For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'. Votes: 4
John Greenleaf WhittierNo star is lost once we have seen, We always may be what we might have been. Votes: 2
Adelaide Anne ProcterWe can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely Votes: 2
C. S. LewisIf you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. Votes: 2
Robert H. SchullerIf the afternoon had been blue, there might have been less desire. Votes: 0
Carlos Drummond de AndradeDid you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper? Votes: 0
Robert OrbenTheir faces were clay-coloured and featureless, yet not stupid; they might have been shrewd turnips. Votes: 0
Rebecca WestIf Mozart had power tools, there's no telling how great his music might have been. Votes: 0
Dave BarryLook in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell; Votes: 0
Dante Gabriel RossettiIt might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny. Votes: 0
Carlos Ruiz ZafonIt's been really nice to see different counties that I might never have visited before. Votes: 0
Parminder NagraCaroline Waverly: Sometimes we hurt more for what might have been than for what is. Votes: 0
Nora RobertsIf he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music. Votes: 0
Maurice RavelWe are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been... Votes: 0
Charles LambChrist, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer Votes: 0
Florence NightingaleYou might have to lose control before you could find out what you'd been missing. Votes: 0
Jodi PicoultThe world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been. Votes: 0
Alfred Lord TennysonThe saddest thing of word or pen, To know the things that might have been. Votes: 0
John Greenleaf WhittierAh, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me! Votes: 0
Fernando PessoaAs she realized what might have been, she grew to be thankful for what was. Votes: 0
Elizabeth GaskellThere is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultI don't work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister. Votes: 0
Ken LivingstoneI might have been curious about actors' lives when I was growing up. That's human nature. Votes: 0
Michael FassbenderFeel good about yourself. You have been blessed and you might not have even realized it. Votes: 0
Michael JacksonAll I asked for was equality and independence. A rotating chairmanship might have been the answer. Votes: 0
D. J. EnrightPeople might have the impression I had an easy life, but it's been anything but that. Votes: 0
Alana StewartApart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real. Votes: 0
Jasper FfordeYou can't afford to think about what might have been. You just be aware of what is. Votes: 0
Noel GallagherThey might as well have been trying to fit a squirrel through the eye of a needle. Votes: 0
Maya BodeA play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been. Votes: 0
Tony KushnerI think I might have been stupid in some respects, it if weren't for my psychedelic experiences. Votes: 0
Kary MullisThere's no point dwelling on what might or could have been. You just have to go forward. Votes: 0
Jack NicholsonI felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system. Votes: 0
Bob DylanCaine might have smiled at her, had his heart not been breaking to smithereens inside of him." Votes: 0
V.S. CarnesMight you be missing opportunities because you have been too quick to ask how instead of why? Votes: 0
John C. MaxwellYou might be a redneck if you have been fired from a construction job because of your appearance. Votes: 0
Jeff FoxworthyBe what you are becoming without clinging to what you might have been; what you might yet be. Votes: 0
Luce IrigarayNo real lady would let a dress that might have been worn by a stranger touch her skin. Votes: 0
Cassandra ClareIf it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiNo star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been. Votes: 0
Adelaide Anne ProcterYou are nobody, and I might have been somebody, and the road to each of us is love. Votes: 0
John FanteHad I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them. Votes: 0
Carl JungIf we are ever to become what we might have been, we must cease being who we've become. Votes: 0
Wendell JohnsonI have been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say. Votes: 0
Artie LangeWe can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is. Votes: 0
Terry GoodkindIf penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man. Votes: 0
Peter SingerWe might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing. Votes: 0
Letitia Elizabeth LandonBut let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole. Votes: 0
Kate DiCamilloI might have been born in a hovel, but I determined to travel with the wind and the stars. Votes: 0
Jacqueline CochranIt might have been really cool back in the '50s when it was less populated but I don't know. Votes: 0
John LeguizamoI might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars. Votes: 0
Jacqueline CochranI do not look back at what might have been. If I did that, playing golf would drive me crazy. Votes: 0
Tiger WoodsMight have been a time when I loved her too but you take that away and you'll always be the one. Votes: 0
DrakeYou'd make an enemy out of me over a human?" The word "human" might as well have been "rodent. Votes: 0
Nalini SinghYou do what you do and you pay for your sins and there's no such thing as what might have been. Votes: 0
Tim McGrawIf I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less. Votes: 0
Lily Tomlin