#being

Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#being #bringing #building #courses #enjoy

I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer. ↗

— Stevie Nicks

#being #children #conscious #conscious decision #decision

I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing. ↗

— Stevie Nicks

#because #behind #being #big #down

Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was. ↗

— Stevie Nicks

#back #being #everything #i #i always

Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman; you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation. ↗

— Brigitte Nielsen

#baby #become #before #being #best

I was shooting a bikini promotion in Mahe in the Seychelles in 1980 when there was a military coup and I, along with a roomful of other people, ended up being kidnapped and held hostage at gunpoint in a windowless room with no ventilation for 36 hours. ↗

— Brigitte Nielsen

#being #bikini #coup #ended #held

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#blame #causes #completely #conscience #exposed

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#being #honey #insects #knowledge #lies

Iran is a major threat to the well-being of Europe and America just as much as it is for the state of Israel. ↗

— Ehud Olmert

#europe #iran #israel #just #major

A saint is a person who gives of themself without asking for anything in return. That's how simple it is to be a saint. Try it! Try being a saint. ↗

— Edward James Olmos

#asking #being #gives #how #person