Being Quotations | Page 2

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.

My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music.

Be yourself, fill your life with good people, and don't get a big head. It can all be gone tomorrow.

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

Being pregnant is supposed to be the happiest time in your life.

Being confident is the key to life. Don't be afraid to be you! I'm super different from a lot of kids my age with style and personality, and I'm OK with it. And if you are OK with it, everyone else will be, too. Just be yourself.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

I think that one of the things that you do learn is that falling in love and being in love with someone is a rarity. That you don't fall in love as many times as you think you're going to. And then when you do, it's really special; it's really important.

What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.

Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.

Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.

Just being hired by a great director is complimentary.

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

Be yourself. You're okay. And it really doesn't matter what other people think.

The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out.

I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring.

The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can truly be yourself around.

Being a strong woman is very important to me. But doing it all on my own is not.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

Hotness is uniqueness and just being yourself - that's hot.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.

I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Being a father makes everything in the world make sense.

Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.

Don't try to be somebody you're not because it doesn't work. If you try to be this perfect person or perfect persona of what you think that somebody should be when they're involved in public office, it's just not going to work. Just be yourself, stay true to your core values, and really just stay abreast of the issues.

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

Everyday I strive to, at least, recognise my short-comings and the things I have to do to be the best person that I can possibly be.

Some people like you, some people don't. In the end you just have to be yourself.

Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do.

Life is too short to be a boring company.

I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be.

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.

You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say - in the fifties you couldn't say birth or even be pregnant hardly on television - and then gradually things have changed.

Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.

You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.

Even though I don't necessarily believe in everything that's supernatural, I like being scared and I like things that are suspenseful.

Just be yourself and forget all of the stuff you read in 'GQ' magazine.

I do take very good care of myself, and I'm always in love. And by that I mean I have an appetite for life. I'm in love with beauty and things and people and love and being in love, and those things I think, on the inside, show on the outside.

Happiness to me is simply not being unhappy.

People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.

All we ask is to be let alone.

Within the human being there exists both the needful and the needed. You know that the needful exists in you. Your own dissatisfaction tells you so. But you believe the needed is somewhere outside of you.

I want someone who is open-minded, dedicated to whatever she is doing and isn't afraid to say I love you. As for looks, she shouldn't have three heads. I want a regular human being.

You cant think about things you want to change. Just be yourself.

I trained at The Groundlings and was surrounded by some very funny women and also some very unfunny men. I didn't feel a sense of things being different because I was a girl.

People have a problem with me being different, but that propels me forward in life.

Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, some kids are taught at an early age that being different is somehow bad or wrong or worthy of ridicule.

There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.

My advice: Take a second out of the day today and be thankful for your family.

Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.

I don't think being beautiful takes away from your credibility.

And I felt sorry, and I have felt bad about what happened.

I love every second of being a mom.

I don't want to be the cliche American Idol dude. I want to be different, you know - that's the whole goal, me and music. It's about being yourself and being unique.

Where anti-Semitism persists, the well being of all our people is at risk.

The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself.

We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

In life, you have to take the pace that love goes. You don't force it. You just don't force love, you don't force falling in love, you don't force being in love - you just become. I don't know how to say that in English, but you just feel it.

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

You keep shooting. You hope it goes in, and you smile.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

I always took a great deal of pride in being original.

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

I enjoy being single, but I loved being married.

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.

My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happy being in my house, I love cooking.

Amidst one's daily clutter, one doesn't usually reflect on the splendour of being free because - naturally - one has to get on with the business of living.

Picking a best friend who stands up for what she believes in, is true to herself and allows you to be yourself without judgement of how 'cool' you are? Well, now you're picking a friend for life.

That's not a villain, that's a man whose a victim of being in love with the wrong one.

Since God is the foundation of my life, anything that streams from that can only be positive.

The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what's popular.

Being yourself is what will make you survive through anything. If you make music to please someone, it's the first step in the wrong direction. Always do what you believe in, no matter what people say. Only way to go!

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

It is difficult to be yourself on court, as you become very involved in the match and very focused.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

There will always be a Beach Boys. Being a Beach Boy is like being in love

I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.

Being in love is the only transcendent experience.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved.

Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.

I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentally good - as long as you're not being bad to people - people give you a lot of room to be yourself, because being yourself is being honest. And that's what people want to see.

Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.

There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself.

Follow your passion. Be yourself, but check yourself before you wreck yourself.

I never planned to be rich, frankly speaking. I was more interested in being free, and doing things. And money helps. But otherwise I was never that interested in it.

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.