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.
Having power and being in a position of power can really blur your judgement, and it's not always that clear.
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I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.
Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.
There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks.
I presumed the president was being truthful until a series of events undercut that confidence.
Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq - a war more than a year away.
When I came out, when I was 17 years old, it was one of those things where I realized that there was going to be so many obstacles, but being gay doesn't mean being weak.
The legal principle placing the burden of proof on accusers rather than the accused can be traced back to Second and Third Century Roman jurist, Julius Paulus Prudentissimus. Yet, this ancient concept, which forms the legal and moral cornerstone of...
The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's second largest oil producer.
Two new workers are being added to the population for every one job that is created.
As a former presidential campaign manager, I remember the final week of the campaign as being the longest and most important week of the campaign. The week doesn't seem to end.
Given a choice between being happy or being efficient and safe, I'll take efficient and safe.
Human nature being what it is, people don't want to acknowledge that a problem exists when they know they have 35 other problems to deal with.
I don't feel any different than I did when I was 40. But I realize mathematically, I'm equidistant between that and 80. I'll keep doing this for a while, but I'm not going to be one of these people who...
Learning to not be selfish is what has changed in me the most since being married.
