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Quotes about Might have Been

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301 Written Quotes

Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be. Votes: 2

Marsha Petrie Sue

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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been. Votes: 2

Kurt Vonnegut

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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been. Votes: 2

George Eliot

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For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'. Votes: 2

John Greenleaf Whittier

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No star is lost once we have seen, We always may be what we might have been. Votes: 2

Adelaide Anne Procter

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We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely Votes: 2

C. S. Lewis

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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. Votes: 2

Robert H. Schuller

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time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present. Votes: 2

T. S. Eliot

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It's just the way things are. And you can't dwell on what might have been. You have to look at what is. Votes: 2

Sophie Kinsella

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National Socialism is what Marxism might have been if it could have broken its absurd and artificial ties with the democratic order. Votes: 2

Adolf Hitler

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The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides. Votes: 2

Robert E. Lee

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To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been. Votes: 2

Chester Barnard

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We can't afford to waste tears on might-have-beens. We need to turn the tears into sweat that can take us to what can be. Votes: 2

Denis Waitley

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It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness. Votes: 2

Jerry Garcia

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When the tides of life turn against you And the current upsets your boat, Don't waste those tears on what might have been, Just lie on your back and float. Votes: 2

Edward Norton

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He had been alone in the world and empty for so long. But she filled him full, and so he believed everything that had been taken out of him might have been for a purpose. To clear space for something better. Votes: 2

Charles Frazier

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George McGovern, for all his mistakes... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been, if we could have kept it out of the hands of greedy little hustlers like Richard Nixon, Votes: 2

Hunter S. Thompson

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I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are. Votes: 2

Milton Berle

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Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise. Votes: 2

Lewis Carroll

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All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of mutual possession might have been assuaged only by our actually imbibing and assimilating every particle of each other's soul and flesh; but there we were, unable even to mate as slum children would have so easily found an opportunity to do so. Votes: 2

Vladimir Nabokov

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Theology, by diverting the attention of men from this life to another, and by endeavoring to coerce all men into one religion, constantly preaching that this world is full of misery, but the next world would be beautiful - or not, as the case may be - has forced on men the thought of fear where otherwise there might have been the happy abandon of nature. Votes: 2

Elbert Hubbard

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Another occupation might have been better. Votes: 0

F. H. Bradley

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What might have been can be with Cosmic Ordering. Votes: 0

Stephen Richards

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I don't think anything might have been. What is, is. Votes: 0

Edward Gorey

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But the might-have-been is but boggy ground to build upon. Votes: 0

Herman Melville

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We might have been a free and great people together. Votes: 0

Thomas Jefferson

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Hilary Clinton might have been a better pick than me. Votes: 0

Joe Biden

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Truth may have been found but might never be known. Votes: 0

Kedar Joshi

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Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen. Votes: 0

Robert Bresson

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Life is too short to dwell on what might have been. Votes: 0

Hillary Clinton

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No man is obliged to be what he might have been. Votes: 0

David Berlinski

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It might have been the hardest hit I took all day. Votes: 0

Drew Brees

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If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever. Votes: 0

Sally Field

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Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been. Votes: 0

Arthur Ransome

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The hardest memories are the pieces of what might have been. Votes: 0

Deborah Smith

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It is never too late to be what you might have been. Votes: 0

George Eliot

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I wasn't Barbie-obsessed. I think my mother might have been my Barbie. Votes: 0

Michael Kors

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But still my fancy wanders free Through that which might have been. Votes: 0

Thomas Love Peacock

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If the afternoon had been blue, there might have been less desire. Votes: 0

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

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What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed. Votes: 0

Edward Gorey

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Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time. Votes: 0

Ian Fleming

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Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long. Votes: 0

Ogden Nash

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That shot might not have been as good as it might have been Votes: 0

John Motson

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In another time, in another place, I wonder who they might have been. Votes: 0

Lauren DeStefano

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God might have been either drunk or naughty when he was creating women. Votes: 0

M.F. Moonzajer

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Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for what might have been Votes: 0

Arthur Ransome

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My rest might have been blissful enough, only a sad heart broke it. Votes: 0

Charlotte Bronte

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Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long. Votes: 0

Ogden Nash

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If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer. Votes: 0

Agnes Varda

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I might have been born just plain white trash / but Fancy was my name. Votes: 0

Reba McEntire

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God will turn the might have been into a wonderful culture for the future. Votes: 0

Oswald Chambers

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Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper? Votes: 0

Robert Orben

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The information-deprived general populace might have been surprised this week to see a lower paycheck. Votes: 0

Monica Crowley

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Their faces were clay-coloured and featureless, yet not stupid; they might have been shrewd turnips. Votes: 0

Rebecca West

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If Mozart had power tools, there's no telling how great his music might have been. Votes: 0

Dave Barry

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Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell; Votes: 0

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny. Votes: 0

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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It's been really nice to see different counties that I might never have visited before. Votes: 0

