Quotes
Quotes about Being
Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk.
In poison there is physic; and these news, Having been well, that would have made me sick, Being sick, have in some measure made me well.
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.
What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.
Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. So, melancholy is morbid only when it occupies too much place in life; but it is equally morbid for it to be wholly excluded from life.
I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.
to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
Being a gentleman is the number one priority, the chief question integral to our national life.
Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
Only a few human beings should grow to the square mile; they are commonly planted too close.
Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.
There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.
Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend, and my best friend's my wife. Who could ask for anything more?
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings.
Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, Let us be merciful as well as just.
Surely, sir, There's in him stuff that puts him to these ends; For, being not propped by ancestry, whose grace Chalks successors their way, nor called upon For high feats done to th' crown, neither allied To eminent assistants, but spiderlike Out of his self-drawing web, 'a gives us note, The force of his own merit makes his way, A gift that heaven gives for him, which buys A place next to the king.
Some credit in being jolly.
As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he as a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.
Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man. Behold, "There is a God," thou sayest. Thou sayest well: In that thou sayest all. To Be is more Of wonderful, than being, to have wrought, Or reigned, or rested.
