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If the Democratic policies had been pursued over the last two or three years ... we would not have had the kind of job growth we've had. — Dick Cheney

After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation. — Ron Chernow

She would have been a very remarkable woman, if she had not been an old maid. — Thomas Nelson Page

Although people rarely died playing Quidditch, referees had been known to vanish and turn up months later in the Sahara Desert. — J.K. Rowling

She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for. — Holly Black

I would have picked up the artificial heart and thrown it on the floor and walked out and said he's dead if the press had not been there. — William DeVries

I had never realized what grand things air and sunlight are till I had been deprived of them. — Harriet Jacobs

I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day.
Whoever I had become had to die. — Craig Ferguson

It had been an expensive lesson. Don't break up with people when they're in your home and holding onto fragile, expensive stuff. — Meghan Ciana Doidge

Ages passed I knew at last my life had never been. — Jethro Tull

I had always been told by my parents, not implicitly told, but every inference was that Britain was the hub of the universe. — Rolf Harris

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me. — LeBron James

And I knew that tone, the pleading, the fear that was sitting like a spiked ball in his chest. He'd been left behind too, maybe more than I had. — Lili St. Crow

Perhaps sunlight had always been luminous, and doorways signs of greater passage than that of one room to another. But she'd not noticed it until now. — Clive Barker

I don't see how I possibly could have come from where I entered the planet to where I am now if there had not been angels along the way. — Della Reese

Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth. — W. Somerset Maugham

Insanity had its place, and that place was generally when all the sane options had been exhausted. — Evan Currie

Perhaps he had been looking for that branching point in his life where he had stepped down the wrong path. He — Brandon Sanderson

Certain Stanley Cup traditions remain intact, including the handshake line between players who had been belting one another for a couple of weeks. — George Vecsey

Satan has been the best friend the church has ever had, as he has kept it in business all these years! — Anton Szandor LaVey

Inside was a tableau of frustration that might've been straight out of Norman Rockwell, if Norman Rockwell had painted people doing hard time in jail. — Ransom Riggs

Much has been said and continues to be said of what little concern the Turks had for the Acropolis treasures. — Melina Mercouri

His death had been as futile as his life. He died ingloriously, of a stupid disease, failing once more, even at the end, to accomplish anything. — W. Somerset Maugham

Her own fearless audacity had surprised her, though she knew she had been born for more than her life had asked of her thus far. — Donna Russo Morin

There is no point in imagining that if one had been there, one could have prevented a thing that had happened only because it had not been prevented — Alan Paton

The unwritten rule of engagement had been If it looks hostile, shoot it. — Rick Bragg

Because I figured out who I was- the man who had been born to love you. — Erin McCarthy

Having been through the muck and mire, I've had my own brush with bad choices. — Michael K. Williams

Her husband's desire had always been more to chase and capture the gleam of the person inside the body than the body itself. — Lauren Groff

I've been in the twilight of my career longer than most people have had their career. — Martina Navratilova

I looked again at the nighttime view of the city - the view I had never seen before even though it had been there all the time. — Graeme Simsion

No one would have been invited to dinner so often as Jesus was unless he were interesting and had a sense of humor. — Charles M. Schulz

I have had lots of luck in my career but there has also been a lot of hard work. — Maria Sharapova

On some occasions the bodies of the martyrs who had been devoured by wild beasts, upon the beasts being strangled, were found alive in their stomachs. — Eusebius

The nature of compromise was that no one was happy. That's how you knew a fair deal had been reached. — Marcus Sakey

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way. — Jeff Bridges

Had the Holy Spirit not been with Jesus, He would have sinned — Benny Hinn

She had been right. Why was she always right, in her own odd way? — Sarah J. Maas

Had she ever enjoyed anything? Had every day been a struggle? Perhaps death would be a release, a rest for the weary. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus. — Elizabeth I

It was as if real life had been canceled for the day. — Jennifer Weiner

I wished that I had died, it would have been better for everyone — Sue Whitaker

The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival. — Audre Lorde

Willful ignorance or resistance to alleged facts has been a big ingredient in any success I've had. — Rob Delaney

I've had two or three injuries when with England and it's been a bit bizarre. — Jamie Redknapp

Today was the day; today was the day when they would realize what Zaphod had been up to. Today was what Zaphod Beeblebrox's presidency was all about. — Douglas Adams

She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English. — Joe Hill

Representative democracy had been replaced by the surveillance camera and the private police force. — J.G. Ballard

If the inspirational calendar had been a person, Gus would have punched it in the face. — T.J. Klune

All that had been was now no more. — Pearl S. Buck

For a moment in time she had been a lady, someone who was wanted ... — Melanie Dickerson

You're everything to me, Peaches. You always have been. Always. You're the best thing I've ever had in my life." He kissed her. "You're my everything. — Sophie Jackson

