If you’re having a bad day, or you’re having a bad career, go to Manila. They’ll bring your spirits up.
If you have empathy for both sides, then that’s the same as having no empathy at all.
Having a campfire and roasted marshmallows, to me that sounds like Heaven.
Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There’s nothing like having a midget for a butler.
I grew up in a house with all girls, so I’m used to having a lot of hormones around that can create craziness.
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.
When I’m having a bad day, I pick up my guitar.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you’re in control, they’re in control.
When I see people with an interesting gap year, if they can explain it, if they can justify it, if they can show what they’ve learnt from it, it’s sometimes more profitable or more intelligent than having been through a traditional, continuous race from high school to the end of university.
I have always enjoyed vampire stuff without ever having been a full vampire geek. I suppose I love the idea of blood thirst because it can say so much about us, not simply about addiction but about all those desires that can tear a family apart.
Guns are part of the American psyche, aren’t they? This is collateral damage for having a Wild West mentality. It’s intrinsic to the American psyche. It’s never going to change.
China’s one-child policy punishes families for having ‘out-of-plan’ children, resulting in sex-selective abortion and tens of millions of ‘missing girls’ as well as forced abortion and sterilization campaigns.
In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.
Perhaps it’s an accident of nationality, but the English treasure subtlety and appreciate not having everything spelled out for them, while Americans want everything made apparent.
One of the greatest things I fear is letting down my people. I wouldn’t live with that type of conscience, of having let down my people after they’ve been brutalized for so long.
Although I love this kind of comedy, sometimes I feel trapped by always having to be the most outrageous guy in the room. In particular, I’m working on trying not to be that guy in my private life.
Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition – in having put forth the best within you.
I learned early in life that you get places by having the right enemies.
I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
Having an interview in English is difficult for me, but acting in English is much harder. Because when I’m acting in English, if someone points out bad pronunciation or accent, I cannot focus on my emotions anymore, so it was very hard.
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.
I like having parties where we bring in the girls, and we have a good DJ playing good music that makes the girls dance.
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
Having power and being in a position of power can really blur your judgement, and it’s not always that clear.
If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don’t ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.
In motivating people, you’ve got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example – and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.
When I’m having fun, I’m the best in the world.
I don’t see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.
You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a ‘goddess circle’.
Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
If you’re not really having a good time, it’s not worth it.
I’m just cruising, doing me, having a good time and focusing on getting better.
It’s when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that’s the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.
Like, you think, ‘Oh, it’s ‘Star Wars,’ everybody has a spaceship’ – but no, actually, in the ‘Star Wars’ universe, having a ship is like having a yacht.
Inherently, having privilege isn’t bad, but it’s how you use it, and you have to use it in service of other people.
This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.
Sometimes I daydream about having a farm and a wife and some babies and watching the grass grow, but you have to meet the right person for that.
I finally faced the fact that it isn’t a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
I don’t mind getting older. I’m enjoying not having that raging ambition I’ve had all my life.
Having challenges in your life open doors for you.
Muse is the brain-sensing headband that allows you to track your cognitive and emotional activity. It boosts your attention and helps you become more aware of the emotions that you’re having.
We speak about understanding each other, having those conversations nationwide – culturally, historically – and yet there’s a lot of gaps. So I want to assist with closing the gap of knowing about and hearing about our Latino communities in terms of literature, in terms of writing.
Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I’m having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers.
Life is the same. It would be the same thing if I were still working at Starbucks, having to deal with a manager, and a shift manager. This is a job.
The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.
I’m concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.
There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.
Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly functionless capacity. We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any rewards or punishments in an Afterlife.
I think having a private life that you only share with your nearest and dearest is important. Otherwise, who are you?
Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
I hate the feeling of having hair on my neck.
The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor’s badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully.
Doctors are not fortune tellers, and neither am I. Having lived with disability since birth does not afford me immunity from illness.
Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
