Has Beens Quotes

Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

I have been here before in my head. To everyone else, it is my first Olympics. To me, it's my thousandth.

How many things... are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?

Unless I have been sorely misinformed, supermodels are powerless to resist a man with illuminated doorsills.

Since God has been pleased to give us the Papacy, let us enjoy it.

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

Every tool carries with it the spirit by which it has been created.

Lucky to have been where I have been

I personally think that money can do very little. And this has been my experience all across.

The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life

Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway.

A picture has been said to be something between a thing and a thought.

In reality, if he had lived, I would have had a dad. And that would have been an incredible experience.

Who can deny that the environment has been destroyed?

Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage.

Every seam, every lace, every bead has been painstakingly, with love, corrected, perfected and mastered.

I don't think you ever learn just one thing. At some point you start unlearning things. I have been working hard to unlearn everything I know.

Women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful.

We know it matters not what we have been but this and always this: what we shall be.

It is good for me that I have been afflicted.

Most women who have done something with their lives have been disliked by almost everyone.

Being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression, otherwise I would have been free to be so much more.

Come what may, I have been blest.

There are no woman composers, never have been and possibly never will be.

Remember, it's better to be a has-been than a never-been.

Those who are most conscious of forgiveness are invariably those who have been most acutely convicted of their sin.

I have been a stranger in a foreign land.

Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.

History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.

The last few years have been pretty hectic.

Capitalism itself is not to be condemned. And surely it is not vicious of its very nature, but it has been vitiated.

It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced.

Consider God's charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him?

My whole life has been decided by fate.

I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life will have been worth nothing.

Finally, everything that has been part of my life, whether I wanted it to or not, has expressed itself in my dresses.

I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.

I do admit there have been times when I have made a statement that was incorrect.

I was the Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade, but Jane Roe has been laid to rest.

I have been criticized and ridiculed for turning to astrology, but after a while, I reached the point where I didn't care.

Knowledge is understanding based on what has been studied and learned. Wisdom is understanding based on what has been felt and experienced.

Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been.

I'm no liar. I could have been wrong, but I ended up not being [wrong]. But I'm no liar.

He has been disassembled by her. And if she has brought him to this, what has he brought her to?

I am not a high-tech techie, but I have been told that is not possible.

It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology.

What happened to you could have been worse - it could have happened to me.

The weddings that I've been in have been pretty mellow.