Top 100 It Has Always Been Quotes
#1. When I go after something, I go after it hard. It has always been that way. I don't know. It's in my blood.
Bobby Bowden
#2. It has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre ...
Robert Harris
#3. It has always been my concern to touch people with leprosy, trying to show in a simple action that they are not reviled, nor are we repulsed.
Princess Diana
#4. In the game of cricket it has always been customary to accord more adulation to batsman than to bowlers.
Ian Peebles
#6. The power to shape Oregon's future remains where it has always been - in our collective hands.
Ted Kulongoski
#7. It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage.
Robert Dale Owen
#8. It has always been my opinion that princesses are confined in towers only because they choose to stay confined, and the only dragon required to keep them there was their own desire to be kept.
Shirley Jackson
#9. IT HAS ALWAYS been a mystery to me why so many Christians in the West struggle to live for what so many Christians in persecuted countries are willing to die for.
Johnnie Moore
#10. It has always been my custom to treat words with respect. I can recall the time ... when I knew words would be my life's work
Margaret Edson
#11. You and the spirit are no different, there is no separation. You are the spirit and the spirit is you. It has always been this way. Where there are no spirits, there are no people. This is what we must awaken in people.
G.R. Matthews
#12. Brains are still unfashionable for women to wear, and it has always been proof of women's superiority that the more intelligent a man is, the more women admire him, while the bigger fool a woman is, the more men run after her.
Dorothea Dix
#13. The great thing about Yes is that it has always been flexible.
Chris Squire
#14. It is thus because it has always been thus. Is not this reason enough?
Jack Vance
#15. I dreamt of playing in the big halls all over the world and it has always been my dream to play for people in many different countries.
Rafal Blechacz
#16. It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the public and the artificial.
Mark Twain
#17. In other periods of depression, it has always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could base hope, but as I look about, I now see nothing to give ground to hope-nothing of man.
Calvin Coolidge
#18. That's because we were never apart. Since we were kids, we were one. It has always been that way. We found a way back to each other, my love."
Luka's eyes bored into mine, a flare of possession in their glare. "And will always be that way," he said assertively. "I'm never losing you again.
Tillie Cole
#19. There are two levels of vampirism: one is the regular vampire, which is just like it has always been; and then there's the super vampires, which are a new breed we've created.
Guillermo Del Toro
#20. It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Napoleon Hill
#21. I don't totally believe that all of the politicians see a problem with the gap between the scores of black children and other groups. I believe that many politicians think this has been the way it has always been, so what's the problem?
Barry Williams
#22. It is one thing to record an album but it's a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it the way that I do. It has always been my dream to get my music out to the world and have people hear it.
Rihanna
#23. Capitalism is a social cancer. It has always been a social cancer. It is the disease of society. It is the malignancy of society.
Murray Bookchin
#24. It has always been an irony to me that the 'religious right' has come under so much attack for being involved in politics when the black community has been doing it for hundreds of years. The Reverend Jesse Jackson is rarely, if ever, attacked for his involvement in politics.
Kay Coles James
#25. I apologize because of the terrible mess the planet is in. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any 'Good Old Days,' there have just been days. And as I say to my grandchildren, 'Don't look at me. I just got here myself.'
Kurt Vonnegut
#26. Art addresses itself to the mind, and not to the eyes. It has always been considered in this way by primitive peoples, and they are right.
Jean Dubuffet
#27. Thus it has always been: Only in death do worthless people have worth.
Peter David
#28. Faith can't be forced, but unfaith can be challenged. That is how it has always been, from the very beginning, when people have borne witness to Jesus's resurrection.
N. T. Wright
#29. Content marketing needs to be at the heart of your SEO efforts. It has always been that way, but is even more so now because Google is so much more effective at understanding the context of content and how it is shared, etc.
Chris Bennett
#31. It is a good thing to let someone else's vision take over, and it has always been a good thing in the end.
Britta Phillips
#32. It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself ...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#33. We must remember that we are living in an age in which the ground is shifting and the foundations are shaking. I cannot answer for other times and places. Perhaps it has always been so. We know it is true today.
R.D. Laing
#34. The starting point for energy security today as it has always been is diversification of supplies and sources.
Daniel Yergin
#35. No problem. You are not crazier than you were yesterday. It has always been this way, and you just never noticed.
Henepola Gunaratana
#36. Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.
B.F. Skinner
#37. It has always been my conviction that Indian parents who train their children to think and talk in English from their infancy betray their children and their country. They
Mahatma Gandhi
#38. Writing is sort of putting a puzzle together halfway. Then, performing it has always been the completion of it. Once that happens, I'm feeling verbally communal with other people. It's out there and I feel so much better about it.
Brandi Carlile
#39. Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.
Nicholas Sparks
#40. Neighborliness is more than a slogan here; it is, as it has always been, an essential element of self-preservation in a challenging environment. The
Ted Koppel
#41. It has always been the role of the shaman to go into an altered state of consciousness and track down where the soul fled to in the alternate realities and return it to the body of the client.
Sandra Ingerman
#42. It has always been my goal to believe in what I do and love what I do and be true to that.
Tony Iommi
#43. For I can assure you that we love our country, not for what it was, though it has always been great - not for what it is, though of this we are deeply proud - but for what it someday can, and, through the efforts of us all, someday will be.
John F. Kennedy
#44. It has always been correct to praise Plato, but not to understand him.
Bertrand Russell
#45. It has always been the many faceless men, those foot soldiers, who have suffered most, who have died. It is they who make a nation.
F. Sionil Jose
#46. I've been in the entertainment industry since I was five and it has always been something that has been in my blood.
Stacy Keibler
#47. It has always been thought perfectly womanly to be a scrub- woman in the Legislature and to take care of the spittoons; that is entirely within the charmed circle of woman's sphere; but for women to occupy any of those official seats would be degrading.
Susan B. Anthony
#48. I think humans have always been desperate. I think it has always been about doing something awful if it might help, when the only other option is death. Maybe that's what being a parent is supposed to feel like.
Lauren DeStefano
#49. So like it or not, the question for us, as it has always been for working women, is how will we navigate the emotional mine field of love and power, career and family?
Lia Macko
#50. It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.
Havelock Ellis
#51. Well, farmers never have made money. I don't believe we can do much about it. But of course we will have to seem to be doing something; do the best we can and without much hope. The life of the farmer has its compensations but it has always been one of hardship.
Calvin Coolidge
#52. It has always been my understanding that truth and freedom can only exist in wild places.
Daniel J. Rice
#53. Space is not a scientific object removed from ideology or politics. It has always been political and strategic. There is an ideology of space. Because space, which seems homogeneous, which appears as a whole in its objectivity, in its pure form, such as we determine it, is a social product.
Henri Lefebvre
#54. It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught between two of the keys.
Isaac Asimov
#55. Every year I hear people complain that the quality of screenplays and movies is declining. In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.
Viggo Mortensen
#56. For some, perhaps for many, books are spare time. For me, the rest of life is spare time: I wake and sleep language. It has always been so.
Jeanette Winterson
#57. It has always been my contention that an individual who can be relied upon to be himself and to be honest unto himself can be relied upon in every other way.
J. Paul Getty
#58. It has always been the artist who realizes that the future is the present and uses his work to prepare the grounds for it
Marshall McLuhan
#59. Yes, this planet is in a terrible mess. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any "Good Old Days," there have just been days. And as I say to my grandchildren, "Don't look at me. I just got here.
Kurt Vonnegut
#60. The family is not only a living arrangement. It has always been a symbol of survival.
Barbara Mikulski
#61. When we talk about settling the world's problems, we're barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess. We're not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
Joseph Campbell
#62. It has always been Oscar Peterson. He is my Rachmaninoff.
Shirley Horn
#63. I have realized that for those who live in the West, freedom is so often something they take for granted. It has always been there for them. It is their unnoticed, unrecognized, constant companion and friend. But for those of us who come from countries like Sudan, freedom is wonderful and precious.
Mende Nazer
#64. Listen earnestly to anything [your children] want to tell you, no matter what. If you don't listen eagerly to the little stuff when they are little, they won't tell you the big stuff when they are big, because to them all of it has always been big stuff.
Catherine M. Wallace
#65. It came to me that Hyde Park has never belonged to London - that it has always been , in spirit, a stretch of countryside; and that it links the Londons of all periods together most magically - by remaining forever unchanged at the heart of a ever-changing town.
Dodie Smith
#66. The irony of war," he said. "It has always been this way. We are taught to think that the battle lines separate the good from the bad, but the truth, as you are beginning to understand, is less comfortable.
Jonathan Renshaw
#67. The nature of the video camera really makes you focus on the present. Since I have always been a diarist filmmaker, not one who stages scenes with actors, it has always been about the present moment.
Jonas Mekas
#69. It has always been very important to look carefully at young people and the way they wear clothes.
Brunello Cucinelli
#70. The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess. We are not going to change it.
Joseph Campbell
#71. In America it's a particular problem. The artist, particularly the poet, is just unacknowledged; if I can use that dumb word. Maybe it has always been that way. Maybe the only way he or she can be acknowledged is to be connected with some movement, be it religious or political.
Gerald Stern
#72. It has always been my dream and ambition to introduce Irish dancing to the world.
Michael Flatley
#73. I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.
Lionel Messi
#74. If history really forever repeats itself: then, it has always been then.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#75. From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
Natasha Trethewey
#76. It has always been, and still is, my intention to build a playground in Central Park.
Diana Ross
#77. None of the gods has formed the world, nor has any man, it has always been.
Empedocles
#78. It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.
Annie Dillard
#79. Getting rid of most of my personal library comported nicely with my longheld fantasy of traveling light, existing with minimal encumbrances, living simply. A fantasy it has always been, for the longr I have lived, the heavier has my equipage grown.
Joseph Epstein
#80. I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
Carlos Ghosn
#81. It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
Neil Gaiman
#82. Barcelona is a special track. I have always loved the layout of the circuit, but also the atmosphere and the fans are special. It has always been good fun.
Valentino Rossi
#83. The empire long united must divide, long divided must unite; this is how it has always been.
Luo Guanzhong
#84. It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters.
Dore Ashton
#85. There is abundant evidence that the Bible, though written by men, is not the product of the human mind. By countless multitudes it has always been revered as a communication to us from the Creator of the Universe.
John Ambrose Fleming
#86. It has always been my belief that if you don't ask the right questions, you won't get the right answers.
Reid A. Ashbaucher
#87. I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my experience as a young man.
Xavier Samuel
#88. It has always been the depth of my belief, my faith, or my love that was the mainspring of my behavior. When once I believed in doing a thing, nothing could prevent my doing it.
Margaret Sanger
#89. But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I was a teenager. Just that sense of romanticism and escapism and the dream of it has always been quite alluring to me, as well as that sense of becoming a character through clothes.
Florence Welch
#90. A dream comes from within you. It is what you were created to do, so it has always been there.
John Patrick Hickey
#91. How can I explain such a thing? I simply know it in the way I know there's an oak tree inside an acorn ... I've come to know it only this night, but it has always been the tree in the acorn.
Sue Monk Kidd
#92. Nothing weighs more heavily on age than time. Nothing has more meaning ... Now time becomes, with a kind of ruthless honesty, what it has always been: life's most precious commodity. The only difference is that, finally, we know it.
Joan D. Chittister
#93. The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#94. One's life is an act with no actor, and thus it has always been recognized that the insane man that has lost his mind is a parody of the sage who has transcended his ego. If one is paranoid, the other is metanoid.
Alan W. Watts
#95. It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary.
Arthur Balfour
#96. The four most influential moderns: Darwin, Marx, Freud, and (the productive) Einstein were scholars but not academics. It has always been hard to do genuine - and no perishable - work within institutions
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#97. Art was, seriously, the only thing I'd ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.
David Bowie
#98. In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
#99. Singing is my life. It has always been my life. It will always be my life.
Celia Cruz
#100. Music, I suppose, will be the thing that sustains me in the time of my life when I am too old for sex and not quite ready to meet God. It has always been an essential part of me.
Dolly Parton
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