Been Quotes

His statement to himself should have been, 'I possess this now, therefore I am happy', instead of what it so Victorianly was: "I cannot possess this for ever, and therefore am sad."

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

Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been there are totally unacceptable.

It might have been the hardest hit I took all day.

As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along.

That shot might not have been as good as it might have been.

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

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

Another occupation might have been better.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

There was a possibility I could have been under surveillance.

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

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

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

All these jokes have been pre-approved as funny by me.

If silicon had been a gas I should have been a major-general.

If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.

Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed.

I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead - the guy could have been working for Andy Warhol!

Love is a worn-out word. People love their cat, they love their house. I've never been in love with anyone but myself.

It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived.

The first record I bought myself could have been 'Oh Lonesome Me' by Don Gibson or 'Wake Up Little Susie' by the Everly Brothers.

Whoever decided that comic valentines were a good idea should have been sent away to think it over.

Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.

You know, I love traveling and I love being exposed to different cultures, but really it's the people that I've met along the way, not the places I've been, that have opened my eyes.

If he had had no education, maybe Basho could have been a much greater poet.

That could have been his second yellow card - if he'd already got his first one of course

I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have been in love with you.

We must not fail, individually, for if we fail, we fail twice - for ourselves and for those who could have been helped, if we had done our duty.

You can't afford to think about what might have been. You just be aware of what is.

There is no way that the heart-lung machine could have been devised and developed other than through studies on living creatures

We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.

There's a tradition of reenactment in documentary which is about sort of illustrating what the past might have been like.

I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.

History teaches us that the past is full of luck and chance and circumstance, without any one of which, life could have been radically different.

That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history.

We did every scene together, every day for four months, and it could have been a disaster, if we didn't get on, but we clicked straight away. Elijah Wood is just the nicest guy.