Being Quotes
On identity, openness and staying true to yourself.
This set of quotes explores what it means to simply be: holding onto a child's spontaneity, embracing honesty that feels inappropriate in creative work, or aging with flexibility instead of resistance. For more on self-belief, see our Able quotes.
All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.
Just because I was almost 62, I did not feel decrepit and felt I wasn't finished being a soldier yet.
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I started out in theatre, and there's no better feeling than the adrenaline of being on stage.
I still think of my mum as being kind of a dork - a cooler one, but still a dork.
When I went on tour with my father, I knew he was a musician. But they were my parents. I still think of my mum as being kind of a dork - a cooler one, but still a dork.
I do think that being a BAME actor does make it difficult to avoid stereotypes.
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...
The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
I didn't grow up with any concept of people being deviants unless they mistreated others.
I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall.
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.
Arizona's law makes what is already a federal offense - being in the country illegally - a state offense. Some critics seem not to understand Arizona's right to assert concurrent jurisdiction.
But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.
I realized that food was actually a metaphor for bringing us all together. It's about us communicating and being like family.
Not considering this opening worthy of more attention, I continued our pursuit to the Northwest, being desirous to embrace the advantages of the prevailing breeze.
For many centuries, humans have speculated that there might be planetary systems around other stars and that there could be extraterrestrial life there and even intelligent being. However, those were simply speculations, and now we have evidence for the first...
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
