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I'd like to be the person I could have been but never was.

George Bernard Shaw

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

Oscar Wilde

America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.

Oscar Wilde

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Oscar Wilde

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

Alfred North Whitehead

What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared.

Napoleon Bonaparte

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.

John F. Kennedy

When I became President, what surprised me most was that things were just as bad as I'd been saying they were.

John F. Kennedy

I have been one acquainted with the night.

Robert Frost

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

Robert Bresson

The life of the law has not been logic but experience.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

Rene Descartes

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Edgar Allan Poe

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

Edgar Allan Poe

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

Horace Mann

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

Benjamin Franklin

I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say.

Calvin Coolidge

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

Ronald Reagan

I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose…though not always what I pleased.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Seemingly from the dawn of man all nations have had governments; and all nations have been ashamed of them.

G. K. Chesterton

This could have been much worse.

David Starr Jordan

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

Dolly Parton

If it wasn't him, they must have been twins.

Robert Browning

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

Publilius Syrus

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

Saint Jerome

I've always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there.

Bob Hope

If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.

Albert Einstein

The people have been awesome. There are no words for how hard they work.

Mary Kindred

It has been 365 days since we've been down here, and we didn't get what we wanted.

Darin Liles

Everybody has been young before, but not everybody has been old before.

African Proverb

It's been a dream of mine for a while.

Carol Davis

We've been trying to get help up here for two weeks.

Sally Moses

She lit it when Jill got taken and it's been there the whole time.

Paul Taggart

It's an awesome district and to have busted it up would have been almost blasphemy.

Scott Phillips

Others who have been mentioned should do the same.

Mwalimu Mati

We're all just gonna have to play how we have been playing.

Katie Jones

I've been number one and number 1,000, but I've hit bottom and I'm coming back up.

David Duval

There is no closure from these numbers. Nothing has been sorted out.

Bryan Piskorowski

There?s just been a lot of activity.

Nancy Dickson

This has been a team that has overachieved all season.

Mark Hollatz

I'm hoping we come back sharp. We've been able to work on some things.

Rick Branaghan

She's hitting her stride. She's been up and down this year.

Julie Mulder

It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.

Henry David Thoreau

That might not have been the shot, but that was the play we wanted.

Amy Taylor

It must be very hard for him. We're all sorry and I would have been glad to celebrate again.

Antoine Deneriaz

I've been asked for a list of things that these folks need, ... They need everything.

Jack Rogers

It's pretty cool. After what we've been through, you just have to laugh at that.

Justin Wernke

It's been a firestorm of activity.

Johann Olav Koss

We have been disappointed with the team's performance. Results were not what they should have been.

Roman Romanov

Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.

Sigmund Freud

It's been busy, but it's been a great busy. Every day it's something great. Somebody calls to do this or do that.

Wade Boggs

I'm learning every day. He's been a joy to work with.

Josh Bard

We've been ripe for this to happen. We've gotten away from what we are good at.

Tom Pecora

There have been no comments from the neighbors.

Alan Lucken

I would like to leave it like it is. We would've been happy with this.

Jim Richardson

There's been no publicity about this case in months.

Robert Collins

I have never been to North Dakota, and I am looking forward to it.

Shampa Rice

It was tough, and it's still tough. It would have been tough on anybody.

Richard Childress

It's been the least successful year of his presidency.

Stephen Wayne

We've been able to run some offensive plays already.

Clara Kassel

We have done this for two years now and it has always been very successful and professionally done.

Cindy Adams

There have been no train wrecks.

Jim Hoppe

That will be the largest the jackpot has ever been.

Tina Potthoff

She has been huge. Offensively, she brings it every night.

Jeff Gaucher

The stock has been an absolute monster; this was a reality check.

Aram Rubinson

It?s been a tough site for whatever reason.

John Doughty

Getting Michele back has definitely been a plus.

Carolyn Hunter

It will be unusual not to see Coach wearing the hat, he's been wearing it so long.

Jarron Collins

She's been baking for a month at least.

Sister Mary Paul

It has always been about value and convenience.

Sean Bersell

The response to this new Emmy Award has been phenomenal.

Peter Price

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

The response has been overwhelmingly positive.

Bob Denham

It must have been a terrifying ride.

Barb Maynes

Whitehall behaves as if the computer had never been invented.

