Top 72 Quotes About Could Have Beens
#1. Regrets and could-have-beens tried to sneak in, but he shoved them away. No time for this now.
Harlan Coben
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. Every weapons system has been gutted.
Jeb Bush
#7. Everybody has been cheated on, everyone will be cheated on,
Cameron Diaz
#8. President Obama contends that charges he is "not really an American" have been trumped up by you-know-who.
Michael R. Burch
#9. It has been said that a friend is somebody with whom it is possible to be silent.
Robert Evans
#10. Essentially, he has been retired since he was 21.
Jack Nicklaus
#11. No better commentary on the Vedas has been written or can be written.
Swami Vivekananda
#12. Where you have been is not nearly as important as where you are and where you're going.
Marvin J. Ashton
#13. It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
Claude Monet
#14. I'm gay. I always have been and I always will be, and I'm happy.
Andrew Sullivan
#15. I'm definitely drawn to things that are new, so something specifically for me would have been fun.
Cheyenne Jackson
#18. What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.
John Lennon
#19. Money is power in American politics. It always has been.
William Greider
#20. In another time I guess I would have been content with filming girls and cats. But you don't choose your time.
Chris Marker
#21. I am always frustrated when I see situations that could have been handled simpler.
Renee Lawless
#22. I could have never dreamed what an amazing ride this has been.
Jennie Finch
#23. Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.
Ozzy Osbourne
#24. 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
#25. What happened to you could have been worse - it could have happened to me.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#26. 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
#27. If he had had no education, maybe Basho could have been a much greater poet.
Nanao Sakaki
#28. Faith, I have been a truant in the law
And never yet could frame my will to it,
And therefore frame the law unto my will.
William Shakespeare
#29. No one could have been more surprised than I at my successes, and yet deep within me there was acknowledgment that had I not succeeded, I would have been equally surprised.
Margery Wilson
#30. What a Beethoven, Shakespeare or Picasso has done is not create something, so much as they have accessed that place within themselves from which they could express that which has been created by God.
Marianne Williamson
#31. Whatever success we have had in maintaining our culture has been instrumental in Intel's success in surviving strategic inflection points.
Andy Grove
#32. It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
Alan Paton
#33. I would have been better than Adolf Hitler. I could have delivered his speeches a lot better ... that's for certain.
Klaus Kinski
#34. I could never have been an accountant. I got a D in math.
Rob Marshall
#35. Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.
Abba Eban
#36. Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed.
Jean-Luc Godard
#37. Whatever happens in a government could have happened differently, and it usually would have been better if it had.
Charles Frankel
#38. There would have been more 'I love you's' and more, 'I'm sorry's'.
Erma Bombeck
#39. For every bad moment I've had, there have been 25 positives.
Andy Roddick
#40. It has been Gujarat's strength to do development with Jan Bhagidari.
Narendra Modi
#41. My parents are my No. 1 supporters and they always have been.
Mariel Zagunis
#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. It has been proven that the universe is computationally equivalent to my ego.
Stephen Wolfram
#44. I have been in competitions for commissions. I've won most and lost some. Mostly, I've won.
Robert Barry
#45. Anything less would not have been worthy of me. Anything more would not have been possible.
Carl Yastrzemski
#47. The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.
Samuel Johnson
#50. The person who has been photographed, not the total person, is dead, dead for having been seen.
Christian Metz
#51. 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
#52. Music has been a fantastic guidance for me. I'll be eternally thankful for this guidance.
Pinchas Zukerman
#54. Wherever a mom goes, a prayer has been already there.
Robert Breault
#56. 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
#57. There are no woman composers, never have been and possibly never will be.
Thomas Beecham
#58. 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
#59. My career could have been prolonged for longer
Micky Quinn
#60. I make a hundred mistakes a day. I am, and have been, and will continue to be, wrong about almost everything.
Larry Brilliant
#61. He hadn't done it, and there was no point thinking about might-have-beens
Jo Graham
#63. I came alone and I go as a stranger. I do not know who I am, nor what I have been doing.
Aurangzeb
#64. I have never issued an order since I have been the operating head of the corporation.
Alfred P. Sloan
#65. 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
#66. The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning.
Leonard Bernstein
#67. Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence.
Albert Pike
#70. Playing USA Softball has been more to me than I ever imagined possible.
Jennie Finch
#71. 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
