Have Been Quotes

I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.

You do what you do and you pay for your sins and there's no such thing as what might have been.

Never's just the echo of forever, lonesome as a love that might have been. Let me go on lovin' and believin' 'til it's over. Please don't tell me how the story ends.

Tired faith all worn and thin, for all we could have done, and all that could have been.

It could have been worse. I could have been born black.

Sometimes you have to look into a mirror and look at the worst you could have been if you're ever going to know the best you were meant to be.

Doctor, do you think it could have been the sausage?

Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.

If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma.

Flying the Feathered Edge captures my life story in an authentic and accurate way. I don't know how it could have been done any better.

To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree

However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.

A sold-out house my first night back. Do you have any idea what kinda pressure that is? I could have been at home in my warm bed, playing Nintendo.

It is never too late to be who you might have been. It is always possible

Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints.

But I know that I'm not who I was supposed to be. Who I could have been. And I know it's because I was too afraid for too long.

To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have.

The last 15 years, there has been no recorded warming. Contrary to all the theories that they are expounding, there should have been warming over the last 15 years. It hasn't happened.

Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world ... unless it had been a first-class circus.

If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music.

If I had been born one or two hundred years ago, I might have been a sculptor, but photography is a very quick way to see, to make sculpture.

Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.

When you get down to the nitty gritty, isn't it a pity that in this big city not one little bitty man will admit that he could have been a little wrong.

I'm no liar. I could have been wrong, but I ended up not being [wrong]. But I'm no liar.

The dream might have been more than a dream. It was as if a door in the wall of reality had come ajar... and now all sorts of unwelcome things were flying through.

But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it.

What happened to you could have been worse - it could have happened to me.

Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

When I arrived in France, it was very, very difficult. Not because I was in France - I could have been anywhere - but because I was so far, far away from my parents. I missed them so much.

No star is lost once we have seen, We always may be what we might have been.

After a year's research, one realizes that it could have been done in a week.

There's no point dwelling on what might or could have been. You just have to go forward.

Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won.

He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.

time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.

No second chance?" A wry smile twisted Carrick's lips. "There might have been, had I not waited so long to take it.

I don't want to live the rest of my life thinking about you and dreaming of what might have been. Stay with me, Allie.

The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.

Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.

When a dream takes hold of you, what can you do? You can run with it, let it run your life, or let it go and think for the rest of your life about what might have been.

Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.

Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse-power scent about them that might have been warranted to carry three miles, and knock a man over at two hundred yards.

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist.

One woman and one man might have been OK in your grandmother's day, but who wants to marry your grandmother? Not even your grandfather!

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different, it's accepting the past for what it was, and using this moment and this time to help yourself move forward.