Being Quotes

Being gifted needs courage.

~ Georg Brandes

One of the few luxuries left is travel. And the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there.

~ Andre Balazs

There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate.

~ Seth Green

Being an Ethiopian-born, Swedish-raised chef, there's nothing traditional about my Thanksgiving spread.

~ Marcus Samuelsson

Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.

~ Biz Stone

All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.

~ Sam Walton

I learned about being positive from my parents. They're the most positive people I've ever known.

~ Brendon Urie

I always welcome being part of something positive in WWE.

~ Mick Foley

Birthday Alarm was a very simple site based on being reminded of your friends' birthdays.

~ Michael Birch

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

~ Paul Tillich

The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.

~ John Piper

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

~ Paul Tillich

I design for the woman who loves being a woman.

~ Diane Von Furstenberg

Being inspired is one thing, but completely knocking off a design is another. There is a big difference.

~ Edgardo Osorio

Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS.

~ Douglas Wilson

Marriage is traditionally old-school in many respects. It is highly antiquated, and, that being said, beautiful.

~ Lake Bell

We can trust ourselves to know when our boundaries are being violated.

~ Melody Beattie

Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is forgiveness.

~ Lewis B. Smedes

Actually being funny is mostly telling the truth about things.

~ Bernard Sahlins

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

~ Paul Merton

Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.

~ Kaitlin Olson

If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.

~ Seth Macfarlane

Art is the path to being spiritual.

~ Piet Mondrian

Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion.

~ Miguel

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

~ Diogenes

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

~ Charles Baudelaire

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

~ Charles Baudelaire

Being political is an integral part of being Iranian. Our lives are defined by politics.

~ Shirin Neshat

Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

~ C. Northcote Parkinson

Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.

~ Edward Kennedy

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.

~ Sylvia Plath

The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered... This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust and this is the lesson which Auschwitz taught us.

~ Ariel Sharon

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

~ Lady Gaga

What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them.

~ Boy George

I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.

~ Caitlin Moran

My mom used to get arrested for being with my dad. She would get fined. She would spend weekends in jail.

~ Trevor Noah

Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.

~ Annette Funicello

I love playing moms. It's a lot easier than being a mom, I hear.

~ Faith Ford

I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser.

~ Nikki Sixx

I'm obsessed with being a mom.

~ Kourtney Kardashian