Been Quotes

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

I like basketball, and I've been to three games, which is so much more fun than seeing it on TV, I think.

There's a big difference, as I'm sure you know, it's a slightly manneristic one, between people of the '60s and people of '68. Being a soixante-huitard - it's so nice to have a French word for it - is very different from just having happened to been a baby boomer in the '60s.

Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

I've always been the type to fall in love fast and, with every boyfriend, I plan out my wedding in my head.

I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.

For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.

There hasn't been anybody whose life has been picked apart and distorted as much as mine.

I had been working for eight years and all I had to show for it was this horrible debt. At one point we had the bailiff at the door.

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

I've been heartbroken. I've broken hearts. That's part of life, and its part of figuring out who you are so you can find the right partner.

I've been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

Businesswise, everything's been good.

I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.

I have a good brain on me, but I've never really used it when it came to making decisions about love, which has been a blessing and a curse.

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.