Top 25 Has Beens Quotes of 1136 - Page 20

I have been despised by better men than you.

I have been despised by better men than you.

Men, Despised, Has Beens

George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.3339, Bantam

I have tipped waiters, and I have been tipped by waiters.

George Orwell

Waiter, Has Beens

George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.17, Lulu.com

I have been so fortunate and I really am appreciative of the success I've had.

George Kennedy

Appreciative, Has Beens, Fortunate

"Movies, Hearing Loss and Hearing Aids". Interview with Dr. Beck, www.audiologyonline.com. May 2, 2005.

I have been called the antichrist, though, by Nazis.

Gene Weingarten

Nazi, Antichrist, Has Beens

Source: live.washingtonpost.com

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

G. M. Trevelyan

Cricket, Peasants, Has Beens

G. M. Trevelyan (1944). “English Social History”

A lot of people have been hyped up to be great but just disappeared. I promised myself I wouldn't be one of them.

Freddy Adu

People, Has Beens

I do think evangelicals have been under attack.

Frank Schaeffer

Thinking, Has Beens

Source: www.patheos.com

One never lives so intensely as when one has been thinking hard.

Fernando Pessoa

Thinking, Thinking Hard, Has Beens

Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.74, Profile Books

I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.

Fanny Kemble

Rivers, Rowing, Has Beens

Fanny Kemble (1863). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.80

Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

Evelyn Waugh

Literature, Grows, Has Beens

Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

Aging has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

Erin McKean

Dying, Aging, Has Beens

I hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious

Emily Dickinson

Sweet, Reverie, Has Beens

Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.307, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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

Edward B. Lewis

Done, Worst, Has Beens

I'm a wiseass and a smartass, and I always have been.

David Letterman

Smartass, Has Beens

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Life is nothing unless death has been faced down.

David Gemmell

Life Is, Has Beens

"Legend". Book by David Gemmell, "Drenai series", Ch. 18, 1984.

I have to admit: I have been known to be obsessively neat and like things arranged just so.

David Alan Basche

Neat, Has Beens, Known

When you're afraid keep your mind on what you have to do. And if you have been thoroughly prepared you will not be afraid.

Dale Carnegie

Mind, Prepared, Has Beens

Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

Charles Caleb Colton

Certain, Diffidence, Has Beens

Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.4

Quand notre coeur a fait une fois sa vendange, Vivre est un mal. Once our heart has been harvested once, Life becomes miserable.

Charles Baudelaire

Heart, Miserable, Has Beens

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

Narrative, Miraculous, Has Beens

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.110, Simon and Schuster