Been Quotes

I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.

I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.

Success has always been a great liar.

As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.

I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.

The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.

The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard.

It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.'

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.

It's been a great privilege to serve the people of Pennsylvania.

Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God.

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities, our families, our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America, America. In our best days, we can feel the vibrancy of America's communities, large and small.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.