Top 100 To Be Quotes
#1. We were reminded first-hand of the work that still needs to be done in Iraq on the security front when insurgents fired five rounds into the base while we were still meeting with the nurses.
Jon Porter
#2. that one thing that was absent was fire. There was no zeal, no enthusiasm, no apparent concern for us as members of the congregation. His whole attitude seemed to be detached and academic and formal. Let
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#3. It's so nice to be a spoke in the wheel, one that helps to turn, not one that hinders.
Gertrude Bell
#4. That becomes the revolution, to be idealistic enough that you think you can change the world, and what you find is you can't change anything but yourself.
Marilyn Manson
#5. I think of basset hounds whenever I turn on my computer because I have photos of them. And if I'm lucky, and I see one on the street, I know it's going to be a good day. They really are like a four-leaf clover.
Julie Klausner
#6. The world will knock you down plenty. You don't need to be doing it to yourself.
Elizabeth Scott
#7. I think for me to find that project is going to be something that I'm going to have to develop for myself.
Nia Long
#8. To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?
Edith Wharton
#9. To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor.
Michael Novak
#10. They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.
Norman Douglas
#11. I'm a Libra. I'm happy to be an air sign, but I do think I have a little too much air in my chart as a whole - some more water would be useful, especially in my personal life, as an emotional counterweight to all that abstraction.
Eleanor Catton
#12. I think the idea of the lone tormented artist - which we can apply to others - I think that it needs to be revisited. Jack Kerouac needs to be seen in the context of a lot of other artistic activity.
Anne Waldman
#13. It's lovely to be recognized in your own country, but I feel that there's more.
Tessanne Chin
#14. Each period had required me to be a slightly different person, and that was exhausting. I wondered if school had always felt this way and whether it was like this for everone.
Gabrielle Zevin
#15. Family is more than DNA, more than who we used to be, more than we can imagine we will become.
Regina Brett
#16. I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind.
Johnny Vegas
#18. The country - or the government - is headed for bankruptcy. So we're going to be continuing to speak out against corporate welfare as something that hurts everybody except those direct beneficiaries.
Charles Koch
#19. Suffering happens when we expect life to be something more and different than what it is in the present moment. When we let go of all expectations, there is peace.
Kim Eng
#20. Should be a pleasant flight, Mr. and soon-to-be Mrs. Ryel," the pilot said. Jared's grin stretched the width of his face. "I might have paid him extra to say that." "I figured as much," I teased.
Jamie McGuire
#21. No one tells you that it hurts this much to be a grown-up. That people are so complicated they end up hurting each other to self preserve.
Tarryn Fisher
#22. The gospel is the food of faith ... God saves by causing Himself to be known and enjoyed in Christ.
Herman Bavinck
#23. [BURR]
We dream of a brand new start, but we dream in the dark for the most part. Dark as a tomb where it happens. I've got to be in the room where it happens.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
#24. But this is what it means to be civilized - doing what her betters say she should, for the ostensible good of all.
N.K. Jemisin
#25. After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.
Barbara Deming
#26. Evie," he says quietly, finally looking at me, "what I mean is, when I fuck you, you're going to be mine. Is that clear enough for you?
Mia Sheridan
#27. I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I keep forgetting to think of 'Charles II' as a costume drama.
Martin Freeman
#28. Anyone with any degree of mental toughness ought to be able to exist without the things they like most for a few months at least.
Georgia O'Keeffe
#29. I don't want to promote paranoia. It's not like wow, everybody is after me. You know that's not going to be very powerful. A person like Stalin was like that and he was powerful, but it ended up completely destroying him because he couldn't trust anyone.
Robert Greene
#30. A lot of nerds aren't aware they're nerds. A geek has thrown his hands up to the universe and gone, 'I speak Klingon - who am I fooling? You win! I'm just gonna openly like what I like.' Geeks tend to be a little happier with themselves.
Patton Oswalt
#31. Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.
Duke Ellington
#32. William, an artist is someone who combines a desperate need to be understood with the fiercest love of privacy-
Garth Risk Hallberg
#33. It does not pay a prophet to be too specific." - L. Sprague de Camp
Robert A. Heinlein
#34. Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!
Denis Waitley
#35. He believed in Communism the way most people believed in God: he would not be greatly surprised or disappointed if he turned out to be wrong, and meanwhile it made little difference to the way he lived.
