Been Quotes

Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

Certainly I'm not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I'm a sponge. I've always been a sponge.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.

Never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today.

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

There have been people I've warmed to over the years but, as the situation I'm in is so fleeting and transient, I've always known it's going to be over kind of real quick.

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

I have been a Republican since 1966.

We've never been people that go around and confront people that have been financially successful and say, 'We hate you. We envy you because of how well you're doing.'

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.

Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces.

Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.