Has Beens Quotes - Page 22

Where you have been is not nearly as important as where you are and where you're going.

Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.

I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.

Let the ancient serve the present, let the foreign serve the national; by developing that which has been accomplished one creates something that is new.

If it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian.

Anything I've ever read by John Irving has been really well written.

If God had looked into our minds he would not have been able to see there whom we were speaking of.

And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.

Traditions have been replaced by lifestyles.

I would rather have been beaten up in the media than live a life that wasn't happy.

Why is it when you yield, I feel like the one who has been conquered?

Politics, glamor, fame - they're all mixed up together, and they always have been.

I'm not a people person. I'm not sociable. I have been and I can be, but not as a general rule.

I have been to the speed of God, sir...and I discommend it.

Love! Beyond measure — beyond death — it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it.

The guiding principle of this Nation has been, is now, and ever shall be IN GOD WE TRUST.

I have been in danger of being drowned twice.

No new photographs until all the old ones have been used up.

Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been.

If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

But now the shots began—not many, but one shot is a fusillade if there have been no shots before.

Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.

A man who has been an animal has infinitely more knowledge of that animal than a man who has merely dissected one.

A good name is what is given you by others and that which has been earned by you.

Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.