Top 100 Quotes About Beens
#1. Timid young artists, adding parental fears to their own, often give up their sunny dreams of artistic careers, settling into the twilight world of could-have-beens and regrets.
Julia Cameron
#2. He hadn't done it, and there was no point thinking about might-have-beens
Jo Graham
#4. Paul had always wanted to be a prodigy. But what no one ever told him was that prodigies don't feel like prodigies; they feel old. They feel like has-beens just at the moment that they're said to be blossoming.
Graham Moore
#5. Regrets and could-have-beens tried to sneak in, but he shoved them away. No time for this now.
Harlan Coben
#7. Stay out of the past. There's nothing there but would've beens, could've beens, and should've beens that will keep you from moving forward.
Julia Mills
#8. A slice of chocolate cake - priorities! - a scoop of chicken potpie, slice of chocolate cake, scoop of yam casserole, slice of chocolate cake, two scoops of mashed potatoes, a slice of chocolate cake, a scoop of buttery green beens, a slice of chocolate cake -
Gena Showalter
#9. The world is full of bullshitters,
Liars, and triers and quitters,
Coulda-beens, wannabe's, thought-I-was, isn't-I-is's ...
And everybody in your business.
Aceyalone
#11. Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens.
Alfred Bertram Guthrie
#12. He shrugs. "Doesn't help to waste my time thinking about would've-beens."
Laila whispers, "He says to the girl with a mind full of them.
Kasie West
#13. There is no you, Maria, any more than there is a me. There is only this way that we have established over the months of performing together, and what it is congruent with isn't "ourselves" but past performances
we're has-beens at heart, routinely trotting out the old, old act.
Philip Roth
#14. God sends the dawn that we might see the might-have-beens that still might be.
Robert Breault
#15. You play it safe and all you end up with is a lifetime of should-have-beens.
Vivi Andrews
#16. We can't afford to waste tears on might-have-beens. We need to turn the tears into sweat that can take us to what can be.
Denis Waitley
#17. John Jones may be described as 'one of the has beens'.
William Hone
#18. I never felt at home. I stuck outIn New York City, especially in Greenwich Village, down among the cranks and the misfits and the one-lungers and the has-beens and the might've beens and the would-bes and the never-wills and the God-knows-whats, I have always felt at home.
Joseph Mitchell
#19. It's only human to think about the the 'what might have beens'. But it doesn't change what really is. And if we get lost in things that aren't, we lose sight of what's right in front of us.
Dan Skinner
#20. I can't help my mind skipping over the here-and-now and racing on, to what might come next. Consequence and regret and other might-have-beens: plotting out every angle and scenario, knowing all along that the path I take means missing something else.
Abigail Haas
#21. Do we miss not only the past but every future the lost past describes? Is that just the nature of missing? All the lost might-have-beens? The certainty that those uncertain futures are gone? If we can't embrace uncertainty do we miss the point of love?
Mark Z. Danielewski
#22. I know it might be better for you to come out from under your might-have-beens, into the winds of the world.
John Steinbeck
#23. No what-might-have-beens. If God says not to worry about tomorrow, I would think the same applies to yesterday. There's enough trouble in the here and now to worry about how differently things could have turned out.
Liz Tolsma
#24. I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.
Nikki Giovanni
#25. And they've concluded that our democratic system is an abject failure. And they think we Americans are weak, lazy, whiny, self-important global has-beens, inflated with a false sense of entitlement. In this, they are probably correct.
Douglas Preston
#26. If you suffer misfortune ... do you damnedest to ignore it. Wallowing in what-might-have-beens and what-could have-happeneds will only keep your emotional wounds festering.
Shelly Branch
#27. What do you get when you give a teenager $200 million? A bunch of has-beens calling you a lesbian for two hours ...
Justin Bieber
#28. She shook off the self-recrimination. What-ifs and could-have-beens were not the way to move forward. She knew that from experience.
Judi Fennell
#30. Wherever a mom goes, a prayer has been already there.
Robert Breault
#32. Music has been a fantastic guidance for me. I'll be eternally thankful for this guidance.
Pinchas Zukerman
#33. Nothing is ever done until everyone is convinced that it ought to be done, and has been convinced for so long that it is now time to do something else.
Francis Cornford
#34. The person who has been photographed, not the total person, is dead, dead for having been seen.
Christian Metz
#36. For every bad moment I've had, there have been 25 positives.
Andy Roddick
#37. The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.
Samuel Johnson
#39. Anything less would not have been worthy of me. Anything more would not have been possible.
Carl Yastrzemski
#40. I have been in competitions for commissions. I've won most and lost some. Mostly, I've won.