Parminder Nagra

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Caroline Waverly: Sometimes we hurt more for what might have been than for what is. Votes: 0

Nora Roberts

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If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music. Votes: 0

Maurice Ravel

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We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been... Votes: 0

Charles Lamb

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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer Votes: 0

Florence Nightingale

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You might have to lose control before you could find out what you'd been missing. Votes: 0

Jodi Picoult

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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been. Votes: 0

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been. Votes: 0

Kurt Vonnegut

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The saddest thing of word or pen, To know the things that might have been. Votes: 0

John Greenleaf Whittier

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Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me! Votes: 0

Fernando Pessoa

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As she realized what might have been, she grew to be thankful for what was. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Gaskell

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There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been. Votes: 0

Robert Breault

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It is never too late to be who you might have been. It is always possible Votes: 0

Steve Miller

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I don't work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister. Votes: 0

Ken Livingstone

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I might have been curious about actors' lives when I was growing up. That's human nature. Votes: 0

Michael Fassbender

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Feel good about yourself. You have been blessed and you might not have even realized it. Votes: 0

Michael Jackson

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So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born. Votes: 0

Emily Carr

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All I asked for was equality and independence. A rotating chairmanship might have been the answer. Votes: 0

D. J. Enright

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People might have the impression I had an easy life, but it's been anything but that. Votes: 0

Alana Stewart

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Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real. Votes: 0

Jasper Fforde

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You can't afford to think about what might have been. You just be aware of what is. Votes: 0

Noel Gallagher

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They might as well have been trying to fit a squirrel through the eye of a needle. Votes: 0

Maya Bode

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A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been. Votes: 0

Tony Kushner

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I think I might have been stupid in some respects, it if weren't for my psychedelic experiences. Votes: 0

Kary Mullis

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There's no point dwelling on what might or could have been. You just have to go forward. Votes: 0

Jack Nicholson

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I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system. Votes: 0

Bob Dylan

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Caine might have smiled at her, had his heart not been breaking to smithereens inside of him." Votes: 0

V.S. Carnes

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Might you be missing opportunities because you have been too quick to ask how instead of why? Votes: 0

John C. Maxwell

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You might be a redneck if you have been fired from a construction job because of your appearance. Votes: 0

Jeff Foxworthy

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Be what you are becoming without clinging to what you might have been; what you might yet be. Votes: 0

Luce Irigaray

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My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas. Votes: 0

Norman Lock

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No real lady would let a dress that might have been worn by a stranger touch her skin. Votes: 0

Cassandra Clare

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If it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been. Votes: 0

Adelaide Anne Procter

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You are nobody, and I might have been somebody, and the road to each of us is love. Votes: 0

John Fante

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There is that might-have-been which is the single rock we cling to above the maelstrom of unbearable reality. Votes: 0

William Faulkner

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Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them. Votes: 0

Carl Jung

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If we are ever to become what we might have been, we must cease being who we've become. Votes: 0

Wendell Johnson

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I have been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say. Votes: 0

Artie Lange

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We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is. Votes: 0

Terry Goodkind

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To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have. Votes: 0

Christopher Paolini

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Cruel, but composed and bland, Dumb, inscrutable and grand, So Tiberius might have sat, Had Tiberius been a cat. Votes: 0

Matthew Arnold

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If I make a wrong decision, I worry what might have been. I stress out over very insignificant things. Votes: 0

Courtney Barnett

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If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man. Votes: 0

Peter Singer

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Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been. Votes: 0

Stephen Levine

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Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist. Votes: 0

Richard Dawkins

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If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments. Votes: 0

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing. Votes: 0

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole. Votes: 0

Kate DiCamillo

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I might have been born in a hovel, but I determined to travel with the wind and the stars. Votes: 0

Jacqueline Cochran

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No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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There's a tradition of reenactment in documentary which is about sort of illustrating what the past might have been like. Votes: 0

Joshua Oppenheimer

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The Scandinavians are dear people but they've never been what you might call bywords for wit and sparkle, have they? Votes: 0

Kingsley Amis

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Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They may all collapse altogether. Votes: 0

George Santayana

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The Mahabharata might have been a great and heroic battle, but there are no winners. The losers, of course, lose. Votes: 0

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me. Votes: 0

Aldrich Ames

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But in another world, another life, probably growing up in another country, I might have been more of a dancer. Votes: 0

Hugh Jackman

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It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been. Votes: 0

Christopher Reeve

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Sometimes it seems that we might have been happier if we had once had an aristocracy to blame everything on. Votes: 0

Anatole Broyard

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By taking the time to explore charged memories in therapy we might uncover feelings that have been buried for decades. Votes: 0

Tara Brach

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The way we have been playing, I might tell my players not to cross the picket line (umpire strike of 1979). Votes: 0

Whitey Herzog

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He was in the right place at the right time, but he might have been elsewhere on a different afternoon. Votes: 0

