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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
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
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
Satan has been the best friend the church has ever had, as he has kept it in business all these years!
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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
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
The nature of compromise was that no one was happy. That's how you knew a fair deal had been reached.
— Marcus Sakey
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
It was as if real life had been canceled for the day.
— Jennifer Weiner
Willful ignorance or resistance to alleged facts has been a big ingredient in any success I've had.
— Rob Delaney
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
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
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
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
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
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
