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• An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t.

  Anatole France

  Topics in Education, Memory

  Tags in Committed, How, Differentiate, Able, Between, Even, Much, Being, Know

• You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in – in 2007, we just didn’t know it was uncertain. It was – uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn’t know it.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Being, Know

• The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

  André Maurois

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Leaders, Lacking, Fitness, Clearly, Acknowledged, Leader, Quality, Whose, Questioned, Good, Most, Such, Being, Force, Important

• I thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family.

  Steven Adler

  Topics in Family, God

  Tags in Being, Jesus

• I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.

  Heinrich Heine

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Being, Never, Human

• The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

  Theodor W. Adorno

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Being, Human

• It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Being, Human

• There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

  Joseph Addison

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Stardom, Unhappy, Being, Idol

• Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

  Phillips Brooks

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Home, Being, Stay

• How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.

  Francois Marie Arouet

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Being, Hypocrite

• You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.

  Niels Bohr

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Being, Thinking

• The problem with beauty is that it’s like being born rich and getting poorer.

  Joan Collins

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Poorer, Getting, Rich, Problem, Being, Born

• The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

  Tony Hillerman

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Back, Being, Went

• I guess I don’t so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Guess, Fat, Being, Old

• Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.

  Al Franken

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pressure, Comedian, Communicating, Being, Obviously

• In terms of being a role model, I didn’t start out to be one. I don’t go to work every day with that in mind. But, I do get a lot of fan mail from young girls.

  Victoria Pratt

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Being, With

• I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.

  Victoria Principal

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Being, With

• Being on tour is like being in limbo. It’s like going from nowhere to nowhere.

  Bob Dylan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Singers And Singing, Being, Nowhere

• We have to scrutinize the entire abatement process to ensure the companies that are under consideration for an abatement truly need one, and I don’t believe that is being done now.

  Vincent Frank

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Being, Believe

• Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Time, Being