Have Been Quotes
Have Been Quote of the day
It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.
The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.
I was too worried about the grades and I should have been more worried about learning.
I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s.
To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.
You know what the true definition of hell is? It's when you die, you get to meet the person you could have been.
We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.
No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.
There was a time I could have been mistaken for Burt Reynolds. I had a moustache and so did he. But he was the number one star in the world, so there wasn't really much confusion
Be what you are becoming without clinging to what you might have been; what you might yet be.
Yes, I am white now,' said Gandalf. 'Indeed I am Saruman, one might almost say, Saruman as he should have been.
Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been.
Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.
With the benefit of hindsight, had more care been taken, maybe this could have been avoided
I might have been born in a hovel, but I determined to travel with the wind and the stars.
When I cut myself I feel so much better. All the little things that might have been annoying me suddenly seem so trivial, because I'm concentrating on the pain
Second place is meaningless. You can't always be first, but you have to believe that you should have been - that you were never beaten - that time just ran out on you.
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.
There is a wealth of unexpressed love in the world. It is one of the chief causes of sorrow evoked by death: what might have been said or might have been done that never can be said or done.
Michael Brown and Eric Garner died because they got into a confrontation that could have been easily avoided. That's what made their deaths so tragic.
Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.
If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.
For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.
There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been.
But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean?
The chaotic situation in Libya is definitely creating a threat. Libya now connects the jihadists in Africa with those in the Middle East and in Afghanistan. This could have been avoided.
I'm just some irritating, lying, ginger kid from Cornwall who should have been locked up in some youth detention centre. I just managed to escape and blag it into music.
I've gone through so much in my life. I should have been dead a long time ago, but I am still here, and I'm the happiest I've ever been.
The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.
We get ready for death by beginning to live life as we should have been living it all along.
The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.
I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.
You really can't worry about stuff you can't control... You need to focus on getting where you need to be and not worry about what could have been and what should have been.
It was not a friendly game, and Jerry certainly did not have friendliness in his eyes. He had an extra mean streak that day. He was out of control and probably should have been ejected.
Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.
It's of no use to look back and say, "I should have been different." At any given moment, we are the way we are, and we see what we're able to see. For that reason, guilt is always inappropriate.
We might have been better off if the question of Obama's patriotism had been raised before he was first elected. Never should we ignore so many red flag warnings again.
A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.
You do what you do and you pay for your sins and there's no such thing as what might have been.