Has Beens Quotes

Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.

As soon as you have a problem, it's insoluble. These things should never have been allowed to happen.

Music has been in our family for generations.

My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.

The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba.

My feelings about myself have been terrible.

A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of "balance" and "deterrence".

Wicca has been, up until the past decade or so, a closed religion, but no more.

Iran is nothing but trouble, and always has been that.

Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke.

To be prejudiced is always to be weak; yet there are prejudices so near to laudable that they have been often praised and are always pardoned.

Materials are very important to me, and always have been.

I have been so fortunate and I really am appreciative of the success I've had.

I am his, and he is mine, and it has been that way all along.

I have tipped waiters, and I have been tipped by waiters.

I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.

If I could do one thing over I'd have been nicer to my parents.

His statement to himself should have been, 'I possess this now, therefore I am happy', instead of what it so Victorianly was: "I cannot possess this for ever, and therefore am sad."

Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made.

Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed.

Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid of anything. Whatever you have been, you are mine now. I can hold you.

I am a Democrat. I have been one all of my life.

I have to admit: I have been known to be obsessively neat and like things arranged just so.

I make a hundred mistakes a day. I am, and have been, and will continue to be, wrong about almost everything.

Creativity is not and never has been sensible.

Often, the things that a lot of work has gone into have been incredibly bad because they're over-worked.

If anyone could have gained heaven as a monk, then I would indeed have been among them.

I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.

That which we have lived is nothing; that which we live is a point; that which we have to live is not yet a point, but may be a point which, together, shall be and shall have been.

Aging has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

My life really has been one long extravaganza.

This will be triumph! This will be happiness! Yea, that very thing, happiness, which I have been pursuing all my life, and have never yet overtaken.

Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

What a Beethoven, Shakespeare or Picasso has done is not create something, so much as they have accessed that place within themselves from which they could express that which has been created by God.

No matter how many times something has been observed, it cannot be believed until it has been observed again.

It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came.

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Quand notre coeur a fait une fois sa vendange, Vivre est un mal. Once our heart has been harvested once, Life becomes miserable.

I have been fighting over commas all my life.

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

We cannot lead anyone farther than we have been ourselves.

I love producing. I have been producing some acts and starting a label.

An awful lot has been written about my temper.

Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary.

Its better to be second while everyone is saying You should have been first than be first when everyone says You should be second.

My whole life has been about changing negatives into positives.

My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.

Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?