Been Quotes

Once you have done with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five.

If it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian.

All young lovers, whoever you are, I hope your troubles are few. All my good wishes go with you tonight. I've been in love like you.

Stubbornness should have been my middle name.

Even though the outcome wasn't the way it should have been, publicly I still feel in my heart I won the Sugar Ray Leonard fight.

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

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

I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else.

I am always frustrated when I see situations that could have been handled simpler.

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.

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

I would have preferred to have been in a film where I could've been more authentic or more human, where the dialogue and my approach to the part could have been more real.

I've never been in love... But I imagine it's similar to the feeling you get when you see your waiter arriving with your food

Be who you are, said the Duchess to Alice, or, if you would like it put more simply, never try to be what you might have been or could have been other than what you should have been.

I had always been in love with him. I counted the lashes of each closed eye. He had been my almost, my might have been, and I did not want to leave him

I felt I should have been taught about the landmine problem. It made me suddenly realize certain things about the world and how much I had to learn, like the history of the people.

Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.

Have I ever been in love? Really in love? And why is it that with each new guy I think I'm more in love with him than the last?

He'd woken up the next day in the city hospital with Magnus Bane staring down at him with an odd expression--it could have been deep concern or merely curiosity, it was hard to tell with Magnus.

Decades of Saddam’s rule made what could have been a fairly rich country, due to its oil reserves, into a very poor one.

Don't waste time thinking about what could have been when you could be thinking about what could be.

Hillary Clinton should have been prosecuted and gone to jail.

The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball.

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.

As she realized what might have been, she grew to be thankful for what was.

There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.

It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study.

Some speak of a return to nature, I wonder where they could have been?

I guess it's a sequel to our story From the journey 'tween heaven and hell With half the time thinking of what might have been and half thinkin' just as well. I guess only time will tell.

Hilary Clinton might have been a better pick than me.

When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she's been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn't want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman.

I have loved and been in love. There's a big difference.

In another time, in another place, I wonder who they might have been.

"Equestrian", by the by, is the gayest word in the English language. In fact, I thought Brokeback Mountain should have been called Two Equestrians.

I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.

I could have been you, you could have been me. One small change that shapes your destiny.

The real preparation for [Christ's] return is not to act like we know it's coming right now and do something different. It's to do what we should have been doing all along.

The information-deprived general populace might have been surprised this week to see a lower paycheck.

But he had been in love once, that he knew. Once and only once, and a long time ago. And it had changed him forever. Perfect love did that to a person and this had been perfect.

I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies when he could have done a lot of great ones.

She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been

Because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.

Whatever else we may say about it, the atonement fulfills the Jewish principle that only one who has been hurt can forgive. At Calvary, God chose to be hurt.

I'd been in love before - I was always in love.

When it came to the on-camera TV stuff, I'd be standing next to the director, my friend, and he'd be asked a question that I should have been answering.

My hope is that anyone who is in love, has been in love, understands love, will be a person who will stand up and say everyone deserves to feel that.

As a cancer survivor, I am very aware of how many wasted minutes I don't have. The surest way to waste what is left of your life is to worry about what might happen or what might have been.