Been Quotes

I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

I've actually never been taken on a date in my whole life.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.

I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born. Straight up.

People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe.

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.

There's no shame in enjoying a quiet life. And that's been the realization of the past few years for me.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine.

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from them. I thought that was fun.

I don't think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate effort - again, referring to Fox Broadcasting - to inject the race issue into it. They have actually called Obama a racist on television.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted.

I really feel free and not as serious as I have been in the past.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

I feel like I've been lucky, because I don't feel like I've ever tried to be somebody I'm not. People might disagree.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you're looking so hot.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.