Quotes About Being U

“Beware how you take hope from another human being. - Oliver Wendell Holms Jr.,”

— Max Allan Collins

“To answer your question as honestly as I can, I've wanted since I was very little to not have to worry about money. I've never been poverty-level poor (I mean, there's been years where I've been officially beneath the poverty line, but that wasn't poverty: that was being a student and living the Student Lifestyle), but I've been in a place where you know you can't afford a better-quality food, where you can't do certain things because of money, and I'd prefer not to have those problems if I can. I sort of have troubles with money in general, with how it determines so much of our lives but with how we all try to ignore it, but I would like to be (and stay) in a place where I can pick up some new comics and games and not worry about how much they cost.
This is terrible; you're asking me where I want to be in the future, what I want my life to be like, and the only thing I can tell you is Man, all I know is I don't want to be POOR.”

— Ryan North

“Many women say that verbal violence causes more harm than physical violence because it damages self-esteem so deeply. Women have not wanted to hear battered women say that the verbal abuse was as hurtful as the physical abuse: to acknowledge that truth would be tantamount to acknowledging that virtually every woman is a battered woman. It is difficult to keep strong against accusations of being a bitch, stupid, inferior, etc., etc.”

— Suzanne Pharr

“Modern mass culture, aimed at the 'consumer', the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being.”

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“I've had it with being nice, understanding, fair and hopeful. I feel like being negative all day. The chip on my shoulder could sink the QE2. I've got an attitude problem and nobody better get in my way ... I'm in a bad mood and the whole stupid little world is gonna pay!”

— John Waters

“If you're a writer, you'll know it by the distinct feeling of only being able to breathe properly when alone with your characters. All other times, I'm panting
just pining for the next time I can be with them.”

— Karen Luellen

“Mind is indeed the Builder ... what is held in the act of mental vision becomes a reality in the material experience. We are gradually builded to that image created within our own mental being.”

— Edgar Cayce

“It's not the scar and it's abso-freakin-lutely not you."
I dropped my hand. "Yeah, right." I sagged against him a little. For being as little as he is, Frankie's really solid. "It's never me."
I felt his sigh against my shoulder blades.”

— Melissa Jensen

“Gospel music to me has always been a balm for the soul. It has been able to usher in the spirit, usher in worship, true worship and praise, healing. I find the music to be very good at healing and the passion, you know, which is a testimony being told in song.”

— Kim Fields

“Don't be ridiculous! You waste less time than anyone I know.'
'You don't know, sweetie. For years I've had down days. Days I just can't cope. Can't get on with anything. Can't get up and out or at it or whatever.'
'Not enough to keep you from being invaluable politically.”

— Marge Piercy

“Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

“And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.”

— Minoru Yamasaki

“Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.”

— Tony Parsons

“Sadly, I can't avoid being 75. Like many people of my age, we are all heading towards the grim reaper, and I am clinging on. I just to have to sharpen my fingernails a little so that I can hang on for longer!”

— Terry Wogan

“The Rich man was let alone in his sin suffered to go on without molestation. He fared sumptuously every day, slept secure and expected no disturbance. And the first of his awaking out of his security was when he lifted up his eyes that were now opened being in torments.”

— Jonathan Edwards

“The hard fact of friendship is that you need to make time for new friends by first stripping out the people who are using your energy in an unsatisfying way. You have to take that risk of being friendless to make room in your life for others who will be your new best friends”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Her gut ached, as if love was being dug out of her with a dull knife.”

— Janet Fitch

“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 American judicial system, is quickly being undermined in the name of 'national security.'”

— Bob Barr

“I'm just a normal girl who really enjoys her job, and so you have to take the other things that come with being in the public eye.”

— Jessica Szohr

“I have no self-centeredness or ego about being a movie star.”

— Shah Rukh Khan

“Plenty of funds have fine long-term returns despite being tax-inefficient and generally costly. But a dirty secret is this: Average, no-load fund investors do much worse than the funds - or the market.”

— Kenneth Fisher

“The ideal girl is driven, working on something other than modeling or being a singer.”

— Drake

“As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.”

— Alan Moore

“Being human means having doubts and yet still continuing on your path.”

— Paulo Coelho

“He suddenly felt tremendously happy. He could always go back to being a shepherd. He could always become a crystal salesman again.”

— Paulo Coelho

“No one could ever argue with me about people in show business being kind of nice.”

— Desi Arnaz

“Are you keeping anything else from me?"
"I'm keeping a lot of things from you."
"Like?"
"Like the way I feel about being locked up in here with you. You have no idea what you do to me.”

— Becca Fitzpatrick

“Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will. Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race. What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.”

— Marquis De Sade

“I don't intend to be menacing, but I do think of life as being essentially dangerous. We never know what's going to happen from one day to the next.”

— Alex Colville

“More and more of our finest actors are finding room for themselves in the world of television - but I truly believe it's because some of the best stories are being told there.”

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

“There is no doubt in my mind, after 37 years of study and investigation that the evidence is overwhelming that planet Earth is being visited by intelligently controlled vehicles whose origin is extraterrestrial. There are no acceptable arguments against flying saucer reality, only people who either haven't studied the relevant data or have a strong will not to believe that Earth is at the bottom of the heap sociologically and technologically in our local galactic neighborhood.”

— Stanton T. Friedman

“Accomplished a bit more for Bush than for Gore only because there were more question marks for Bush. I think he established that he possesses at least the minimum qualifications for being president.”

— Stuart Rothenberg

“I was asked for years about being a Republican, probably because most black people are Democrats. My mother heard it once and called me and said 'Charles, Republicans are for the rich people.' And I said, 'Mom, I'm rich.'”

— Charles Barkley

“The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.”

— John Tukey

“Being vintage like a fine wine
Should make you proud of being old
And being mature like a cheese
Certainly explains the mould!
Fester on undaunted into your 7th decade”

— John Walter Bratton

“I like the debate, but I don't really like the fight. I don't like being in the ring. I'm not competitive.”

— Zoe Bell

“Nothing creates more self-respect among employees than being included in the process of making decisions.”

— Judith M Bardwick

“There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.”

— David Lynch

“You got to always take advantage of getting your room cleaned. You may think it's nice not to have anybody in your room, like your privacy's not being invaded. But there's nothing like walking back into a clean room. You've got to remember that.”

— Mitch Hedberg

“College radio is a very important medium that needs to survive in difficult economic times when some stations are being sold off and shut down. College radio is the future for broadcasting stars and pioneers of tomorrow, and we as a band, Coldplay, support the vital mission of college radio and we also support College Radio Day, the day when college radio comes together.”

— Chris Martin