Stephen Joseph

There have been a number of people who have said, 'We've heard it all before,'?

Michael Chapman

This is one of their key new products in pre-market approval, and here they've been put into the penalty box for PMA approvals.

Thom Gunderson

They've been reusing wood since right after the Civil War. This is not a new thing.

James Dunn

Our demands have not really been met.

Lise Prunier

If one person would have had all this, that would have been trafficking quantities.

George Kajtsa

For eight years, we'd been waiting to hear that.

Marilyn Smith

There's not too many people that have been actually able to beat him the last two years or so.

Lleyton Hewitt

I've been coaching 14 years, and that's never happened before.

Anthony Bozzella

It's been better than we expected. We're profitable after only two months.

Jeff Wright

We've been here [semifinals] a few times.

Joel Trickey

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

Brigitte Bardot

...If he had come back to court, there would have been no problem.

John Magaw

That is our primary objective and it has been since this incident occurred.

Kurt Schaefer

Art has never been a popularity contest.

James Levine

It's been a mission.

Nancy Collins

Of course it has been a failure. If it was a success, we wouldn't have come to this.

Guan Yi

I don't see there has been any progress as far as incubating new businesses.

Bill Forsyth

What we're doing is nothing more than what we've been doing for the last 20 years.

Harvey Jewett

He's been out in the community for 42 years.

Jennifer Faliero

I said I'd rather have furniture, not a honeymoon. But we've been on a lot of honeymoons since then.

Genevieve Pileggi

We have spoken to her, and she's been cooperative and answered our questions at this stage.

James Walters

Because we've been drilling, drilling and drilling them (in practice), there's only so much you can do.

Russ Halverson

Just think when she?s been there four.

Deanna Persson

People who have been pro-choice.

Ted Haggard

Not everything in my life has been pretty.

Frances Newton

Our patrons have always been very understanding. We think they will be for this one, too.

Pam Lingor

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Anatole France

All issues have been sorted out and a decision has been taken.

Praful Patel

It's been an adjustment. I'm learning everyday I play.

Kyle Miller

We've actually been offered more help than we can accept at this time, because we're not settled.

Sherrine Dupre

These are animals that have been trained to kill. This is a blood sport.

Margo Castorena

They keep doing a very good job. They've been very reliable.

Rick Renteria

It's just been overwhelming -- the support for this.

Ron Gillett

We've been happy with him since his win in the St Leger and he's in good form.

Aidan O'brien

We have always been dreamers in Montana.

Brian Schweitzer

She's been through it. I admire her perseverance.

Amy Stephens

I've never seen this kind of anger. I've [been called] a lot of names.

Patricia Vance

If they testify, and we've been promised that, it is going to be one for the ages.

Michael Wynne

It was the most enjoyable match I've been associated with.

Betty Wroubel

Technology has been, and always will be, my one true passion professionally.

John Mckinley

The army is assisting the police and a curfew has been imposed.

Haz Iwendi

Me and Luke have been rivals since the eighth grade.

Jeff Sanders

We've been together ever since.

Deb Millington

I can legally do all the things I have been doing.

Michael Sanders

It's been a slowly building situation, ... and there's a lot of pressure on them to come up with something that will work.

Stacey Lynn Koerner

There have been some parallels. Although, I think every year is different.

Amy Patton

We've just really been busy with phone calls.

Jeanne Pyle

It's always been in our plans to have a West Coast presence.

Peter Falvey

I have already been over there to check it out, to see what we are getting into.

Rick Nelson

The tickets have been sorted out.

Joe Ramos

All those missing have now been recovered.

Rudi Zeif

The image of NSA has been muddied considerably by this revelation.

Matthew Aid

She has been a really great leader on and off the field.

Laura Odorczyk

We've been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I've been going there since I was 6 years old. But they're going to have a whole new New Orleans than what we did. It will never be the same.

Shawna Graham

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

Paul Valery

I've been doing this for 45 years and I'm still amazed at what I find out.

Carlton Funn

Kelly has been here before. She didn't want her season to end.

Christine Labombard

My thoughts have been focused on other things.

Matt Smaby

It should probably have been checked out better.

Karen Harris

Peaches have been our backbone. They always will be.

David Richard Jones

I think it helps that I have been there. I won't have the jitters I had last year.