Robert Barry
#41. It has been proven that the universe is computationally equivalent to my ego.
Stephen Wolfram
#42. The only woman to whom it has been given to touch what is decisive in the present world and to have a presentiment of the world of the future.
Margaret Fuller
#43. My parents are my No. 1 supporters and they always have been.
Mariel Zagunis
#44. It has been Gujarat's strength to do development with Jan Bhagidari.
Narendra Modi
#47. When nothing was, then God was there,
Had nothing been God would have been;
My being has defeated me,
Had I not been, what would have been.
Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
#48. Playing USA Softball has been more to me than I ever imagined possible.
Jennie Finch
#51. Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence.
Albert Pike
#52. The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning.
Leonard Bernstein
#53. There are occasions when I have moved boulders, but I'm reluctant to, especially ones that have been rooted in a place for many years.
Andy Goldsworthy
#54. I have never issued an order since I have been the operating head of the corporation.
Alfred P. Sloan
#55. I came alone and I go as a stranger. I do not know who I am, nor what I have been doing.
Aurangzeb
#57. I make a hundred mistakes a day. I am, and have been, and will continue to be, wrong about almost everything.
Larry Brilliant
#58. My career could have been prolonged for longer
Micky Quinn
#59. I didn't see it as someone who worked as hard as I did. But now that Saint Laurent is part of history, it makes me a part of history, so, yes, finally it's not such a bad thing to have been a muse.
Loulou De La Falaise
#60. There are no woman composers, never have been and possibly never will be.
Thomas Beecham
#61. It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.
E. M. Forster
#62. Every weapons system has been gutted.
Jeb Bush
#63. In another time I guess I would have been content with filming girls and cats. But you don't choose your time.
Chris Marker
#64. Money is power in American politics. It always has been.
William Greider
#65. What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.
John Lennon
#68. I'm definitely drawn to things that are new, so something specifically for me would have been fun.
Cheyenne Jackson
#69. I'm gay. I always have been and I always will be, and I'm happy.
Andrew Sullivan
#70. It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
Claude Monet
#71. Where you have been is not nearly as important as where you are and where you're going.
Marvin J. Ashton
#72. No better commentary on the Vedas has been written or can be written.
Swami Vivekananda
#73. Essentially, he has been retired since he was 21.
Jack Nicklaus
#74. It has been said that a friend is somebody with whom it is possible to be silent.
Robert Evans
#75. President Obama contends that charges he is "not really an American" have been trumped up by you-know-who.
Michael R. Burch
#76. Everybody has been cheated on, everyone will be cheated on,
Cameron Diaz
#77. Oftentimes you'll see stuff that makes it into the mainstream that has been influenced by things that are clearly not from the mainstream.
Steve Buscemi
#78. Whatever success we have had in maintaining our culture has been instrumental in Intel's success in surviving strategic inflection points.
Andy Grove
#79. There would have been more 'I love you's' and more, 'I'm sorry's'.
Erma Bombeck
#80. I'm grateful that music has been a place where I've found freedom.
Valerie June
#81. Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.
Henry Ward Beecher
#82. There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.
E. M. Forster
#83. There have been times when I have failed. But there have never been times when I thought I would fail
Michael Jordan
#84. We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured
by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.
Solon
#85. Everything what's inspiring has been created by one who could work in freedom
Albert Einstein
#86. It has been pretty much downhill ever since the 13th amendment
Zach Braff
#87. We define ourselves by the best that is in us, not the worst that has been done to us.
Edward B. Lewis
#88. I love my onscreen frenemy, Dianna Agron! Having the opportunity to work so closely with her has been amazing.
Lea Michele
#89. Life isn't all about what you don't have, but yet, what you do with what you have been given.
Robert M. Hensel
#90. I have been suspected of being what is called a Fundamentalist. That is because I never regard any narrative as unhistorical simply on the ground that it includes the miraculous.
C.S. Lewis
#91. There has always been excuses for wars, but NONE of them have been good or valid.
Cindy Sheehan
#92. Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn't let me down.
Jimmy Page
#93. My old vintage designs are so popular now. I must have been on to something.
Pierre Cardin
#94. It has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public,
Solomon Northup
#95. Without internet, there would have been no Jack Ma, and no Alibaba or Taobao.
Jack Ma
#96. Make things that carry with them the residue of where they have been.
Dennis Oppenheim
#97. After all, religion has been around a lot longer than Darwinism.
George W. Bush
#98. Whatever happens in a government could have happened differently, and it usually would have been better if it had.
Charles Frankel
#99. It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.
Alain De Botton
#100. I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.
Sigmund Freud
