Have Been Quotes

I knew one person in the entire city of New York. Looking back, I should have been terrified, but I was just excited to living in New York on my own and acting professionally.

Sneak out." He shrugged, as if that should have been a no-brainer. But that was easy for him to say. He was dead. What else could they do to him, take away his birthday?

After the bitching I'd done to Abe about going to remote, crappy places, I should have been excited about the prospect of going to Sin City.

Dimitri should have been here with me. That's how it was supposed to have been.

Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.

My game wasn't where it should have been at all at the start of the year. I got into a couple of bad habits on my swing, and it just took me a little bit of time to get out of them.

Journalists should have been the first to tell people what Obamacare would mean to them. They are now the last to figure all of this out.

I should have been much more responsible in how I handled myself and for that am sorry.

This was our common ground, the secret we shared but never spoke aloud. I should have been with him; she should have left him alone. Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.

Looking back, it seemed like it should have been harder to lose someone, or have them lose you, especially when they were in the same state, only a few towns over.

We should have been wiser; we should have died yesterday.

Under most circumstances that would result in disqualification. If the rules of golf are upheld, I believe he should have been disqualified.

Whenever I see a cut of a film and something is gone, I don't notice it unless it obviously should have been kept.

The problem is that the constitution should have been and was an opportunity, exactly as Moncef Marzouki tried to do, to bring together the secularists and Islamists.

If the Sunday had not been observed as a day of rest during the last three centuries, I have not the slightest doubt that we should have been at this moment a poorer people and less civilized.

A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic.

If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer.

It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.

If the worst is going to happen, it'll happen. Worrying can't protect you from that. And if it doesn't happen then you've missed out on all the time that when you could have been having fun

In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.

Sometimes it seems that we might have been happier if we had once had an aristocracy to blame everything on.

Stars on our door, stars in our eyes, stars exploding in the bits of our brains where the common sense should have been

It's true, we tend to write about the same thing over and over again because this is our trauma. If I had been in World War II, I might have been writing about D-Day over and over again.

Somebody who should have been born is gone. Yes, woman, such logic will lead to loss without death. Or say what you meant, you coward . . . this baby that I bleed.

If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.

Style consists in maintaining a convincing reality all through a piece. It's like wearing a garment that looks as if it might have been made for you even if it wasn't.

By the way, you know, Mitt Romney and McCain, I don't agree with them, but they would have been okay. I could have been satisfied with them.

It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.

Lots of crime films are about work. Free Fire could have been about a company of plumbers doing pipe-fixing and stuff. But the plumbing film is not so exciting.

... the radical deficiency of imagist verse, as such, is in its lack of general ideas. Much of it might have been written by an infinitely sensitive decapitated frog. It is hemisphereless poetry.

I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn't talk about himself very much.

Jimmy Stewart could have been a good golfer, but he speaks so slowly that by the time he yells 'Fore!' the guy he's hit is already in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.

I am, of comics I was never as big of a fan as I probably could have been I suppose but I'm definitely a fan of science fiction fantasy. My interests were in fantasy more than comics growing up.

There is a very good chance I could have been a screw-up for the rest of my life.

The Jersey Shore is the kind of place where the policeman has a little cottage that might have been in the family for years and many other people call home.

At lunchtime the place is jumping, while at night the dining rooms could have been rented out for chess tournaments.

Jewel,' he said, 'what lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.

I might have been able to make it as a pitcher except for one thing: I had a rather awkward motion and every time I brought my left arm forward I hit myself in the ear.

It could have been the whole thing where you stabbed him.

I can’t even think about what life “could have been” like in Boston, without crying. It’s like deja-vu, I don’t think me and Boston were ever meant to be.

I think I need to face what I could have been in order to understand and accept what I am.

Carles Puyol is a Barcelona legend. He could have been playing every two weeks but he has shown dignity until the end.

You might have been paid back enough to suit you" I said, "but I don't know if you've been paid back enough to suit me.

My rest might have been blissful enough, only a sad heart broke it.

Jeb Bush has being slammed by his own party for a very messy response to questions about his brother's war in Iraq. He should have been ready for this one.

It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.

He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.

I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt like taking a pair of scissors and cutting it up.

If I make a wrong decision, I worry what might have been. I stress out over very insignificant things.

I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.