Ken Follett
#36. I think that by telling the truth and by attempting to be a good citizen, somehow I've ended up playing with fire. And that's really scary.
Cecily McMillan
#37. He wondered how sick in heart a woman needed to be for her to forsake a delight in flowers.
Vann Turner
#38. Of the many rights of ladies, the best should be to be considered a mother.
Lin Yutang
#39. For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.
Bruce Jackson
#40. By the time I was 25 or 26, I would have earned a million, but if you looked in the bank account, it's not there because I've spent it. That's what it's there for. I don't want to be the richest bloke in the graveyard. Look at Elvis.
Eric Bristow
#42. There's an appreciation of the whole picture of life as opposed to just ambition and circumstance and all the stuff that happens in this business. You find yourself lucky enough to be working with somebody really talented who you know and who you trust.
Wayne Knight
#43. Women can be pressured to be perfect in many ways. And in our efforts to be "responsible" in every way, you might lose time and energy. If you truly want to direct [a film], you may have to let go of pleasing everyone on a consistent basis.
Jennifer Phang
#44. If you go through some big corporate change, it's just not going to be the same. If we sold to Yahoo, they would have done something different; if you want to continue your vision of the company, then don't sell because there's inevitably going to be some change.
Mark Zuckerberg
#45. Follow your curiosity and serve yourself a unique blend of books that no one else is reading. Read for variety. The more different types of voices you read, the more your brain will get the message that it's okay to be who you are.
Phoebe Kitanidis
#46. It is to be doubted whether anybody who said good-bye to Bert had any faith or interest whatsoever in the life everlasting. This life had, some of them thought, been quite bad enough.
Margaret Drabble
#47. There's only two ways to be completely alone in this world, lost in a crowd or in total isolation ...
Jeff Lemire
#48. I've always played every amp I've ever had full up, because rock and roll is supposed to be played loud. Also, that's how you get your sustain.
Ritchie Blackmore
#49. The only oxygen to be found was the pale band of skin on Adam's wrist where his watch had been and the glimpse of the sky between classes.
Maggie Stiefvater
#50. My mother taught me to be nice to everybody. And she said something before I left home. She said, 'I want you to always remember that the person you are in this world is a reflection of the job I did as a mother.'
Jason Segel
#51. If you place the imperfect next to the perfect, people will see the difference between the one and the other. But if you offer the imperfect alone, people are only too apt to be satisfied by it.
Alfred Stieglitz
#52. I think in any situation, so much of effective leadership is when it comes from your own personality. And I feel very fortunate to be comfortable in the Colts locker room, where people can be who they are, and they don't have to change it when they show up to work that day.
Andrew Luck
#53. My home is a happy place to be. I bless everyone who enters, myself included. Pleasant experiences fill every room.
Louise Hay
#54. I always wondered what people thought of it because it looked so stupid to me on the page and I loved the other finale so I thought it was going to be really stupid but some people really liked it.
Mary-Louise Parker
#55. The greatest contribution you can make to women's rights, is to be the absolute ... best at what you do.
Oprah Winfrey
#56. Hairdressers don't judge you. They pretty much accept everything because they've heard everything. They're on your side, like a cheerleader, and there's no competition. They don't want to be you, and you don't want to be them.
Jennifer Flavin
#57. It seems to me like all these people claim to be the victim,
Acting like the whole entire world is out to get them.
Stand up on your own,
And prove that you are grown,
Because the life that you save may be your own.
Lee Majors
#58. Peace is not a Natural Phenomenon, it is violence that is Natural. Peace needs to be imposed, Violence comes on its own. That is the reason why despite of so many efforts, Humanity is still deprived of permanent Peace.
Tarif Naaz
#59. Every contact we have with a customer influences whether or not they'll come back. We have to be great every time or we'll lose them.
Kevin Stirtz
#60. You have to be generous if you want to spend your time making someone else dinner. Even if you're charging, you're still giving.
Mario Batali
#61. If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take 'myself,' subtract 'movies,' and the result is 'zero.'
Akira Kurosawa
#62. Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.
Charles Spurgeon
#63. Everything that comes our way is so we can grow and evolve, and if we look at it like that, then we have the great opportunity to step into who we always wanted to be.
