Been Quotes

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.

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

I have been a Republican since 1966.

We've never been people that go around and confront people that have been financially successful and say, 'We hate you. We envy you because of how well you're doing.'

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.

Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces.

Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.

When at last we are sure, You've been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled. So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed.

I'm happy to tell you that having been through surgery and chemotherapy and radiation, breast cancer is officially behind me. I feel absolutely great and I am raring to go.

The America we all know has been a story of the many becoming one, uniting to preserve liberty, uniting to build the greatest economy in the world, uniting to save the world from unspeakable darkness.

I defy anyone to produce any evidence that the word 'happy' has ever crossed my lips. I am not now, nor have I ever been, 'happy.'

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.

I've been a customer of the top venture capital firms, so I know exactly what they do and don't do.

In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.