Geoffrey Beene Quotes

“Design is an unknown.”

“Design is an unknown.”

“You play it safe and all you end up with is a lifetime of should-have-beens.”

“He hadn't done it, and there was no point thinking about might-have-beens”

“For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.”

“The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.”

“She shook off the self-recrimination. What-ifs and could-have-beens were not the way to move forward. She knew that from experience.”

“I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.”

“If you suffer misfortune … do you damnedest to ignore it. Wallowing in what-might-have-beens and what-could have-happeneds will only keep your emotional wounds festering.”

“He shrugs. "Doesn't help to waste my time thinking about would've-beens."Laila whispers, "He says to the girl with a mind full of them.”

“Do we miss not only the past but every future the lost past describes? Is that just the nature of missing? All the lost might-have-beens? The certainty that those uncertain futures are gone?”