Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.
Thomas Merton

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.
Thomas Merton

I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.
Clint Eastwood

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
Salvador Dali

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
Salvador Dali

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
Blaise Pascal

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
Plutarch

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Blaise Pascal

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
Blaise Pascal

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
Blaise Pascal

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
Blaise Pascal

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
John Locke

Police in Washington D.C. are now using cameras to catch drivers who go through red lights. Many congressmen this week opposed the use of the red light cameras incorrectly assuming they were being used for surveillance at local brothels.
Dennis Miller

There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it.
Dennis Miller

There's been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that's simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we've won when I score 10.
Kobe Bryant

I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.
Woody Allen

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.
Woody Allen

I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.
Woody Allen

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
Oliver Wendell Holmes