Been Quotes

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

There's no shame in enjoying a quiet life. And that's been the realization of the past few years for me.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine.

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from them. I thought that was fun.

I don't think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate effort - again, referring to Fox Broadcasting - to inject the race issue into it. They have actually called Obama a racist on television.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted.

I really feel free and not as serious as I have been in the past.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

I feel like I've been lucky, because I don't feel like I've ever tried to be somebody I'm not. People might disagree.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you're looking so hot.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.

I actually feel I've been unbelievably lucky in love.

She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

"Indian policy" has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

Few men have been admired of their familiars.

As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.

I used to joke I was a point-and-click actor. My whole process has been about trusting your instincts and hitting your mark.

I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself. When I'm serene, when I'm a good person, when I've been considerate of others.

Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.