Been Quotes

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.

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.

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.

A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

Nobody's told me anything to date that I've been completely reviled by.

Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.

I've been around golf my whole life. My father did it all the time, and I resented him for it. But a couple years ago I picked up a golf club and I understood the physics of it. If anyone knows anything about golf, it's that once you hit a few shots, you'll become addicted.

Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.