Quotes & Sayings About Has Beens

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated. — Peter Drucker

The true confessors have been aware that not only is life mostly failure, but that in one's failure or pettiness or wrongness exists the living drama of the self. — Gore Vidal

I have just dropped into the very place I have been seeking, but in everything it exceeds all my dreams. — Isabella Bird

Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I've learned so much from my professors and have been fortunate to have had so many good ones, including Frederick and Steven Barthelme, Edward Carey, Jim Magnuson, and Elizabeth McCracken. — Mary J. Miller

My father has been a rock for me every since. — Andrew Sullivan

Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened. — Voltaire

I'm all right. I'm good. There has been better times, but I'll be okay. — Kenny Chesney

I never wore earplugs - that would have been cheating. — Johnny Ramone

Music and film are inseparable. They always have been and always will be. — Martin Scorsese

We know how God would act if he were in our place - he has been in our place. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

I have been everywhere because I don't know what I'm looking for. — E.L. Doctorow

After all, religion has been around a lot longer than Darwinism. — George W. Bush

Logic is an old subject, and since 1879 it has been a great one. — Willard Van Orman Quine

You have been forgiven, so act like it! — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Anything less would not have been worthy of me. Anything more would not have been possible. — Carl Yastrzemski

When we come to an edge we come to a frontier that tells us that we are now about to become more than we have been before. — William Irwin Thompson

President Obama contends that charges he is "not really an American" have been trumped up by you-know-who. — Michael R. Burch

We live now in an era where normal values have been displaced. The good is called bad, the bad - good. — Anna Politkovskaya

What happened to you could have been worse - it could have happened to me. — Ashleigh Brilliant

We define ourselves by the best that is in us, not the worst that has been done to us. — Edward B. Lewis

My parents are my No. 1 supporters and they always have been. — Mariel Zagunis

So much of my life has been about self-effacement, pretense, masquerading, concealment, and indirection. — Marlon Riggs

Man has been lent, not given, to life. — Publilius Syrus

The one thing that might have stopped San Bernardino, that might have stopped 9/11 would have been stricter controls on those who came here. — Ted Cruz

There have been some ups and downs, but I'm happy that I've stayed fairly consistent. — Evan Longoria

The history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

If whatsoever you have been living can be conveyed by words, that means you have not lived at all. — Rajneesh

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown. — Will Rogers

It is more pitiable once to have been rich than not to be rich now. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

He who is or has been deeply hurt has a RIGHT to be sure he is LOVED. — Jean Vanier

There have always been readers throughout history who have been drawn to villains. — Cassandra Clare

My life really has been one long extravaganza. — Noel Coward

Maurice has been a revelation, on and off the field, — Alexi Lalas

Had Twitter been invented earlier, my books would have been shorter. — Tom Peters

Metal is more popular than it ever has been, every expression of it. — Mike Scheidt

We who have been ahead in STYLE have usually been also ahead in our thinking. — Charles James

In another time I guess I would have been content with filming girls and cats. But you don't choose your time. — Chris Marker

Since God has been pleased to give us the Papacy, let us enjoy it. — Pope Leo X

My mistakes have been some of the best teachers of my life. — Kelly Cutrone

If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it for the reptile from whom it has been fabricated. — Albert Einstein

Education is what is left after all that has been learnt is forgotten. — James Bryant Conant

The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd. — George Herbert

The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning. — Leonard Bernstein

No man is obliged to be what he might have been. — David Berlinski

I could have never dreamed what an amazing ride this has been. — Jennie Finch

Duties have been mine; consequences are God's. — Andrew Johnson

My own passion, all my life, has been non-collecting. — Louise Imogen Guiney

The French, unfortunately, actually believe what they say, and that has been very destructive. — Paul Krugman

Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs. — Horace

Never ask a man where he has been. — Mae West

Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along. — Robin Morgan

We have been basically persuaded that we should not talk about racism. — Angela Davis

Faith is what is left after all your beliefs have been blown to hell. — Ram Dass

There is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be. — Gertrude Stein

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were offered me. — Bertrand Russell

Nothing I have ever written has been admired as much as the announcement of my death. — Harold Brodkey

I have been maturing as a teacher. — W. Howard Lester

I've grown environmentally. I'm far more cautious, although I always have been; but more now. And I have grown a lot professionally by working with George Miller. — Brittany Murphy

I'm gay and always have been, even when I was David Jones — David Bowie

The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective. — Bill Nye

Just because something has been a lot of work or consumed a lot of time doesn't make it productive or worthwhile. — Tim Ferriss

There is no economic problem and, in a sense, there never has been. — E.F. Schumacher

We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured
by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been. — Solon

If 18,000 gods have been invented then it is likely that god 18,001 is also invented. — Graham Kendall

The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved. — Samuel Johnson

It is usually a mistake to reject something merely because it has been tried before and didn't work. — Robert G. Picard

It has been very truly said that the mob has many heads, but no brains. — Antoine Rivarol

The person who has been photographed, not the total person, is dead, dead for having been seen. — Christian Metz

There's no question this is where I want to live. Never has been. — Robin Williams

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

Money always has been something that has attracted itself to me. — Wayne Dyer

In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite. — Anatole France

I'm mainstream. Always have been. — Bill Walton

I'm grateful that music has been a place where I've found freedom. — Valerie June

Arsenal have been literally passed to death. — Jamie Redknapp

Every time I have had a breakthrough in my life, it has been because of Prayer — John C. Maxwell

I've been quite lucky - everything I've done has been quite varied. — Konnie Huq

It has been sagaciously conjectured, that the artful legislator indulged the stubborn prejudices of his countrymen. — Edward Gibbon

A great task has been completed and an even larger one remains. — Madeleine Albright

I'm not jaded. I never have been jaded. I've always been surprised at my success. I've always enjoyed it. — Maurice Sendak

The Obama Administration has been an unmitigated disaster — Osama Bin Laden

It might have been really cool back in the '50s when it was less populated but I don't know. — John Leguizamo

In order to see where we are going, we not only must remember where we have been, but we must understand where we have been. — Ella Baker

I have been a voracious reader for years. — Jacob Tomsky

There would have been no Bach had there been no Luther. — Francis Schaeffer

Without internet, there would have been no Jack Ma, and no Alibaba or Taobao. — Jack Ma

You took the words right out of my mouth, it must have been while you were kissing me. — Meat Loaf

It is better to have done something than to have been someone. — Claude Monet

Prayer has not been a part of my life in the sense that truth has been. — Mahatma Gandhi

To most of us the future seems unsure. But then it always has been; and we who have seen great changes must have great hopes. — John Masefield

Many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death. — John Keats

Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend. — Pierre Corneille

Everything we know has come from stories that have been told over and over again as truth. Those stories turn into history. — Oliver Jeffers

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

David Moyes, in Italy, would have been sacked three times now. — Gianluca Vialli

IAR is policy, always has been. — Jimmy Wales

I would quite like to have been a 1920s writer. — Paul McCartney