#being

Being a runner means you are now "free" to win and lose and live life to its fullest. ↗

— Bill Rodgers

#free #fullest #life #live #live life

In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness. ↗

— Carl Rogers

#being #distorted #each #experience #freely

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse. ↗

— Valentino Rossi

#being famous #driving #famous #far #ferrari

I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

#around #being #dreamt #editors #finished

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

— Arnold Rothstein

#away #being #being alone #go #go away

Somehow, I had the feeling that I was responsible for Harry being dead. I remembered all the times that I wished he were dead, all the times I had dreamed of killing him. I got to thinking that maybe my wishing had finally killed him. ↗

— Arnold Rothstein

#dead #dreamed #feeling #finally #got

I went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#assume #attitude #australia #because #been

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#being #beneath #buried #common #dust

Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself. ↗

— Oscar de la Renta

#according #being #being yourself #dressing #fashion

I am very aware of being black and female because that's what I am. ↗

— Susan Rice

#aware #because #being #black #female