Been Quotes

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

Once you have done with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five.

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.

I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.

Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.

So Indian policy has become institutionalized and the result has been that American people have become more dependent on government and that the American people have become more dependent on corporations.

In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being.

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.

I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.

I want to talk to the bullied kids of the world. Tell them to hang on, it will get better. Know that an 'Iron Chef,' actors, musicians, artists and all successful people have probably been bullied in their life. And the best part of your life is yet to come. Whatever it takes to live, do it!

Women's issues have always been a part of my life.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

I've always been someone who feels better, if I see what I'm going through in a movie.

I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.

And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others.

Hopefully my fan base doesn't lock me into 'Twilight,' you lose yourself. You should do things for you, and I have been really lucky to have things that really rock me and really move me falling into my lap.

I have a lot of amazing women, you know, women in my life who have been an example for me of what not to do.

My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.

We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.