Debbie Ford
#64. For the facts that make up the world need the non-factual as a vantage point from which to be perceived.
Ingeborg Bachmann
#65. I'm secure in who I am. I don't need the validation of those that would say, you have to be a certain thing in order to be accepted. I'm comfortable going against the grain if I need to.
J. C. Watts
#66. There are ledgers. Those I kill. Those I reward."
"There are legends. You used to be one."
"I am a legend."
"Dani's a legend. Not you."
"This Dani appears to matter to you."
"Always."
"Perhaps you had a funny way of showing it.
Karen Marie Moning
#67. It is harder to be unhappy when you are eating Craig's Ice Cream
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#68. Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team.
Bob Cousy
#69. He who holds on to the Way seeks no excess. Since he lacks excess, he can grow old in no need to be renewed.
Laozi
#70. I love what I do ... When I'm in there I don't want to be nowhere else in the world ... I love this game more than anything.
Conor McGregor
#71. I want there to be another independence referendum at some stage. I want Scotland to be independent, but I wouldn't choose to have it happen because England votes to come out of the E.U.
Nicola Sturgeon
#72. We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#73. You and me? We are never going to be just friends. The only time I'm not adoring you is when I am too busy hating you and wishing to God I never met you ...
Thomm Quackenbush
#75. Well, we better be quick and not become human popsicles. I'm going to be really upset at you if I freeze to death. (Shahara)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#76. There are people in the world who won't watch a movie that's in black and white. There's got to be a special place in hell for them.
Michael McKean
#77. There are, in the King case in particular, some names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous.
Louis Stokes
#78. My parents instilled in me that life was going to be very difficult and that I'd have to work for everything.
Joan Collins
#80. Being an artist is very independent thinking, although there's always going to be a lot of doubt.
Brice Marden
#81. The day you chose to leave me it rained constantly in truth I swore the rain to be the tears of cuspids eyes.
Tupac Shakur
#82. I don't do this to be healthy, I do this to get big muscles.
Markus Ruhl
#84. I wanted to be a film and television writer and producer.
Tyra Banks
#85. Our purpose is to be up here to resolve these issues. Our purpose is to be up here and represent the people.
Allen West
#86. It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.
Maya Lin
#87. An attractive, elegant, slim woman. The sort of woman she never thought it was possible for her to be. She had become one of those women, those other women, who had seemed too perfectly put together to be real.
Liane Moriarty
#88. I would like it to be said: here lies a man who has done his duty on earth
Nelson Mandela
#89. But, something has to be worked through formally as well as emotionally. Now, when those two things come together I've got something, I think, that I can be proud of.
Edward Hirsch
#90. After the events of last week, I'm appalled at the standard Australia seems to be willing to accept in regards to its own behaviour and the behaviour of our leaders. Accuse me of playing the gender card all you like, but I will not walk past it any more. You might consider joining me.
Clementine Ford
#91. To be original is not creating your own idea; it's the essence of the idea in the reader's mind.
Kaela Marooney
#92. I am not supposed to be here," he said. Drew circled her arm through his. "Oh, please. You're perfect here, sweetie.
Rick Riordan
#93. I don't want to let my life as a woman pass me by. There's a time to work, there's a time to be young and crazy, and there should be a time to enjoy motherhood. I'm actually looking forward to that.
Diane Kruger
#94. I was writing Diamonds and Rust' and it had nothing to do with what it turned out to be. I don't remember what it is, but I think I was writing a song. It was literally interrupted by a phone call, and it just took another curve and it came out to be what it was.
Joan Baez
#95. I just want to be able to sit on grass as long as I want to, without anybody telling me to leave. Everything is so restricted, here, in that you actually have to stand behind a line, you can't go up the Canyon and enjoy the view.
Franka Potente
#96. If you don't want to be a slave, stop acting like a slave.
Stefan Molyneux
#97. If Christianity should happen to be true - that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe - then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#98. Love being the only flower that opens and reaches for the light. Light will always come, because it longs to be reached for, and darkness is put away.
Tanna Marie Angers
#99. It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
Agnes Repplier
#100. Safety Tip: Over the years I have learned that tackling the hard stuff in the morning is the most productive way to start your day. After the hard stuff is done, you get to do some fun stuff later, and this allows you to be more productive.
John Richard Pierce
