Been Quotes

I've been a gamer all my life.

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

There are stereotypes that have been out there for a long time that tell girls that their main asset, the main thing that they are valued for, is their appearance and also that it's to the exclusion of anything else.

When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys.

I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.

I mean, you know, you're looking at a guy who has a manager, who's created a life for me that - I mean, I don't pay phone bills and electric bills. I have somebody to do that for me. I've been very, very lucky. And I live in this insular sort of world, you know, so everything's, you know, everything's got a silver lining as far as I'm concerned.

For many my behavior has been a major disappointment, my behavior has caused considerable worry to my business partners, and everyone involved in my business, but most importantly to the young people we influence, I apologize.

The transition was difficult. It's hard to stop something that you've enjoyed and that has been very rewarding.

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.

The promise of America has always been that if you worked hard, had the right values, took some risks, that there was an opportunity to build a better life for your family and for your next generation.

The truth is my love life has been a lot more turbulent than I have let on.

A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be assured you will get your principal back (assuming no default), a fund has no finite maturity date and most funds are actively traded.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.

I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.

Success has always been a great liar.

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.