Top 1200 Being Adopted Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

Often vastly more important, international agreements are not routinely published in draft form or publicly debated, and civil society organizations and ordinary citizens often learn of important global institutional design decisions only after they have already been finalized and adopted. The only reliable way to be kept informed and to exert timely influence is by lobbying and paying the politicians and their negotiators.

As a late teenager, the punk movement pushed me further. In particular, the Clash, which happened to leak through the time of disco, showed me that there was this cross-cultural sound that could cut across genres and audiences. Like punk was to disco, rap music was a rebellion against R&B, which had adopted disco and made it worse.

I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained.

I have gained so much more from my experiences of being open and loving humanity rather than being jaded and being closed-off.

An adopted son shall never take the family, name and the estate of his natural father, the funeral cake follows the family, name and the estate, the funeral offerings of him who gives ,his son in adoption cease, as far as that son is concerned.

One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.

When I think of my version of a role model, it's not about being the perfect Samaritan; it's just being out there and being honest and happily imperfect.

So being a senior player, being a goalkeeper, being a team member, I think saving the ball is my first main priority.

The essence of Vedanta is that there is but one Being and that every soul is that Being in full, not a part of that Being.

Being good, being talented, and being young is something, you know, that I had and have.

There's a tremendous amount to be gained from being a performer, and being an artist, and being an actor.

My experience in relation to taking on the preachers of hate was saying to them it's compatible being British, being Western, being Muslim.

It's just a natural part of being a social creature and being a human being.

By an individual being, whatever one's metaphysical doctrine, one means an unique being, that is, a being which is alone of its own type, or is such that no other of its class exists.

You know what takes effort? Being kind. Being patient. Being respectful.

It took a while for me to figure out how it all fit in, being a mother and being a woman and being a rock singer.

In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.

Being a champion is not just being a frontrunner and being ahead, but it's facing adversity.

I've got used to being on 'The Chase' and keeping nice and calm and that feels like comfort now compared to being in the spotlight and being on stage.

Happiness is attained by three things: being patient when tested, being thankful when receiving a blessing, and being repentant upon sinning.

To me, being a woman in 2016 means having a voice, being unique, being true to yourself, and finding a way to be of service.

Waiting is one of life's hardships. It is hard enough to wait for chocolate cream pie while burnt roast beef is still on your plate. It is plenty difficult to wait for Halloween when the tedious month of September is still ahead of you. But to wait for one's adopted uncle to come home while a greedy and violent man is upstairs was one of the worst waits the Baudelaires had ever experienced.

The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful. And being generous. Everything else is crap!

When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.

I think it's interesting that the opposite of being active in yoga is not being passive. It's being receptive.

Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.

For me it was just about staying the course, staying true to who I believe that I am, being open, being honest, being transparent with the players, being firm with the players but at the same time listening to the players.

Since I was a schoolboy, I've been used to being recognized on the road by old and young, and being bantered with and, indeed, being taunted.

I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.

I'm now becoming a bit more cognizant of what's going on and the responsibility of being a public figure and also being white and being in Hip-Hop.

[On his heroin addiction:] I did it to myself. It wasn't society...it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

I was very excited to hone in on John Goodman. Casting John first really set the tone. He's very good at being terrifying and being hilarious, and I loved the idea of that character not being merely 'moustache-twirly'. I enjoyed being scared by him.

I'm forever in the 'limelight' being Da Brat, being an entertainer, being a star.

I know that being in the entertainment business... my first son, I had to sacrifice being away, being on tour a lot and I wasn't really present.

My past was always there. And I always understood that I was adopted. It wasn't like a massive issue to me. But identity was an issue. I knew that I was Indian, but I didn't really know much about myself, really. I mean, I really disassociated myself from what happened in the past to present. But, it was affecting in regards to identity.

It's a natural blessing. Thanks to God. He gave me this ability of being chubby but still being fast and being able to hit hard.

Being wild can be wearing a silly hat. Being wild can be dancing weird. Being wild can be shooting people. What do I think being wild is? Nothing. Actually, the whole world is wild. Everything is wild.

Being FEARLESS isn't being 100% Not FEARFUL, it's being terrified but you jump anyway.

I really wanted to be a model when I was little. I loved photography, and I loved being on camera. But I was short and chubby, so I couldn't. Anyway, being an artist is way more interesting than just being a model because it's about you and what you want to be. You're not being treated like a clothes hanger.

Being there for my son, being there for my wife, just being a better man. That's all I know.

I found I was being pushed to one side and I was being ear-marked as being thick, which is a very damaging thing to be told as a young kid.

Style begins with the people passing through one’s life, the harbingers we push against and the stylemakers we want to clone. Some are famous, some not. Style grows from admiration, from longing, from discrimination—and, yes, from love. It’s all the places you’ve been to and the people and the moments you’ve known: the parts you’ve adopted, to keep forever, and transformed. We wear our history in our hearts and on our backs.

The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.

I realized that there's this fine line between being personal and being general and being alienating.

I got songs about being broke, being on welfare, being poor, Section 8.

Being a rapper is about being cool, but being a comedian, you're not supposed to be the coolest guy.

The human being is not a fallen being in need of redemption but rather a forgetful being who must be reminded of God and his own nature.

Being a fan doesn't mean being there from the start... It means being there till the end.

I'm not saying that I've cheated, being in an intense love with somebody while also feeling the pulls of being a young man, especially being an object of attention.

I went from being a guy who was sparingly being used on television to being the World Heavyweight Champion and the focus of a lot of the storylines on Smackdown.

The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.

I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.

Being an Orlando Magic dancer was definitely one of the most exciting times of my life. Being on the team was really like being in a sisterhood.

Being comedic is a skill, because there is a fine line where the context is important. And being dramatic is just being honest and real in that moment.

Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half as good as being a domestic cat.

As a jealous man, I suffer four times over: because I am jealous, because I blame myself for being so, because I fear that my jealousy will wound the other, because I allow myself to be subject to a banality: I suffer from being excluded, from being aggressive, from being crazy, and from being common.

The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else is crap.

I've lived my whole life exactly the way I've wanted to. Being gay, being white, being male, it doesn't matter to me. They're all things I'm born with.

French Kiss - A Love Letter to Paris, is a tribute to many of the wonderful moments of romance, beauty, hope, and love that I have witnessed and been inspired by in Paris, my adopted home, over the past 40 years. I believe that photography is ultimately about sharing. I am excited to share, with the world, these moments of the heart that have touched my own, in this most beautiful city, Paris

Conservationists have, I fear, adopted the pedagogical method of the prophets: we mutter darkly about impending doom if people don't mend their ways. The doom is impending, all right; no one can be an ecologist, even an amateur one, without seeing it. But do people mend their ways for fear of calamity? I doubt it. They are more likely to do it out of pure curiosity and interest.