Been Quotes

Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Vampires have always held a very seductive kind of lore and have always been some variety of attractive, whether it's attractiveness that's born of just the physical attributes that they have - this kind of ethereal beauty or translucent pallor - or whether it is more to do with the way they carry themselves.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

I've been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have.

Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.

I think we're in a disposable world and 'Stairway to Heaven' is one of the things that hasn't quite been thrown away yet.

I pinch myself because of the understanding that I've been blessed with a real rare opportunity that few Americans ever get - to serve their government and their people at this level.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.

This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.

It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.

In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

I've been running a lot, taking care of myself.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed.

My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

I'm doing 'Les Miserables,' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like, 'Come on, let's do a movie/musical.'

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

Even though I've been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can't get a record on daytime radio or on MTV.

My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.