey Buckingham

#35. Studying chimps, I came to the conclusion that being evil is something that only humans are capable of. A chimp would never plan to pull another's nails out. The chimps' way of aggression is quick and brutal. I compare them to gang attacks.

Jane Goodall

#36. My family likes to make fun of me, indicating that being able to cook is part of what makes a woman a woman. I disagree. Getting my period makes me a woman. Cooking just makes me bored.

Sarah Colonna

#37. I find that being oneself is an excellent choice, as everyone else is already taken.

April White

#38. It's not like a corporate job where the more you accumulate on your resume and the more hours you put in, the higher up you get; it's simply not the case. That being said, if I had known that and known what kind of career I'd get into, I still would have pursued it.

Jason Marsden

#39. I learned that being a mother takes a lot of energy.

Julia Sweeney

#40. I realized early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job. Because there are no pay grades and very little structure, people make interesting assumptions about the profession.

Sara Sheridan

#41. I had seen how in an instant, those you called friends could suddenly become tormentors, sniffing out a weakness or a difference, turning their own fear of ostracism into a weapon with which they could beat the victim away, afraid that being an outsider, and individual even, was somehow infectious.

Meera Syal

#42. The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.

Sophia Bush

#43. If Cam finally learned one lesson before she died, it would be that being kind was sometimes more important than being right.

Wendy Wunder

#44. He'd protect me and shelter me forever. But I was beginning to realize that being sheltered came at a price.

Claudia Gray

#45. Having a baby had always seemed the easiest and most natural thing to do, and I had never felt - even in my most furtive days of coming out - that being gay would mean I could not become a mother.

Kara Swisher

#46. I have come to recognize that being trustworthy does not demand that I be rigidly consistent but that I be dependably real ... Can I be expressive enough as a person that what I am will be communicated unambiguously?

Carl Rogers

#47. I think that being in an extreme natural setting, and letting the natural world and what it's doing permeate your thoughts, is super-interesting and super-important.

Lia Ices

#48. I keep hearing that being a geek is cool now, but I'm not sure the rest of the world has gotten the memo

Liz Czukas

#49. On a good day, I'm a first class prick, but even I know that being treated like you're disposable is something no one should ever be used to.

Melyssa Winchester

#50. To me 'they lived happily ever after' means to be happy with yourself! My parents always taught me that being happy has to work without Prince Charming. My life is completed without a prince but it's nice of course to have someone who loves you and fights for you.

Kristen Stewart

#51. A lot of people think that being a Gallagher Girl means not being afraid of anything. Actually, that couldn't be further from the truth. It's not about ignoring fear. It's about facing it, knowing the risks and the costs and sacrificing safety and security anyway.

Ally Carter

#52. I think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know of the world.

Charlie Kaufman

#53. If you used your head, if you became aware of how love was culturally constructed and began to see your symptoms as purely mental, if you recognized that being "in love" was only an idea, then you could liberate yourself from its tyranny

Jeffrey Eugenides

#54. People ask me, 'How's 'Teen Wolf?' and I tell them it's literally the best job I've ever had. It's hard. Everybody wants to be a series regular. It's something that a lot of actors would kill to have. That being said, it's very demanding of you, in so many different ways.

Shelley Hennig

#55. The idea that being scientific simply means being irreligious is a particularly naive one. It has caused a lot of confusion and will get us nowhere.

Mary Midgley

#56. Every minute you spend looking through clutter, wondering where you put this or that, being unable to focus because you're not organized costs you: time you could have spent with family or friends, time you could have been productive around the house, time you could have been making money.

Jean Chatzky

#57. I've come to realize that being a mother makes me a better executive, because motherhood forces prioritization. Being a mom gives you so much more clarity on what is important.

Marissa Mayer

#58. Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#59. Rapping can be repetition sometimes. Sometimes you gotta highlight your words in a certain kind of way. So I always was a fan of sing-rapping. It was always funny to me a little bit, and I think that being funny and being able to laugh, even at yourself, is a form of flattery.

ASAP Ferg

#60. Because of our situation, God has given us an opportunity to almost transcend our gender, which gives us a vision and sensitivity that other people don't have. They think that being white and male is going to save the world; but life is not The Lion King.

Jason Reeves

#61. I think that being perceptive and having interests is nothing but an asset.

Ashley Judd

#62. Perhaps we can bring the day when children will learn from their earliest days that being fully man and fully woman means to give one's life to the liberation of the brother [and sister] who suffers. It is up to each one of us. It won't happen unless we decide to use our lives to show the way.

Cesar Chavez

#63. In the meantime: (1) be direct; (2) remember that, being smarter than men, women respond to courtesy and kindness; (3) if you want to know what kind of a wife someone will make, observe her around her father and mother; (4) as to who gets out of the elevator first, I just can't help you.

David Mamet

#64. Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.

