Been Quotes

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

My plan has always been to return to Broadway every 50 years.

I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it.

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.

But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.

When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn't have to act perfect all the time.

I'm a risk taker and I've always been like that, especially when it comes to fashion.

At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.

The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.

One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.

Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

I've always been a businesswoman.

I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.

Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.