Has Beens Quotes

We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

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.

If the environment were a bank, it would have been saved by now

If I have succeeded better than many who surround me, it has been chiefly - may I say almost solely - from universal assiduity.

Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.

It is better to have done something than to have been someone.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

The Universe, wrought for us by a supremely good and orderly Creator.

The word impossible has been and must remain deleted from our dictionary.

To get rid of predestination we have been willing to degrade our God into a godling.

I didn't become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.

The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred.

Heaven has appointed me to rule all the nations, for hitherto there has been no order upon the steppes.

...but what has been said once can always be repeated.

I'm no actor and I never have been. What people see on the screen is me.

As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.

The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and of the oppressed.

We are not alone in the universe. They have been coming here for a long time.

Stop. Stop everything. Then you will realize you are the freedom you have been searching for.

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

I'd like to fly, but my wings have been so denied.

It occurred to me that I just didn't see how I could go ahead and continue to eat meat. It just seemed so... cannibalistic to me. And so, I'm a vegetarian, and I have been ever since.

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.

Xbox has been created by gamers for gamers.

Clearly, there has been a lack of imagination about how much can go wrong.