Been Quotes
But I guess you would look beatific, too, if the man you had been in love with since the fifth grade had told you that he was in love with you, too.
I was in love with Scott Bennett. That I had been in love with him my whole life, practically.
I don't regret not coming out early. A lot of people felt that I could have been a lottery pick, but we'll never know.
Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
And in that sliver of time, I felt the power around me coalesce, malice-hard and sharp as crystal. That this analogy occurred to me should have been a warning.
If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.
Never was there a dingier, uglier, less picturesque city than London ... it is really wonderful that so much brick and stone, for centuries together, should have been built up with so poor a result.
You might have been able to fool people the first time, or something, but you really can't make a successful sequel today unless people really, really liked the predecessor.
If Mars formed life, then life on Earth could have been seeded by life on Mars, making every life form on Earth descended from Martians.
I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.
My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas.
No one so dislikes being punished unjustly as the person who might have been punished justly on scores of previous occasions, if he had only been found out.
It was one of the most disgusting spectacles I've ever seen-- this white-haired old man, who should have been thinking of the hereafter, standing there lying like an actor.
He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn't as hopless a thing as it might have been.
My favourite member of the Beatles is Lennon. He might have been crazy. But he's my kind of crazy.
But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.
At twenty-eight I'd had a handful of beaux, but had only been in love once, and that had been awful enough to make me doubt men and myself for a good long while.
An Olympic medal won't define my whole life, although it might look like it to onlookers. When I look back, I should have been able to get an Olympic medal.
Tatiana: "Why did we spend two days fighting when we could have been doing this?" Alexander: "That wasn't fighting, Tatiana. That was foreplay.
I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted - if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible.
Given the large size of the illegal harvest, ... I find it difficult to understand how this could have been a casual oversight.
I knew one person in the entire city of New York. Looking back, I should have been terrified, but I was just excited to living in New York on my own and acting professionally.
Sneak out." He shrugged, as if that should have been a no-brainer. But that was easy for him to say. He was dead. What else could they do to him, take away his birthday?
Love never hurts anybody. And if you feel you have been hurt by love, it is something else in you, not your loving quality that feels hurt.
Yet if we are to live fully, we must love as though we've never been hurt, dream as though our hopes have never been dashed, and take steps toward the future as though life has never given us pain.
After the bitching I'd done to Abe about going to remote, crappy places, I should have been excited about the prospect of going to Sin City.
Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.
Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?
My game wasn't where it should have been at all at the start of the year. I got into a couple of bad habits on my swing, and it just took me a little bit of time to get out of them.
My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.
Journalists should have been the first to tell people what Obamacare would mean to them. They are now the last to figure all of this out.
I know that everyone has been hurt in some way and that everyone is capable of learning and relearning how to trust again. Starting with themselves.
I had a lot of problems in my life. I've been a sickly kid, I had a strange life. They said I could have been blind, handicapped, asthmatic, there were all kind of different problems about me.
It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.
I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If wed had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.
This was our common ground, the secret we shared but never spoke aloud. I should have been with him; she should have left him alone. Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.
Looking back, it seemed like it should have been harder to lose someone, or have them lose you, especially when they were in the same state, only a few towns over.
There’s nothing more humbling than seeing your best quotes in a list, and thinking they could have been written by a coma patient with a keyboard and spasms.
