Have Been Quotes

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.

That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history.

Whoever decided that comic valentines were a good idea should have been sent away to think it over.

If silicon had been a gas I should have been a major-general.

If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

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.

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.

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

We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.

I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.

History teaches us that the past is full of luck and chance and circumstance, without any one of which, life could have been radically different.

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.

Things are what they are and there's no point dwelling in the past or wondering what could have been.

I was a baby when I came into the world--otherwise I might have been smart enough to become a different person.

Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.

I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead - the guy could have been working for Andy Warhol!

She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.

Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed.

The first record I bought myself could have been 'Oh Lonesome Me' by Don Gibson or 'Wake Up Little Susie' by the Everly Brothers.

There's a tradition of reenactment in documentary which is about sort of illustrating what the past might have been like.

I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life.

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

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

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 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.

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.

Hillary Clinton should have been prosecuted and gone to jail.

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

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.

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.

I remember things the way they should have been.

Hollywood is the gold cap on a tooth that should have been pulled out years ago.

Anglo-Saxon barbarians. Arthur should have been made a Knight

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.

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.

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.

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