Jesse Williams

We've been striving to make this for quite a while.

Chris Chambers

Not sure that the rebels have been defeated yet.

Walter Rodgers

To me, Alfredsson has been our best player.

Mats Naslund

Science is becoming more pervasive and invasive than it has ever been before.

Susan Greenfield

Never before has there been such a flurry of legislative activity on the issue.

Adam Sharp

He won't be as powerful as he once was. He will have been tainted by scandal.

Richard Semiatin

He said he's been in Thailand. He'd rather be in Thailand. He said, 'Anything but here.

Lorrie Thomas

Now rule out the possibility that he has been killed by the kidnappers.

Daniel Pearl

If it had been a year it would have been too soon. But, it's been a little while.

Herman Moore

The impacts of this past winter have been cumulative.

Linda Dougherty

He's hit a lot of shots like that since he's been here. I kind of had a feeling he would hit it.

Robert Hite

We've blended Ruth in the mix quickly. It's seems like she's been there all along.

Kelly Packard

It's just a communications problem we've been dealing with.

Ginger Davis

Our offense has been almost non-existent. Some way, we've got to find life in the bats.

Steve Jump

Many Times Been Loved, and Many Times Been Bitten.

Led Zeppelin

It was a good team win. We had good balance which has been one of our strengths all year.

Brian Roper

This world would have been much better off had your mother aborted your demon soul.

Jeffrey Davis

It's the biggest thing I've ever been involved with.

Robert Gilmore

Our altar has never been adorned more beautifully than it is with these people seeking the sanctuary of God.

Jim Morrison

J has been very consistent for us after he struggled a little bit early on in the season.

Russ Hellickson

We're just grateful that we go out with our lives. It could have been far worse.

Michelle Hall

Things have also been slowing down a little in Boston.

David Stiff

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

Things are better than they ever have been, ... At least they were before Katrina.

Carol Brown

It's a building that we've been watching.

Neill Coleman

The best thing to say is that we have been consistent.

Bob Schnure

It has been about a 2.1 mill increase each year.

William Porter

It?s really the systematic approach that?s been taken.

Lewis Wade

That's been our trademark. We held on. Antilles had the momentum.

Donald Bough

Had you been drinking at all that night?

Janet Wu

They should have disclosed that all along. They should never have been calling them gluten-free.

Jillian Williams

Never clear our names, after what's been done to us.

John Ramsey

I could never bear to be buried with people to whom I had not been introduced.

Norman Parkinson

This is monumental for me. I've been waiting so long for this.

Chris Feldman

His play has been superb during that time.

Joe Sanchez

Our customers have been here forever.

Keith Hall

Brooks is a good pilot. He has been a pilot for years. I'd fly with him again tomorrow.

John Clarke

We've been together a long time. She has an extensive background.

Superintendent Marion Martinez

I've been dancing since I was about 3 or 4.

Brian Bailey

We probably should have been more organized.

Josh Thomas

It's really been flourishing year after year. It's getting to be a big thing.

Chris Baxter

It's been very hard, very difficult.

Robert Ford

We've been fairly steady over all the years.

Mason Malmuth

We didn't play well defensively. It's been our downfall all year.

Mark Krause

We've been united. But I didn't think it was going to get this big.

Chad Millard

He has been excellent since the start of the season and bailed us out here.

Des Mckeown

I didn't want to go, because I'd been in prison.

James Helton

There have been some big positives already.

Michael Krensavage

We're meeting (the goals) we have been expecting to meet.

Neil Steinberg

Some people say they have lost their animals. But it could have been a lot worse.

Wanda Clark

It was a great win for us. They have been playing very well.

Jim Tufts

He's been great to be around. But it still seems a little funny.

Mike Pelfrey

His attitude has been outstanding. I've never sat and wondered about where his focus was.

Paul Maurice

The community has been very supportive. It's much more than what I expected.

Kristi Schulmeister

It could have been 30 seconds. It could have been an hour.

Joe Lay

We're much more coordinated and centralized than we have been in the past.

Bill Turner

It's been about ethnicity and political payback, not the constitution.

Maina Kiai

For the most part we've been balanced with our scoring and that has helped us spread the ball around.

Barry Dutt

This is the day we have been waiting for. Not only waiting for, but working for.

Simon Garang

We have been collecting yield data since 1996.

Steve Wik