Been Quotes

As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

My first choice had always been my father. He's still my first pick. Now that the nominating process is over, tonight, I'm happy to announce that I'm going to be supporting Governor Romney.

We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.

I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

I've been playing squash almost daily for 38 years.

Under Barack Obama, the only 'Change' is that 'Hope' has been hard to find. Now millions of Americans are insecure about their future. But instead of inspiring us by reminding us of what makes us special, he divides us against each other. He tells Americans they're worse off because others are better off. That people got rich by making others poor.

Three years ago, this week, a newly elected President Obama faced the American people and he said, look, if I can't turn this economy around in three years, I'll be looking at a one-term proposition, and we're here to collect! You know the results. It's been 35 months of unemployment above 8 percent.

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.

My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

Well, I've been a Republican for all of my voting life.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

Rap in general has never been my steez, but I like it.

In the end we're all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.

I've been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies.

I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.