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Been Quotes by Cormac McCarthy
- All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just…
- When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end. You can…
- You can tell it any way you want but that's the way it is. I should of done it and I didn’t. And some part…
- A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect…
- For me the world has always been more of a puppet show. But when one looks behind the curtain and traces the strings upward he…
- Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been. His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again…
- Only that man who has offered up himself entire to the blood of war, who has been to the floor of the pit and seen…
- In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been,…
- They rode like men invested with a purpose whose origins were antecedent to them, like blood legatees of an order both imperative and remote. For…
- There was someone there and they had been there. There was no one there. There was someone there and they had been there and they…
- In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless…
- Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered or made suspect by what he'd seen of…
- Rage is really only for the good days. The truth is there's little of that left. the truth is that the forms I see have…
More Been Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle