Been Quotes

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been.

Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.

He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle.

If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.

For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.

Dance as though no one is watching. Love as though you've never been hurt. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.

The chaotic situation in Libya is definitely creating a threat. Libya now connects the jihadists in Africa with those in the Middle East and in Afghanistan. This could have been avoided.

There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been.

I've gone through so much in my life. I should have been dead a long time ago, but I am still here, and I'm the happiest I've ever been.

The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.

But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean?

I'm just some irritating, lying, ginger kid from Cornwall who should have been locked up in some youth detention centre. I just managed to escape and blag it into music.

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

We get ready for death by beginning to live life as we should have been living it all along.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.

It was not a friendly game, and Jerry certainly did not have friendliness in his eyes. He had an extra mean streak that day. He was out of control and probably should have been ejected.

You really can't worry about stuff you can't control... You need to focus on getting where you need to be and not worry about what could have been and what should have been.

It's of no use to look back and say, "I should have been different." At any given moment, we are the way we are, and we see what we're able to see. For that reason, guilt is always inappropriate.

Make love like you have no secrets like you've never been left never been hurt like the world don't owe you a single wretched thing.

I've been in love with audiences all my life, and I've tried to please. I hope I did.

We might have been better off if the question of Obama's patriotism had been raised before he was first elected. Never should we ignore so many red flag warnings again.

I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.

You do what you do and you pay for your sins and there's no such thing as what might have been.

A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

You are nobody, and I might have been somebody, and the road to each of us is love.

Tired faith all worn and thin, for all we could have done, and all that could have been.

It could have been worse. I could have been born black.

Never's just the echo of forever, lonesome as a love that might have been. Let me go on lovin' and believin' 'til it's over. Please don't tell me how the story ends.

If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma.

If all the people who have been hurt by the war were to exclude joy from their lives, it would almost be as if they had died.

Flying the Feathered Edge captures my life story in an authentic and accurate way. I don't know how it could have been done any better.

Sometimes you have to look into a mirror and look at the worst you could have been if you're ever going to know the best you were meant to be.

Doctor, do you think it could have been the sausage?

Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.

However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.

I've never been in love with fashion, actually; trends and catwalks don't interest me. I love clothes; I love them historically and currently. They represent a spirit of the times and the zeitgeist.

A sold-out house my first night back. Do you have any idea what kinda pressure that is? I could have been at home in my warm bed, playing Nintendo.

To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree

It is never too late to be who you might have been. It is always possible

We all dream about love, want to be in love, and have been hurt by love.

Work like you don't need money, Love like you've never been hurt, And dance like no one's watching. Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made

But I know that I'm not who I was supposed to be. Who I could have been. And I know it's because I was too afraid for too long.

To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have.

Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints.

If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music.