Been Quotes

Texas has long been known as the nation's largest energy producer, but we are equally proud of our distinction as the nation's leading energy innovator.

Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

In my circle of friends, I've always been loud and funny and talkative. But as soon as I step out of that circle, I get very quiet and introspective. I don't want the spotlight on me.

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or '79.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

I definitely have been foolish.

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

I've never been on a cruise.

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.

Everyone in life has their challenges, mine have not been financial.

Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

Certainly I'm not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I'm a sponge. I've always been a sponge.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.

Never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today.

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.