Quotes on Has Beens

One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of your parents might have been: If you perform the same experiment that someone else did, at a different time and place, you'll get the same result.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

What commercialism has brought to Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, and from their love of quiet. For almost always they have been brought to this retirement by their insufficiency and against their will.

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.

You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.

Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally.

But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.

I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.

The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.

I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.

I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

That wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free.

When you start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' you have been in office too long.