Things are going very smoothly. As expected, there are some minor glitches, and the eight minutes that it took us to get to orbit, we trained months and months for, and didn't have to use any of that preparation, other than being aware and ready. - Laurel Clark
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us. - Jane Austen
It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive. - Victoria Principal
Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so. - Samuel Butler
But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House. - Sidney Blumenthal
Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11. - Richard Ben Veniste
If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar. - John Henry Newman
As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward. - Augusten Burroughs
In fact, quantitative findings of any material and energy changes preserve their full context only through their being seen and understood as parts of a natural order. - Walter Rudolf Hess
Let me respond with a few points, the first being that all immigrants pay taxes, income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, gasoline taxes, cigarette taxes, every tax when they make a purchase. - Luis Gutierrez
I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown. - Jennifer Lopez
It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them. - Randy Harrison
In the case of the armies at Fredericksburg it would have been, to say the least, very hazardous to give counter-attack, the Federal position being about as strong as ours from which we had driven them back. - James Longstreet
There was the joke about Switzerland being an island surrounded by land. This was never true. - Samuel Schmid
Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week. - David Steinberg
Not that I have any interest in saying goodbye to Rocky. I absolutely adore being involved and a part of something that is really a phenomenon. - Richard O'Brien
Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not. - James Taylor
No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations. - Theodore Bikel
Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been. - Paris Hilton
I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door. - Paul Muldoon
So after being with somebody for any number of days like that, you can't help but feel for them. You can't help them, but you certainly can root for them. - Wink Martindale