Have Been Quotes

Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be.

Life is too short to dwell on what might have been.

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

Another occupation might have been better.

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

I could have played more complex stuff. I could have been a busier player. But that's not what I wanted to do. I played what I wanted to play.

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

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.

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

There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been.

Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.

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.

I don't regret pulling the trigger. I should have been more careful with many of the things I said afterwards. That was a big regret.

No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me.

This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.

I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.

That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable.

The thousands of clips on internet are better to us than any DVD that could have been released.

What would be awful would be to die and look back miserably - seeing only the bad things, the opportunities missed, or what could have been.

I became so attentive to the souls of other people that I was not as attentive as I might have been to my own.

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

There's nothing so useless than executing a task efficiently when it actually never should have been executed at all.

We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars.

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

Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for about a dollar and a half.

My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher.

Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.

The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.

I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.

It's just the way things are. And you can't dwell on what might have been. You have to look at what is.

Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.

I should have been thinking more about my family, how I raised my children, how I maintained life's work, so to speak.

I only went a year to high school. I should have been in high school, but I was in a band, and when you're successful doing that - well, you aren't too likely to go back.

The boy in the pearl gray suit could have been Jane's twin. His hair was darker, and his lips were not as full, but he was just as lovely.

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

I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself.

As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from them. I thought that was fun.

Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them.

If other cows with mad cow disease were slaughtered, we wouldn't know where to begin looking for people who might have been affected, .. With a comprehensive tracking system, we would.

I might have been born just plain white trash / but Fancy was my name.

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

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."

Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.

This person should have been aborted years ago.