Being Quotes

No matter where you go, there you are. (Uriel to Harry Dresden)

And when all is said and done, there is no greater success in the world than just being happy.

I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority.

I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.

Whenever I'm offered something, I always read the script and meet the director. I still appreciate just being considered.

Giving honest and well-intended feedback is often confused with being mean. It's not mean; it's nice.

The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.

Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part.

One of my first memories of being a kid was, 'I want to have a real job when I grow up.' And to me that meant you wear a suit and a hat and carry a briefcase and go to your job.

I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes over.

Everyone's projecting onto you, or you feel like everyone is judging you. I feel like I'm being judged a lot of the time. You become really self-conscious.

He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.

There are two kinds of freedom: one is the freedom from something, which is a reaction; and the other is not a reaction, it is "being free."

Everybody always tells you what an awesome and unique experience being a parent is. Words can never do the feeling justice.

We must each learn to feel comfortable in our own uniqueness by rising above the fear of being wrong and the aversion to being different.

Being accepted by the world is the worst thing that can happen to the Church.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing.

Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.

As the saying goes, I want to be the best-looking corpse there is.

Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.

Canadian money is also called the loony. How can you take an economic crisis seriously?

But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public

Why is it that people think staying in a bad relationship is better than being single? Don't they know that being single is the first step to finding a great relationship?

My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman.

You are human, you will make mistakes, and it's one of the most beautiful things about being human, but you must learn from your mistakes, otherwise your life will have a lot of unnecessary pain.

Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. Its about being there at big moments, but its also just the consistency of decision making. And its routine.

On cannot be precise, and still be true.

In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us... The artist lives with anxiety.

I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.

It's important to me that people can associate being different with being beautiful.

The love of violence is an aspect of our humanity. Even the weak wish to be strong primarily so they can wield the whip.

Gravity was something you could beat; all it took was hydrogen, hot air, or even a bit of rope. But being a girl was a miserable, never-ending struggle.

Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.

I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

You know, there's nothing damnable about being a strong woman. The world needs strong women.

I always wanted to be a movie star. I thought it meant being famous and having breakfast in bed. I didn't know you had to be up at 4:00 a.m.

I believe a man is better anchored who has a belief in the Supreme Being.

Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocracy

Sometimes being honest with someone or hearing the truth hurts, but it is always better to be honest and accept what is.

Just being alive It can really hurt These moments given Are a gift from time.

There will be difficulties to face on the way to being successful. You can weather the storms.

Well, I was already so happy being chosen to do the issue itself, that when I got on the cover, it was even more of a surprise and even more amazing to me.

One of the few advantages to not being beautiful is that one usually gets better-looking as one gets older. I am, in fact, at this very moment gaining my looks.

I do explore the emotion every once in a while. I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

Other things being equal, ill will is worse than moral indifference (as in causing suffering for money vs causing suffering to cause suffering), though things are rarely equal.

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed.

The problem is the people who tend to be the best organized are the most radical and the most vicious.