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Has Beens Quotes - Page 11

No man is a man until he has been a soldier.

Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.104, Vintage

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

"Great Performances (Leonard Bernstein: The Gift of Music)". TV Series, December 29, 1993.

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.

"Mental Recreation; or, Select Maxims". Anonymous author, p. 234, 1831.

For many human beings, religion has been the music which they believe in.

George Steiner (2010). “Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?”, p.251, Faber & Faber

Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.

Eugene Ionesco, Charles Marowitz (2015). “Exit the King, The Killer, Macbett”, p.53, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.

Edgar Degas, Jean Sutherland Boggs (1988). “Degas [exposition]”, p.222, Metropolitan Museum of Art

I have been singing since I was kid.

Source: chicago.gopride.com

Being interesting has been replaced by being identifiable.

Chuck Klosterman (2010). “What Happens When People Stop Being Polite: An Essay from Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

Logic is an old subject, and since 1879 it has been a great one.

"Methods of Logic". Book by Willard Van Orman Quine, 1950.

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill”

I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom.

United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1988). “Ronald Reagan”

We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

Harvard Law Review Natural Law Volume 32, Number 1, November 1918 (p. 40)