Been Quotes

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

I didn't find Jesus. He's been there the whole time.

I think it's pretty crazy to say you've been typecast at the age of 20 before you've even really started getting going.

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.

I've had an unbelievable life. I've been very lucky. You do create your own luck too, you know? I never forget where I'm from. Whenever I pass a building site or see somebody digging a ditch, I always think, 'That's real work.'

I have always been afraid of banks.

This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

What we want to do is make a leapfrog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been, and super-easy to use. This is what iPhone is. OK? So, we're going to reinvent the phone.

Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.

Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.

There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise.

Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.

I'm lucky to have been able to represent different companies over my career.

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

I've been eating tons of organic foods, staying away from processed sugars, white flours, and anything artificial. It's the same as my normal regime, but I'm being even stricter, because everything I put into my body is literally building this precious baby inside me.

My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them.

Egypt has been a partner of the United States over the last 30 years, has been instrumental in keeping the peace in the Middle East between Egypt and Israel, which is a critical accomplishment that has meant so much to so many people.

I've been all over the world. I love New York, I love Paris, San Francisco, so many places. But there's no place like New Orleans. It's got the best food. It's got the best music. It's got the best people. It's got the most fun stuff to do.