Been Quotes
The Human Species could have been great but instead we became satisfied with lights on our tennis shoes.
I might have been eleven years old and a little socially immature, but I recognized a gauntlet being thrown down when I saw it, and I had no choice but to take it up.
I think I might have been stupid in some respects, it if weren't for my psychedelic experiences.
He shook my hand and said goodbye with a sentence that might have been either good advice or a threat: "Take good care of yourself.
As he was growing up, his family moved and lived in a number of different places in Utah, Arizona, and Wyoming. I didn't know then that moving around so much should have been a problem, so it wasn't.
We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.
We saw in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an illness called SARS. SARS ended up killing 800 people which is a significant number of deaths, but nowhere near as high as it could have been.
Might have been a time when I loved her too but you take that away and you'll always be the one.
I guess nothing puts a damper on a one-night stand as much as your friend pointing out all the opportunities where you might have been killed.
We've all been hurt by words before. So before you speak, think about how your words might affect someone else.
I’ve always been in love with Land Rovers and Range Rovers. I own one and was able to make it a little more exclusive.
Polite conservationists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.
The things that have been and shall be no more, The things that are, and that hereafter shall be, The things that might have been, and yet were not, The fading twilight of joys departed.
If poems very different from my own bring pleasure to a group of readers, who am I to say that the poems should have been written differently?
I liked the banana-seat bikes with the high handlebars - maybe a card in the wheel could have been part of it.
I'm constantly proving myself. I have to always prove myself. There are roles where I feel like, "That should have been a straight offer. Why am I having to call my people and fight for it?"
The world is cluttered up with unfinished business in the form of projects that might have been successful, if only at the tide point someone's patience had turned to active impatience.
We are here lounging our time away, doing nothing, and having nothing to do. It gives me great regret to be passing my time so uselessly when it could have been so importantly employed at home.
You cannot prove this in real time, but when economists 20 years from now write a book on the recovery, it may well be entitled, It could have been much better.
Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.
We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters.
I miss you.…” He stroked the indentation of the gown where her waist would have been—should have been. “I miss you so much.
Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal.
I might have been curious about actors' lives when I was growing up. That's human nature.
Opting for gold shoes could have been considered downright cocky, but I was confident and never doubted my ability to deliver gold medals to match my shimmering footwear.
We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.
If I had been a winger, I might have been daydreaming and thinking about how to keep my kit clean for next week.
In two cases I did not fulfill my role as defense minister, in that I did not stop things that I was sure should have been stopped.
My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process.
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.
It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.
I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn't take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own.
You must try never to regret what might have been, child. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot yet see.
In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was.
I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better.
It doesn't matter how greatly you've been hurt or how much you're hurting, it's what you do with the pain that counts. You could cry for years or you could choose to learn and grow from it.
I had a slightly inferior endgame that probably should have been drawn, but Kortchnoi kept torturing me with little threats until finally, exhausted and exasperated, I made a losing mistake.
I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded.
A woman's counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart's ease he liv'd; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
When we have been hurt, slighted, or wounded unfairly, we are not left alone to bear it. We can get on our knees and ask for the Lord's help to forgive.