Joyce Maynard

#65. Experience shows that Being is the essential, basic nature of the mind; but, since It commonly remains in tune with the senses projecting outwards toward the manifested realms of creation, the mind misses or fails to appreciate its own essential nature, just as the eyes are unable to see themselves.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#66. Her sister, Vicky, had explained to her that being female, she had no choice but to be involved in the Battle of the Sexes.[MMT]

Nicholas Chong

#67. I wanted to be a comedian. I wanted to meet waitresses and felt that being a comedian was my best way to go about it and I was right.

Dana Gould

#68. It's an American worker's right to unionize for sure, but that being said, don't expect me not to point out when or if union leadership takes advantage of union members.

Joe Wurzelbacher

#69. It's challenging being a woman. There are other kinds of obstacles that come your way, but there are many times that being Latin has actually helped me, being a Cuban-American has helped me.

Eva Mendes

#70. She knew that being a mortal woman is hard on the heart, hard on the feet.

Philippa Gregory

#71. In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities.

Thomas Sowell

#72. [E]ven I know that being a parent is awful ninety-five percent of the time ... As far as I can tell, it's that last five percent that keeps the human race from dying out. Four parts blinding terror, one part perfection. It's like mainlining heroin. One taste of life on that edge and you're hooked.

Kimberly McCreight

#73. Since I've written many of my books from a less-than-sympathetic viewpoint, I think that being able to see things from all sides is a useful talent.

Alex Flinn

#74. When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.

Paul Merton

#75. I started to realise that being impolite saves an awful lot of time and costs you nothing.

Jeremy Clarkson

#76. I am the type of guy that has always been the same all of my life. My classmates at our class reunion always say the same thing. They could not believe that, being a world artist, I still seem like I was when we were at school together.

Percy Sledge

#77. It taught me, at an early age, that being wrong can be dangerous, but being right, when society regards the majority's falsehood as truth, could be fatal.

Thomas Szasz

#78. It took me a long time to expect more from myself. To see that being vulnerable takes a shitload more strength than being closed off and sullen.

Leisa Rayven

#79. Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever - stressing to patients that being known as a narcissist will actually cause them to lose the respect and social status they crave.

Jeffrey Kluger

#80. All I knew now was that nothing lasted forever, not even a friendship, and that being "different" felt the same as being alone.

Lauren Myracle

#81. When I was in my 20s, I thought that being known for 'Swimming Pool' was kind of a burden. Like, 'OK, everyone thinks I am this tanned bimbo,' and I was having problems coping with that image.

Ludivine Sagnier

#82. I think that being in an environment is a much richer experience than just working on a soundstage.

Kathy Bates

#83. Everyone says she's mad.'
'How do they know?' I asked.
'Because she's different from other people, I suppose.'
'Is that being mad?'
'No. Not really, I suppose madness is not seeing things as others see them.

Ruskin Bond

#84. 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

#85. I think that being a gentleman is what matters; taking them out to a nice dinner, open the doors, stuff like that.

Justin Bieber

#86. If you want to be happy, learn to be alone without being lonely. Learn that being alone does not mean being unhappy. The world is full of plenty of interesting and enjoyable things to do and people who can enrich your life.

Michael Josephson

#87. I often think that being a woman in this world must feel like waking up every day to find that someone deleted what you wrote the day before.

Rakesh Satyal

#88. When you become angry at someone, your anger will actually have a power. You can hit somebody in a non-physical way and it can injure that being.

Frederick Lenz

#89. Like the air, God's Grace is available to us. It is permeating every fibre of Being and the Being of the entire universe. When we take our attention to that Being, finer than the finest, then we establish ourselves on the level of God's Grace. Immediately we just enjoy. Life is Bliss!

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#90. I've almost lost several times but come through that. Being able to play your way through the tournament is really able to help.

Serena Williams

#91. Oh, my friend, what have you gone through that being called moral nearly makes you weep? Or was it being called friend?

Brent Weeks

#92. Irrationality is the exclusive preserve of humans as among all creatures only we have the power to rationalise, that being the art of packaging patently irrational as apparently rational.

R.N. Prasher

#93. There is something wonderfully sacred that happens when a girl chooses to realize that being set aside is actually God's call for her to be set apart.

Lysa TerKeurst

#94. When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me.

Ellen DeGeneres

#95. People say that being in love is amazing. They lie. It's freaking terrifying.

Molly McAdams

#96. I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.

Landon Donovan

#97. The way that being on the job works on your adrenaline highs and the crashes that come after the adrenaline highs. It really takes over your life.

Mireille Enos

#98. The whole world accepts that being stressed is the normal way to live.

Eckhart Tolle

#99. I'm the competitor, I'm the one who has to wear the brunt of that being a good or bad score. And I'm not too worried about it. I don't know why so many are to be honest with you.

Kelly Slater

#100. When Jesus defines the relationship he wants with us he makes it clear that being a fan who believes without making any real commitment to follow isn't an option.

Kyle Idleman