Been Quotes

I've been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through.

You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.

I never have been insecure, because I see what a waste it is. I know there is a solution to insecurity. I don't tend to be thrown by problems that don't have solutions. And insecurity has a wealth of alternatives.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

I've always been under the impression that it would be such a bummer to be in a peaceful place like Hawaii or the tropics and be stressed about catching waves.

One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites.

There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.

We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there.

Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?"

I can look back on my life, where there have been moments where things might have gone the other way. Everything is like stepping stones, and I've seen people I admire falter. We're all vulnerable.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.