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Been Quotes by Jonathan Raban
- The city has always been an embodiment of hope and a source of feeling guilt; a dream pursued, and found vain, wanting, and destructive.
- One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We…
- There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason for doing anything.…
- It's been so long since a talented writer last occupied the White House; no wonder, then, that American writers have been among the most prominent…
- Every White House has had its intellectuals, but very few presidents have been intellectuals themselves - Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Woodrow Wilson, the list more…
- The only nation I've ever been tempted to feel really racist about are the Swiss - a whole country of phobic hand washers living in…
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