I've been taking lessons in Damehood from Judi Dench. Being a Dame is useful in restaurants, hotels, and restaurants, Judi says, but you have to get someone else to do the booking.
Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous who denies the existence of a Jewish nation.
Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.
I'm on record as being understood to be a supporter of a reformed establishment, in which other Christian denominations, and other faiths, play a major part.
The smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for so the powers of gravity on their several surfaces come nearer to equality. They are likewise, other things being equal, of the greater density, as they are nearer to the sun.
I think ballet has a bad reputation of being stuffy and depleted.
Jesse Watters is just a deplorable human being. I have no respect for him whatsoever.
I think the most rewarding thing is going over and being deployed and having done meaningful things.
In 2010, I was an executive officer in the Navy, splitting my time between U.S. headquarters and being deployed to an international location.
The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's second largest oil producer.
To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
I go from being hugely hopeful and entertaining to... really not. I'm not manic depressive, but I can really go to the darker side.
Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth.
My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
When I was first named as Deputy Prime Minister, there was a feeling of shock that I should be chosen because I was labeled as being an ultra and very anti-Chinese.
America under Trump has gone from being a world leader to an object of derision.
When I was younger, I did a TV show in the U.K. for a couple years, and I learned a lot from that. It taught me a lot about being known amongst your peers and having to deal with a lot of derision from them.
Gov. Huckabee seems like somebody who could run effectively against a female candidate and not make it seem like he's being derogatory and impolite.
If anything is life-changing, being the descendant of a slave is.
Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.