1.
We are what we are because we have been what we have been.
Sigmund Freud
'Our present situation is a result of our past experiences.'
2.
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
In order to discern our future, we must not only recall the past, but also comprehend it.
3.
If the environment were a bank, it would have been saved by now
Bernie Sanders
If the planet were a financial institution, it would have already been safeguarded.
4.
If I have succeeded better than many who surround me, it has been chiefly - may I say almost solely - from universal assiduity.
John Dalton
If I have outdone many of my peers, it has predominantly - perhaps exclusively - been due to unwavering diligence.
5.
Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
Jimmy Page
'Music has been a constant companion through my life, never failing to deliver.'
6.
It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
Claude Monet
7.
The Universe, wrought for us by a supremely good and orderly Creator.
Nicolaus Copernicus
The Cosmos, masterfully crafted by a profoundly benevolent and organized Architect.
9.
The word impossible has been and must remain deleted from our dictionary.
Ingvar Kamprad
10.
To get rid of predestination we have been willing to degrade our God into a godling.
B. B. Warfield
11.
I didn't become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
Claude Monet
12.
Heaven has appointed me to rule all the nations, for hitherto there has been no order upon the steppes.
Genghis Khan
13.
The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred.
Soichiro Honda
14.
As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.
Anne Sexton
15.
I'm no actor and I never have been. What people see on the screen is me.
Clark Gable
16.
...but what has been said once can always be repeated.
Zeno of Elea
17.
The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and of the oppressed.
Thomas Huxley
18.
You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.
Franz Schubert
19.
We are not alone in the universe. They have been coming here for a long time.
Edgar Mitchell
20.
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.
Alice Paul
21.
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.
Bette Davis
22.
Xbox has been created by gamers for gamers.
Don Mattrick
23.
Stop. Stop everything. Then you will realize you are the freedom you have been searching for.
H. W. L. Poonja
24.
I'd like to fly, but my wings have been so denied.
Layne Staley
25.
Clearly, there has been a lack of imagination about how much can go wrong.
Rachel Maddow
28.
Ali always said I would be nothing without him, but who would he have been without me?
Joe Frazier
29.
In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed.
Bhumibol Adulyadej
30.
Music Has Been There For Me When No One Else Was And The Only Thing That Stays When Everyone Else Leaves
Kid Cudi
31.
I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
Kamisese Mara
32.
Faith is what is left after all your beliefs have been blown to hell.
Ram Dass
33.
Nobody is an overnight success. Most overnight successes you see have been working at it for ten years.
David Heinemeier Hansson
35.
I have been unsure, from the start, what the Occupy movement was all about, although I did suspect that it was just fatuous, anti-enterprise, left-wingery.
Nigel Farage
36.
My faith always has been and always will be important to me.
Aretha Franklin
37.
Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
William Congreve
38.
For all that has been, Thank you. For all that is to come, Yes!
Dag Hammarskjold
39.
When nothing was, then God was there,
Had nothing been God would have been;
My being has defeated me,
Had I not been, what would have been.
Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
40.
I love my onscreen frenemy, Dianna Agron! Having the opportunity to work so closely with her has been amazing.
Lea Michele
41.
Since Sven Goran Eriksson took over, England have been fantastic.
Franz Beckenbauer
43.
You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!
Kenneth Koch
44.
When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.
Charles Schumer
45.
As a rule, panics do not destroy capital; they merely reveal the extent to which it has been destroyed by its betrayal into hopelessly unproductive works.
John Mills
46.
You cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people have been.
Forrest Carter
47.
I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.
Franz Schubert
48.
Who can say how many lives have been saved by books?
Michelle Cliff