Been Quotes

If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't.

The first step to get people interested in history is to wonder how things could have been different.

Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us.

If I could take a punch like that, I might have been able to think up a name besides George for all my sons.

She would wonder what had hurt her when she found her face wet with tears, and then would wonder how she could have been hurt without knowing it.

Do not believe those persons who say they have never been jealous. What they mean is that they have never been in love.

As a player leaving early, you always look back and wonder what could have been. But you have to be happy with your decisions, because you ultimately have to live with them.

Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?

I've never been in love with Marcello [Mastroianni]. I wasn't even attracted to him physically. I admired him. I followed him and supported him, but nothing ever clicked.

I'll always remain friends with men I've been in love with. Each one gave me so much, in so many ways.

I don't have any degrees. I went to Hunter College one year and New York University another year. It's just on the basis of my books that I've been hired at any of the places I've been.

My life could have been so grim really, really grim.

I like watching films that are 94 minutes as a spectator. I think it's rare that you don't come out, even from a good film, thinking I wish it could have been a little bit shorter.

It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might have been spared in my education, for I never read.

I think there's a lot that the larger society could have been taught or can be taught, but I'm not sure - given how unyielding the larger society has been - that much has been learned.

I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.

Beyond the window, some kind of small, black thing shot across the sky. A bird, possibly. Or it might have been someone's soul being blown to the far side of the world.

No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them.

But the might-have-been is but boggy ground to build upon.

I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.'

Someone once noted that Hugh Everett should have been declared a "national resource," and given all the time and resources he needed to develop new theories.

If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris.

I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.

There have been a few moments when I have known complete satisfaction, but only a few. I have rarely been free from the disturbing realization that my playing might have been better.

Don't hold yourself back because you're afraid or because you've been hurt...acknowle dge your fear, accept it, and walk through it with confidence.

God, I wish you could have been there.

I have hope because I love you – I’ve been in love with you, Avery. Probably before I even realize that I was

Blay said roughly,"I'm still in love with him" Saxton dropped his eyes and brushed at the top of his thigh, as if there might have been a tiny piece of lint there. " I know. You thought you weren't?

You are the male I might have been. You are the potential I had and lost. You are the honor and the strength and the kindness she needs. You'll take care of her. I want you to take care of her.

My second passion besides fighting is traveling. So, for me to be able to go somewhere like the places I've been is just awesome.

The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by their wisest forethought.

Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be.

Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

Well, sure, but I don't bring God into it. I think shower massage might have been invented by the devil. God invented the missionary position.

Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.

Our enemies, like the Grecian hero, have one vulnerable point. You have not touched it yet. What should have been their element of weakness has been suffered to remain an element of strength.

I could have been better. That's my goal now, to be better.

been there done that, bought the t-shirt" Chapter 2

There's always male roles I want to play. I'm so annoyed when I watch movies and go, "That could have been played by a woman."

hurting other people is not excusable because you've been hurt yourself.

I think that there's part of me that feels like maybe I should have been more social.

The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.

My philosophy in life, where I was trying to get, could have been a little bit different.

They might have been all-right people doing the best they could, but I got to tell you, you got a dead cat lying in your yard you ought to bury it. That’s my motto.

It's probably one of the worst places I've been.

The saddest thing of word or pen, To know the things that might have been.

I've written good love songs when I have been in love and I've written good love songs when I haven't.

I've been hurt so many times I don't have the balls for it anymore.

It might have been really cool back in the '50s when it was less populated but I don't know.