We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country.
~By Charles Foster Bass ~
The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.
~By James M. Baldwin ~
I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along.
~By Piers Anthony ~
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
~By Octavia Butler ~
To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.
~By Georges Bataille ~
One of the things that became clear, and which was actually rather disturbing, was the fact that there was a view which was being expressed by people whose scientific credentials you can't question.
~By Thabo Mbeki ~
People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.
~By Scott Turow ~
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
~By Margaret Fuller ~
My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.
~By Angie Dickinson ~
Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived, but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party.
~By Simon Hoggart ~
Eddie is a natural leader. Jeff and I have been very much in control of previous bands we've worked in. But the way Eddie grew into being the leader of this band was the most gradual, slow and respectful process that I've ever been involved in.
~By Stone Gossard ~
Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
~By Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~
When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader.
~By Guillermo Cabrera Infante ~
This foundational principle - that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the State, or any other source - is what made America different.
~By Ernie Fletcher ~
Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.
~By Ed McMahon ~
If I had to compare any of the two, I'd compare the first one in Edmonton, the first one here in New York because it had been so long in New York since we had won. Obviously, being the first time to ever win the cup in Edmonton, they were fairly similar in that regard.
~By Mark Messier ~
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
~By Charles Kingsley ~
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
~By Alan Watts ~
Human beings are creators, flinging powerful images into the minds of their fellow men. And all of these images are built of tiny particles of thought.
~By Roy H. Williams ~
I've traveled more than any human being who's ever lived.
~By Gary Player ~
Being a singer is a way for me to get to a platform to do more.
~By Chaka Khan ~
I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.
~By Danny Boyle ~
But when I disappeared, it sort of pissed me off, that guys get to go on being sexual until they're seventy or eighty, and we disappear at forty-five or fifty.
~By Candice Bergen ~
I think, especially in our business we meet a lot of people, and sometimes you spend so much time being nice to strangers, and so, you know, keeping a clear head and just being nice to each other. And that's all the advice I can give.
~By Catherine Zeta-Jones ~
We're just being ourselves and having fun playing baseball. The biggest thing is when people look at our team, they can see that we're having a lot of fun.
~By Johnny Damon ~
Early in my career I was accused of being overconfident and even cocky, but I really was confident that I had done the training and didn't see any other reason to say otherwise.
~By Alberto Salazar ~
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
~By Josh Billings ~
The truth of the matter was that I made myself disappear. I never liked being a Judge, so I just decided to start over. Sorry to inconvenience anyone.
~By Joseph Force Crater ~
People still look at Michael Jackson as being a Motown artist.
~By Smokey Robinson ~
This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.
~By Tavis Smiley ~
We are Americans. We - we - we are - we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We are store keepers. We are lawyers. We are - we are part of the fabric of America. And the way that America today treats its Muslims is being watched by over a billion Muslims worldwide.
~By Feisal Abdul Rauf ~
Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.
~By Rita Dove ~
To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.
~By Tryon Edwards ~
Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records.
~By Stephen Stills ~
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
~By Sidonie Gabrielle Colette ~
You tend to meet on a more regular basis with people in your industry, and reality being what it is, you tend to meet with them at the particular level that you occupy; so that develops a fraternity relationship.
~By Lew Wasserman ~
Now I can go back to being ruthless again.
~By Robert Kennedy ~
Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.
~By Edgar Watson Howe ~
Terry said he had this new kid and his wife didn't want to live in England. He wanted to tour. He hated being in the studio. Terry liked seeing various bars the world over and getting smashed out of his brain. He was a sort of latent Keith Moon.
~By Andy Partridge ~
I enjoy being part of the entertainment industry, although I'm the laziest person that I've met yet in this business.
~By Paul Hogan ~
At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known.
~By May Sinclair ~
Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing: You're reconstructing the manifold of behavior to the point where an audience says, yes, that's exactly like people I know.
~By Jonathan Miller ~
Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community.
~By Rod Blagojevich ~
The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
~By Samuel Morse ~
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
~By Rita Rudner ~
After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player.
~By Ornette Coleman ~
Today I divide my day between being actor, producer and distributor, and the monotony is broken.
~By Ajay Devgan ~
I am confident that I can serve my country without being involved as the president of the country now.
~By Jean-Bertrand Aristide ~
I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable.
~By Pat Morita ~
Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to.
~By Stuart Appleby ~
I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.
~By Bill Bruford ~
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
I really believe that's one of the many reasons that God had put me right in the middle of the Backstreet Boys. There are so many stars today that don't realize the impact they have on young people. Being a superstar is great, as long as you can be a positive role model.
~By Brian Littrell ~
I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.
~By Johnny Depp ~
Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.
~By Steve Wynn ~
Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.
~By Olympia Dukakis ~
Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.
~By John Acton ~
Every portal coming into this country is being attacked by those who would harvest information, both national security secrets and just the common information of private individuals and private individuals. That crime is going on, every day, on a single entity known as the Internet.
~By Darrell Issa ~
'Hunger' definitely changed my life, in terms of being recognized by filmmakers, since that was very much a filmmakers' film.
~By Michael Fassbender ~
I hate how I've had the mantle set on my shoulders as being against the record label. We've had some issues, but that is the nature of business.
~By Sheryl Crow ~
The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.
~By Scott Turow ~
I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being submerged within that, at the startling green color of those ferns.
~By John Sexton ~
People fantasize about being a hero and helping someone in trouble. Batman is that fantasy realized-not just for Bruce Wayne, but for the audience. Inwardly, Bruce Wayne is still an adolescent watching his parents being murdered. That will never leave him. And people really relate to that.
~By Kevin Conroy ~
It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
~By Richard P. Feynman ~
If I could embed a locator chip in my child right now, I know I would do that. Some people call that Big Brother; I call it being a father.
~By Scott McNealy ~
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.
~By John Boorman ~
Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
~By Abraham Joshua Heschel ~
We loved being in Russia and would love to go back again, especially to visit my namesake.
~By Eric Roberts ~
When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd already written. And I didn't want to be an actor.
~By David Antin ~
I'm being trained to shake the bon-bon appropriately.
~By Clay Aiken ~
My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.
~By Antonia Fraser ~
I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.
~By Patricia Heaton ~
The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.
~By Sydney Madwed ~
You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get them interested in you.
~By Charles M. Allen ~
People should realize women aren't just whores or virgins, I want to see women who are real human beings.
~By Kate Beckinsale ~
I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.
~By Carter G. Woodson ~
When you try to figure out what the religious right is, it ultimately comes down either to one man, Pat Robertson, or anyone who believes in a higher being and wants their taxes cut.
~By Ann Coulter ~
And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.
~By John Chrysostom ~
Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.
~By Bill Gates ~
When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.
~By Joel Osteen ~
This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.
~By Herman Hesse ~
Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.
~By Francis Parkman ~
Every human being makes mistakes.
~By Ian Smith ~
Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
~By John Berger ~
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.
~By Cesare Pavese ~
The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
~By Dan Castellaneta ~
It is quite lovely being single, and I much prefer it.
~By Anna Held ~
I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door.
~By Paul Muldoon ~
Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
~By Bernard Meltzer ~
All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture.
~By Mangosuthu Buthelezi ~
We should be inspired by people... who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances.
~By Rachel Corrie ~
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
~By Joseph Campbell ~
The Busted thing happened when I was 16. I saw an opportunity, took it and it was better than being at school. It was a fun job but I'd never claim Busted was anything other than a pop band.
~By Charlie Simpson ~
I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is.
~By Deborah Bull ~
The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
~By George Orwell ~
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