Been Quotes

I've been criticized for the things I chose and things I've chosen to do.

I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.

I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it.

There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

Working in this industry, I have been exposed to so many products and now realize more than ever how cruel and unnecessary animal testing is.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won't believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq, have learnt lessons.

People love the idea of a good girl gone bad, thinking that my parents were so strict and disowned me, but that actually wasn't the case. Even though they don't necessarily agree with some of the things I do, they love me as their daughter. That's always been their perspective.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.

For 70 nights, right across America, I've been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we've been playing songs which are so specific about each of us, you just wouldn't know. We're friends now but we can't forget what happened between us.

If I had been under ObamaCare, and a beaurocrat had been trying to tell me when I could get that CT scan, that would have delayed my treatment. I was able to get the treatment as fast as I could based upon my timetable, and not the government's timetable. That's what saved my life.

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.