Been Quotes

Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints.

The last 15 years, there has been no recorded warming. Contrary to all the theories that they are expounding, there should have been warming over the last 15 years. It hasn't happened.

I have been in love already, but I don’t think I have ever really loved somebody. Love is a very rare and beautiful thing, but it can also be bitter if the other one doesn’t love you back.

I've never been cool - and I don't care.

I've never been seriously involved with anyone. I've certainly never been in love. I've always preferred to keep things casual.

Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.

Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.

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

You don't just walk out because you think someone has insulted you and your pride has been hurt.

But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it.

If I had been born one or two hundred years ago, I might have been a sculptor, but photography is a very quick way to see, to make sculpture.

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

The dream might have been more than a dream. It was as if a door in the wall of reality had come ajar... and now all sorts of unwelcome things were flying through.

When you get down to the nitty gritty, isn't it a pity that in this big city not one little bitty man will admit that he could have been a little wrong.

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

When I arrived in France, it was very, very difficult. Not because I was in France - I could have been anywhere - but because I was so far, far away from my parents. I missed them so much.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

No star is lost once we have seen, We always may be what we might have been.

I've always been in love with that Delta-flavored music the music that came from Mississippi and Memphis and, especially, New Orleans. When I was 14, I was in a wanna-be New Orleans band in Toronto.

My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.

Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.

When a dream takes hold of you, what can you do? You can run with it, let it run your life, or let it go and think for the rest of your life about what might have been.

There's no point dwelling on what might or could have been. You just have to go forward.

Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won.

After a year's research, one realizes that it could have been done in a week.

I don't want to live the rest of my life thinking about you and dreaming of what might have been. Stay with me, Allie.

No second chance?" A wry smile twisted Carrick's lips. "There might have been, had I not waited so long to take it.

Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse-power scent about them that might have been warranted to carry three miles, and knock a man over at two hundred yards.

Been there, done that, seen it, heard it, pissed on it.

Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.

time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.

He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.

Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.

The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.

It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.

What do you think? I'm not a starfish or a pepper tree. I'm a living, breathing human being. Of course I've been in love.

Fearless is falling madly in love again, even though you've been hurt before.

If Wenger had strengthened in the window, Arsenal could have been stronger

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

I grew up always admiring business owners. I was always interested in knowing who pulled what strings. I've always been in love with the decision making process, not just the product.

Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different, it's accepting the past for what it was, and using this moment and this time to help yourself move forward.

One woman and one man might have been OK in your grandmother's day, but who wants to marry your grandmother? Not even your grandfather!

Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist.

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.

Find out who you are and try not to be afraid of it.

I definitely have a sexual ego thing. But if I'm suggestive, it's in a nice way. Luckily, no one's ever been hurt...a few girls have passed out, that's all.

National Socialism is what Marxism might have been if it could have broken its absurd and artificial ties with a democratic order.