Been Quotes

Freud taught us that it wasn't God that imposed judgment on us and made us feel guilty when we stepped out of line. Instead, it was the superego - that idealized concept of what a good person is supposed to be and do - given to us by our parents, that condemned us for what had been hitherto regarded as ungodly behavior.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

I haven't been to rehab, I don't do anything eccentric - I'm really boring.

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.

I've always been into bearded dudes.

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

I've always been ambitious since I was nine years old and that was never going to change.

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don't have any secrets. I don't know the reasons I've been so well received.

Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to.

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.

There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!

Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s.

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

There's no shame in enjoying a quiet life. And that's been the realization of the past few years for me.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine.

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from them. I thought that was fun.