Top 100 Quotes About Has Beens
#2. Wherever a mom goes, a prayer has been already there.
Robert Breault
#4. Music has been a fantastic guidance for me. I'll be eternally thankful for this guidance.
Pinchas Zukerman
#5. 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
#6. The person who has been photographed, not the total person, is dead, dead for having been seen.
Christian Metz
#8. For every bad moment I've had, there have been 25 positives.
Andy Roddick
#9. The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.
Samuel Johnson
#11. Anything less would not have been worthy of me. Anything more would not have been possible.
Carl Yastrzemski
#12. I have been in competitions for commissions. I've won most and lost some. Mostly, I've won.
Robert Barry
#13. It has been proven that the universe is computationally equivalent to my ego.
Stephen Wolfram
#14. 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
#15. My parents are my No. 1 supporters and they always have been.
Mariel Zagunis
#16. It has been Gujarat's strength to do development with Jan Bhagidari.
Narendra Modi
#19. 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
#20. Playing USA Softball has been more to me than I ever imagined possible.
Jennie Finch
#23. Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence.
Albert Pike
#24. The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning.
Leonard Bernstein
#25. 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
#26. I have never issued an order since I have been the operating head of the corporation.
Alfred P. Sloan
#27. I came alone and I go as a stranger. I do not know who I am, nor what I have been doing.
Aurangzeb
#29. I make a hundred mistakes a day. I am, and have been, and will continue to be, wrong about almost everything.
Larry Brilliant
#30. My career could have been prolonged for longer
Micky Quinn
#31. 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
#32. There are no woman composers, never have been and possibly never will be.
Thomas Beecham
#33. 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
#34. Every weapons system has been gutted.
Jeb Bush
#35. In another time I guess I would have been content with filming girls and cats. But you don't choose your time.
Chris Marker
#36. Money is power in American politics. It always has been.
William Greider
#37. What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.
John Lennon
#40. I'm definitely drawn to things that are new, so something specifically for me would have been fun.
Cheyenne Jackson
#41. I'm gay. I always have been and I always will be, and I'm happy.
Andrew Sullivan
#42. It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
Claude Monet
#43. Where you have been is not nearly as important as where you are and where you're going.
Marvin J. Ashton
#44. No better commentary on the Vedas has been written or can be written.
Swami Vivekananda
#45. Essentially, he has been retired since he was 21.
Jack Nicklaus
#46. It has been said that a friend is somebody with whom it is possible to be silent.
Robert Evans
#47. President Obama contends that charges he is "not really an American" have been trumped up by you-know-who.
Michael R. Burch
#48. Everybody has been cheated on, everyone will be cheated on,
Cameron Diaz
#49. 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
#50. Whatever success we have had in maintaining our culture has been instrumental in Intel's success in surviving strategic inflection points.
Andy Grove
#51. There would have been more 'I love you's' and more, 'I'm sorry's'.
Erma Bombeck
#52. I'm grateful that music has been a place where I've found freedom.
Valerie June
#53. Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.
Henry Ward Beecher
#54. There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.
E. M. Forster
#55. There have been times when I have failed. But there have never been times when I thought I would fail
Michael Jordan
#56. We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured
by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.
Solon
#57. Everything what's inspiring has been created by one who could work in freedom
Albert Einstein
#58. It has been pretty much downhill ever since the 13th amendment
Zach Braff
#59. We define ourselves by the best that is in us, not the worst that has been done to us.
Edward B. Lewis
#60. I love my onscreen frenemy, Dianna Agron! Having the opportunity to work so closely with her has been amazing.
Lea Michele
#61. Life isn't all about what you don't have, but yet, what you do with what you have been given.
Robert M. Hensel
#62. 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
#63. There has always been excuses for wars, but NONE of them have been good or valid.
Cindy Sheehan
#64. Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn't let me down.
Jimmy Page
#65. My old vintage designs are so popular now. I must have been on to something.
Pierre Cardin
#66. It has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public,
Solomon Northup
#67. Without internet, there would have been no Jack Ma, and no Alibaba or Taobao.
Jack Ma
#68. Make things that carry with them the residue of where they have been.
Dennis Oppenheim
#69. After all, religion has been around a lot longer than Darwinism.
George W. Bush
#70. Whatever happens in a government could have happened differently, and it usually would have been better if it had.
Charles Frankel
#71. It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.
Alain De Botton
#72. 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
#73. From our earliest beginnings, we have been a nation obsessed with sex, titillated by it at the same time that we fear it, elaborating rules to contain it at the same time that we violate them.
Lillian B. Rubin
#74. Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed.
Jean-Luc Godard
#75. Once you get clear on who you are, what you do, and what you have been CALLED to do, you become powerful.
Iyanla Vanzant
#76. He has been trying to sing Love into existence again And he has failed
Margaret Atwood
#77. My life and art have not been separated. They have been together.
Eva Hesse
#79. You must leave this world a better place than it would have been if you had not existed.
Isabel Wilkerson
#81. Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.
Corrie Ten Boom
#82. There has been no lack of courage in Ireland; there never is, but even our courage has a fatal quality.
Susan Mitchell
#83. Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.
Voltaire
#84. Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated.
Gunter Grass
#85. I said Ted Cruz has been lying because if you say something that isn't true, and you say it over and over again, and you know that it's not true, there's no other word for it.
Benjamin Carson
#86. Those who have been used of God had to pay a terrific price.
Oswald J. Smith
#87. My whole work drive has been aimed at making people understand each other ...
John Steinbeck
#88. We have been saying this, both pre season and before the season started
Len Ashurst
#89. Had it been in the Old Testament Harry Potter would have been put to death.
Becky Fischer
#90. When the outcome of a meeting is to have another meeting, it has been a lousy meeting.
Herbert Hoover
#91. I have been told that I'm easy to work with because I have an easy personality.
Cameron West
#93. My life has been less like a light switch suddenly turning on, and more like a dimmer switch slowly turned up, over time, more in some moments than others.
Dan Millman
#95. My rule is simply "love what you do". That certainly has brought me to the place I where am at right now. It really has been with the work.
Giancarlo Esposito
#96. There have been times in my life where I was asked to do things and I didn't feel comfortable with it.
Ian Astbury
#97. Gossip has been described as halitosis of the mind.
Croft M. Pentz
#98. He who has had, has been, but he who hasn't been, has been had.
Stanislaw Lem
