Have Been Quotes

He shook my hand and said goodbye with a sentence that might have been either good advice or a threat: "Take good care of yourself.

I think I might have been stupid in some respects, it if weren't for my psychedelic experiences.

I might have been eleven years old and a little socially immature, but I recognized a gauntlet being thrown down when I saw it, and I had no choice but to take it up.

I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

The Human Species could have been great but instead we became satisfied with lights on our tennis shoes.

I guess nothing puts a damper on a one-night stand as much as your friend pointing out all the opportunities where you might have been killed.

I liked the banana-seat bikes with the high handlebars - maybe a card in the wheel could have been part of it.

We are here lounging our time away, doing nothing, and having nothing to do. It gives me great regret to be passing my time so uselessly when it could have been so importantly employed at home.

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

We saw in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an illness called SARS. SARS ended up killing 800 people which is a significant number of deaths, but nowhere near as high as it could have been.

The things that have been and shall be no more, The things that are, and that hereafter shall be, The things that might have been, and yet were not, The fading twilight of joys departed.

If poems very different from my own bring pleasure to a group of readers, who am I to say that the poems should have been written differently?

Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person

I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.

In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was.

I could have been a great many things.

A woman's counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart's ease he liv'd; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.

I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.

No man is obliged to be what he might have been.

I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn't take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own.

What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed.

We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters.

I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better.

We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.

I had a slightly inferior endgame that probably should have been drawn, but Kortchnoi kept torturing me with little threats until finally, exhausted and exasperated, I made a losing mistake.

If I had been a winger, I might have been daydreaming and thinking about how to keep my kit clean for next week.

In two cases I did not fulfill my role as defense minister, in that I did not stop things that I was sure should have been stopped.

Opting for gold shoes could have been considered downright cocky, but I was confident and never doubted my ability to deliver gold medals to match my shimmering footwear.

I might have been curious about actors' lives when I was growing up. That's human nature.

There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.

I miss you.…” He stroked the indentation of the gown where her waist would have been—should have been. “I miss you so much.

I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded.

It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.

You must try never to regret what might have been, child. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot yet see.

Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal.

Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.

My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process.

You cannot prove this in real time, but when economists 20 years from now write a book on the recovery, it may well be entitled, It could have been much better.

All I asked for was equality and independence. A rotating chairmanship might have been the answer.

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.

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.

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

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 think that I could have been take apart if the bear market continued, but I waited three years before I felt the bear market was over and I was right.

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.

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

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

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

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