Been Quotes

I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm standing on grass, and it's raining, and I'm with the person I love, and I know I'm at the very point I've been dreaming of getting to.

I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn't been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail.

I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

I've never been on a cruise.

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.

Everyone in life has their challenges, mine have not been financial.

Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

Certainly I'm not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I'm a sponge. I've always been a sponge.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.

Never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today.

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

There have been people I've warmed to over the years but, as the situation I'm in is so fleeting and transient, I've always known it's going to be over kind of real quick.