Have Been Quotes

Some speak of a return to nature, I wonder where they could have been?

I guess it's a sequel to our story From the journey 'tween heaven and hell With half the time thinking of what might have been and half thinkin' just as well. I guess only time will tell.

Hilary Clinton might have been a better pick than me.

In another time, in another place, I wonder who they might have been.

I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.

I could have been you, you could have been me. One small change that shapes your destiny.

The information-deprived general populace might have been surprised this week to see a lower paycheck.

I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies when he could have done a lot of great ones.

She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been

As a cancer survivor, I am very aware of how many wasted minutes I don't have. The surest way to waste what is left of your life is to worry about what might happen or what might have been.

I'd love to be in Paul McCartney's shoes for a day. I'd love to pick up a guitar and write songs like he does. Or to experience what it might have been like to be a Beatle for a day.

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published.

Brethren, who are we that God should have been so good to us?

[Sheehan] deserves some consideration, and I think that should have been done right from the beginning.

I was an 'Ironman' fan. It was in the '70s. I definitely liked comics and drew a lot of panels on my notebook when I should have been studying - probably why I ended up in the arts.

I don't feel like there should have been three backs taken ahead of me. And I'll always feel that way. But there's only one draft, and I can't change it. All I can do is go out and prove myself.

If Albert Einstein was right, Cal Ripken should have been a CEO or politician rather than a shortstop, because Ripken led by example over and over... and over again.

I always look back and say I should have made more. It should have been more lucrative, but it wasnt.

I did disagree with Ronald Reagan very strongly on trade. I disagreed with him. We should have been much tougher on trade even then. I've been waiting for years. Nobody does it right.

[Barack] Obama is the great divider, he has totally used race. And it should have been the other way around. He had an opportunity to unify and he didn't do that.

God picks us up where we are, not where we should have been

Kewell should have been yanked off the pitch at half time and put in a hot bath, a boiling hot bath.

I was not really as good as I should have been.

I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

If I had not smoked I should have been dead ten years ago.

I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.'

Someone once noted that Hugh Everett should have been declared a "national resource," and given all the time and resources he needed to develop new theories.

I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.

Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be.

Our enemies, like the Grecian hero, have one vulnerable point. You have not touched it yet. What should have been their element of weakness has been suffered to remain an element of strength.

I think that there's part of me that feels like maybe I should have been more social.

And the United States of America should have been at the front of that line. And was not.

No, he hadn’t just dragged her to California. He’d dragged her into a cursed eternity. A burden that should have been his alone to bear.

My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.

Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been.

Prayer has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago.

I should have been happy: I wasn’t.

I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have been gained by a delicate suggestion. Since they never were, I made myself into a fighter.

I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

How beautiful is modesty! It winneth upon all beholders; but a word or a glance may destroy the pure love that should have been for thee.

Why had I taken all those useless classes like bio and German when I should have been taking lipreading?

I don't think I should have been married... to anybody.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

And in that sliver of time, I felt the power around me coalesce, malice-hard and sharp as crystal. That this analogy occurred to me should have been a warning.

If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.

Never was there a dingier, uglier, less picturesque city than London ... it is really wonderful that so much brick and stone, for centuries together, should have been built up with so poor a result.

I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.

An Olympic medal won't define my whole life, although it might look like it to onlookers. When I look back, I should have been able to get an Olympic medal.

I should have been a stuntwoman.