Quotes on Has Beens

No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.

A lot of prizes have been awarded for showing the universe is not as simple as we might have thought.

All of my life, I have been fascinated by the big questions that face us, and have tried to find scientific answers to them. If, like me, you have looked at the stars, and tried to make sense of what you see, you too have started to wonder what makes the universe exist.

The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

A man who has been in danger,_x000D_ _x000D_ When he comes out of it forgets his fears,_x000D_ _x000D_ And sometimes he forgets his promises.

To me spirituality needs an honest individuality. It does not allow any kind of dependence. It creates a freedom for itself, whatever the cost. It is never in the crowd but alone, because the crowd has never found any truth. The truth has been found only in people's aloneness.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

People assume when they come into a church and see a person up there speaking, 'That person must be a good person.' My challenge through the years has been believing that: 'I guess I must be a really good person.' I struggle with it. It just helps me to keep that confessional posture.

Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

The secret is the answer to all that has been, all that is, and all that will ever be.

Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.

I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.

It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.

I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things. As far as I can conjecture the art consists in habitually searching for the causes and meaning of everything which occurs.

Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances.

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them. To deny it, however, in this case, is to deny that there is a God governing the world. It is a truth which I thought needed to be told; and as whatever of humilation there is in it, falls most directly on myself, I thought others might afford for me to tell it.