Been Quotes

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.

I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.

Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be.

The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.

I should have been a country-western singer. After all, I'm older than most western countries.

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

There was a possibility I could have been under surveillance.

Its better to be second while everyone is saying You should have been first than be first when everyone says You should be second.

But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole.

If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease.

I'm happy with my career but I could have been happier if I could have been treated like a champion should have been treated because management and fighters take advantage of fighters.

With all the opportunities I had, I could have done more. And if I'd done more, I could have been quite remarkable.

I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a great classical pianist!

I would love to come to Auckland. That's a place I've been quite a lot with my band so I'm very much looking forward to it.

If I could have been anyone in the world, it would have been Ronaldinho. He's fantastic, I love watching him.

So many of my rookie mistakes could have been avoided by first-hand exposure to other, more experienced technology entrepreneurs.

I'm in love with boxing. It fell into my lap and I have been in love with it ever since.

As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from them. I thought that was fun.

Marx's theory that only capitalists benefit from capitalism and workers are exploited was completely wrong. Nothing could have been further from the truth. Workers earned more as economies grew.

The thousands of clips on internet are better to us than any DVD that could have been released.

Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.

Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer

The copyeditor I drew was a brachycephalic, web-footed cretin who should have been in an institution learning how to make brooms.

In practical terms the South Pointing Chariot was a simple direction finder. It could have been made to point in any direction - north, south, east or west.

It's odd to think we might have been Sun, moon and stars unto each other; Only I turned down one little street As you went up another.

Another occupation might have been better.

I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty.

If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder

I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.

This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.

No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me.

I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year.

The boy in the pearl gray suit could have been Jane's twin. His hair was darker, and his lips were not as full, but he was just as lovely.

I might have been born just plain white trash / but Fancy was my name.

I could have possibly beaten Senator McCain in the primary. Then I could have been the candidate who lost to Barack Obama.

I could have played more complex stuff. I could have been a busier player. But that's not what I wanted to do. I played what I wanted to play.

My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher.

There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been.

I don't think I've ever been in love, I'm sure I will be some day. I've had enormous crushes, although I've never been into the Brad Pitt thing.

Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them.

Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.

This person should have been aborted years ago.

My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.

I feel quite comfortable and happy with making a work that looks like it could have been made by somebody else.

I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself.

Life is too short to dwell on what might have been.

I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been.

You have to have been in love to write poetry.

But in another world, another life, probably growing up in another country, I might have been more of a dancer.