A foundation that had been built of stone shifted like sand on the blowing wind. — R.A. Salvatore

Observing that, from this height, the city which had been so dark as he walked through it seemed to be on fire. — James Baldwin

Keeping busy was the only answer: action had always been his drug of choice. — Robert Galbraith

Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. — George Orwell

As I lay there, I realized I had been wrong before, this was the most wonderful moment of my life. — Patrick Rothfuss

But things had arranged themselves, as they often do, rather than been arranged by him. — Anthony Trollope

Her heart had already been broken many times over, and yet she still believed she was destined to meet the man of her life. — Paulo Coelho

You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question. — Michael Morpurgo

WarGames had been one of Halliday's all-time favorite movies. Which was why I had watched it over three dozen times. — Ernest Cline

Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there. — Charles Spurgeon

If a FIFA World Cup tournament had been held every year between 1982 and 1986, France would have won two or three. — Michel Patini

And maybe there had been enough tears, anyway. Which is not to say there wouldn't be more. — Stephen King

I had been given the greatest gift an education could provide: I had a better idea of what it meant to live a good life — Eric Greitens

I have always been a lover of the sun, even if, through spending a lifetime in Ireland, I have had little personal connection with it. — John Boyne

A shadow disappeared into one of the shops, but it could have been anyone. Nevertheless, I had the uneasy feeling that someone was following us. — Embee

And he raised his glass to her. It could have been a compliment. Or the most sarcastic gesture anyone had ever made to her. — Lisa Kleypas

she had been moping around school, not wanting to do anything besides painting and reading books. — Kim Richardson

I've never really been into ghosts or spirits, and I've only had a couple of those kind of experiences. — Rhys Darby

They have been through the fire, and what fire does not destroy, it hardens. She has had experiences. — Oscar Wilde

Is it something I said?" Jane asked. And if so, which sentence? There had been so many of them, after all. — Courtney Milan

Is this okay?"

Dex blinked. Okay? She couldn't have been any more
okay had she been dipped in marshmallow and rolled in coconut. — Amy Andrews

He looked like a kobold who had just been told that he was mythical. — Kerry Greenwood

Revolution flashed as revelationary as revelation had been revolutionary. — R. Vision

He spoke with complicity, familiarly, as though he knew me; as though his soul and mine had been waiting for each other since the beginning of time. — Maria Duenas

A flaw does not make a man worthless," Raphael had once said to Dmitri. "Else I would've been discarded long ago. — Nalini Singh

I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision. — Upton Sinclair

It had been a turning point in her life, in some sense it's most important moment; she had seen the world and retreated. — Philipp Meyer

The ref blew the whistle and the pack took off. The "jostling" from earlier had turned into a "melee" Sun Tzu would have been afraid of. — Shelly Laurenston

She was standing by the barometer, which, if it had had an ounce of sense in its head, would have been pointing to 'Stormy' instead of 'Set Fair — P.G. Wodehouse

The next day, all that stopped him from feeling pure exultance was the question: had it been too easy? — Julian Barnes

My philosophy had always been to do the leaving first. — Carey Corp

I've been fortunate to have had the opportunity to be at the forefront of the digital media revolution. — Ross Levinsohn

I realized that Sandra and I had been getting social mileage out of our children's good behavior, and, in our eyes, this son simply didn't measure up. — Stephen R. Covey

When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied. — Henry Louis Gates

There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean them out. — Shirley Jackson

Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder. — Nick Bostrom

Everyone's got intimacy issues these days, in case you hadn't noticed. He must have; the population had been dropping for decades. — Peter Watts

The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness. — John Flavel

There were valuable first editions of books in the enormous library, most of them had been scribbled in by some idiot named Will H. — Cassandra Clare

guard posts and triple fencing had been bolstered by cutting-edge instrumentation, including laser-beam "lattices — Douglas Preston

Heaven will be full of the songs of worshipers who had once been broken people in a broken world, picked up and used for God's glory. — Louie Giglio

Is this what's going to make you happy?'
'How different everything could have been, if you had thought to ask me that before. — Marissa Meyer

I've never been afraid of them. Not once. Because I had you. — Nicholas Sparks

Books had been her means of escape; now they would be her refuge. — Trenton Lee Stewart

His aim had been perfect. And perhaps if she hadn't kissed his cheek right before the jump, his balance would have been too. — Marissa Meyer

The rut I was in with the people that I had been previously been with it took the heart right out of me. — Peter Cetera

Linc had always been a leg man. Thankfully hers made up for her caustic tongue and armour plated panties — Amy Andrews

You are what you think. Before you succeed physically, it had been done mentally. The hometown of both victory and defeat is the mind of a person. — Israelmore Ayivor