#being

The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#artist #being #better #i #idea

They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions. ↗

— Ethan A. Hitchcock

#alone #away #being #carried #danger

We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way. ↗

— Erich Hoeber

#attracted #been #being #characters #circumstances

It's fun being creative and that's satisfying. ↗

— Craig Kilborn

#creative #fun #satisfying

The health care system is really designed to reward you for being unhealthy. If you are a healthy person and work hard to be healthy, there are no benefits. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

#benefits #care #designed #hard #health

I still can't believe I won the Olympics. That's what I feel right now - completely alive as a human being. It's a really beautiful moment. ↗

— Clara Hughes

#beautiful #being #believe #completely #feel

I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves. ↗

— J. A. Jance

#about #also #assured #become #being

Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#being #consciousness #depends #encountering #everything

Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it. ↗

— Jewel

#completely #ever #goodness #innocence #just

People always expect you to be jumping out of a Rolls Royce and being in the papers for drunk and disorderly or sleeping around. ↗

— Davy Jones

#around #being #disorderly #drunk #expect