Been Quotes
Been Quote of the day
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.
If you have never been hurt by a word from God, it is probably that you have never heard God speak.
We are all broken by something. We have all hurt someone and have been hurt. We all share the condition of brokenness even if our brokenness is not equivalent.
This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.
The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.
I was too worried about the grades and I should have been more worried about learning.
I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s.
To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.
You know what the true definition of hell is? It's when you die, you get to meet the person you could have been.
We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.
Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.
Sing like no one is listening. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching, and live like it’s heaven on earth.
When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.
There was a time I could have been mistaken for Burt Reynolds. I had a moustache and so did he. But he was the number one star in the world, so there wasn't really much confusion
Be what you are becoming without clinging to what you might have been; what you might yet be.
Yes, I am white now,' said Gandalf. 'Indeed I am Saruman, one might almost say, Saruman as he should have been.
Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been.
Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.
I might have been born in a hovel, but I determined to travel with the wind and the stars.
With the benefit of hindsight, had more care been taken, maybe this could have been avoided
The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
When I cut myself I feel so much better. All the little things that might have been annoying me suddenly seem so trivial, because I'm concentrating on the pain
I have collections of quirky things from places I've been to, like a set of Russian dolls.
I get that you're scared and that you've been hurt. But doing what is easy and safe is no way to live, and a life without passion and love is so far beneath what you deserve.
Second place is meaningless. You can't always be first, but you have to believe that you should have been - that you were never beaten - that time just ran out on you.
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.
I've been in love with you since the very beginning. You asked why there isn't anyone else in my life, and the reason... is you" - J.D.
There is a wealth of unexpressed love in the world. It is one of the chief causes of sorrow evoked by death: what might have been said or might have been done that never can be said or done.
Michael Brown and Eric Garner died because they got into a confrontation that could have been easily avoided. That's what made their deaths so tragic.
Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.
The fabulous places I've been, wonderful things that've happened, great people I've met ought to make a story.