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Been Quotes by Jim Butcher
- The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transformation. After all that I'd been…
- Me and polite have never been on close terms.
- Have you ever felt despair? Absolute hopelessness? Have you ever stood in the darkness and known, deep in your heart, in your spirit, that it…
- Many women have earned titles, Your Grace. It doesn't seem to have been a factor in whether or not they actually received them.
- I'd been in hairier situations than this one. Actually, it's sort of depressing, thinking how many times I'd been in them. But if experience had…
- Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been.
- How long have you been a Wiccan?' 'A what?' 'A pagan. A witch.' 'I'm not a witch,' I said, glancing out the door. 'I'm a…
- Lady Placida smiled. “History seldom takes note of serendipity when it records events. And from what I have heard, I suspect an argument could be…
- ... They paid some madman who thought he was a decorator a lot of money to make the place look hip and unique. May be…
- The past was gone. Nothing could change what had already been. Looking back at it, letting its wounds fester, indulging in regret was just a…
- I checked the icebox. The faeries usually brought some sort of food to stock the icebox and the pantry when they cleaned, but they could…
- Science, the largest religion of the twentieth century, had become tarnished by images of exploding space shuttles, crack babies, and a generation of complacent Americans…
- It bothered me that he was right. Without Sir Stuart's intervention, I'd have been dead again already. That's right--you heard me: dead again already. I…
- Have you ever been approached by a grim-looking man, carrying a naked sword with a blade about ten miles long in his hand, in the…
- You must be Warden Ramirez." This is the part where I got nervous. Ramirez loved women. Ramirez never shut up about women. Well, he never…
- I grunted. It's something I picked up over a fifteen-year career in law enforcement. Men have managed to create a complex and utterly impenetrable secret…
- I found him in a Dumpster one day when he was a kitten and he promptly adopted me. Despite my struggles, Mister had been an…
- Where is your unit?" Murphy asked. I wiggled my eyebrows at her. "Right where it's always been, dollface.
- Her flawless pale skin was also spangled with gemstones. I don't know how they'd been attached, but they clung to her and sent little flashes…
- Mab turned back to me and eyed me up and down. She quirked one eyebrow, very slightly, somehow conveying layers of disapproval toward multiple aspects…
- I've been a young man. Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young men's…
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
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour