Been Quotes

As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.

I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.

The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard.

It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.'

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.

It's been a great privilege to serve the people of Pennsylvania.

Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.'

God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.

As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.