Tony Gubba

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It might have been really cool back in the '50s when it was less populated but I don't know. Votes: 0

John Leguizamo

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I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars. Votes: 0

Jacqueline Cochran

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A lot of prizes have been awarded for showing the universe is not as simple as we might have thought. Votes: 0

Stephen Hawking

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I do not look back at what might have been. If I did that, playing golf would drive me crazy. Votes: 0

Tiger Woods

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I am heartbroken, but I have been heartbroken before, and this might be the best for which I can hope. Votes: 0

Daniel Handler

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You can't dwell on what might have been...and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done. Votes: 0

Wendelin Van Draanen

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Might have been a time when I loved her too but you take that away and you'll always be the one. Votes: 0

Drake

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You'd make an enemy out of me over a human?" The word "human" might as well have been "rodent. Votes: 0

Nalini Singh

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You do what you do and you pay for your sins and there's no such thing as what might have been. Votes: 0

Tim McGraw

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Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness. Votes: 0

Gilbert Highet

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When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood about what might have been. Votes: 0

Dave Davies

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I was a protestor. I was such a protestor that I regularly protested things that might have been good for me. Votes: 0

Maria Dahvana Headley

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If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body. Votes: 0

Alison Bechdel

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I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet. Votes: 0

Damian Lewis

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Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward. Votes: 0

John Steinbeck

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I was a baby when I came into the world--otherwise I might have been smart enough to become a different person. Votes: 0

Frank Wedekind

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He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn't as hopless a thing as it might have been. Votes: 0

Patricia Briggs

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No second chance?" A wry smile twisted Carrick's lips. "There might have been, had I not waited so long to take it. Votes: 0

Nora Roberts

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I'd love to have been born into a wealthy family. I might have turned out even more marvellous than I am now... Votes: 0

John Lydon

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Who knows what kind of life I might have had had I not been fortunate enough to have the parents I've had. Votes: 0

James MacArthur

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Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living. Votes: 0

Tom O'Connor

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Yes, I am white now,' said Gandalf. 'Indeed I am Saruman, one might almost say, Saruman as he should have been. Votes: 0

J. R. R. Tolkien

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Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints... Votes: 0

John Smith

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I have never been motivated by money in my life. You can't make choices based on what the financial return might be. Votes: 0

Stephen Daldry

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Tucker strokes my hair. There's something so tender about the gesture. It might as well have been him whispering I love you. Votes: 0

Cynthia Hand

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Clay is so young and has been misled by the wrong people... He might as well have joined the Ku Klux Klan. Votes: 0

Floyd Patterson

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You have been created in order that you might make a difference. You have within you the power to change the world. Votes: 0

Andy Andrews

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All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born. Votes: 0

Vladimir Nabokov

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In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse. Votes: 0

Amelia Barr

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One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have. Votes: 0

Joyce Meyer

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For by my glee might many men have laughed, And of my weeping may something have been left, Which must die now. Votes: 0

Wilfred Owen

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Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road. Votes: 0

Dolly Parton

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Boethius might have been styled happy, if that precarious epithet could be safely applied before the last term of the life of man. Votes: 0

Edward Gibbon

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Why the histories of states should have so persistently insinuated themselves in the place that might have been occupied by peoples merits reflection. Votes: 0

James C. Scott

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If 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

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At a certain age [...] you start thinking you might have learned something when you were young if you hadn't already been so smart. Votes: 0

Mark Jenkins

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The one thing that might have stopped San Bernardino, that might have stopped 9/11 would have been stricter controls on those who came here. Votes: 0

Ted Cruz

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I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us. Votes: 0

Anselm Kiefer

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If I had been a winger, I might have been daydreaming and thinking about how to keep my kit clean for next week. Votes: 0

Bill Beaumont

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But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been. Votes: 0

Paul Auster

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"Because if I hadn't been so afraid of everyone else, I might have told Hannah that someone cared. And Hannah might still be alive. Votes: 0

Jay Asher

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Ya know, Hitler was this evil, evil man. But with the World Bank and Israel manipulating America, he might have been on to something... Votes: 0

Zach Braff

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Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us. Votes: 0

George Carlin

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One woman and one man might have been OK in your grandmother's day, but who wants to marry your grandmother? Not even your grandfather! Votes: 0

Groucho Marx

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I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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what might once have been called whining is now exalted as a process of asserting selfhood; self-absorption is regarded as a form of self-expression ... Votes: 0

Wendy Kaminer

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She was simply Asha, a woman on her own. Had the situation been otherwise, she might not have come to know her own brain. Votes: 0

Katherine Boo

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Had I been more responsible I might have made something of myself as a junk bond trader, long-haul trucker or perhaps a plumbing contractor. Votes: 0

Brock Yates

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I've been told it's hard to write about singing. I didn't realize that going into it. I might not have tried if I knew! Votes: 0

Alexander Chee

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If I could take a punch like that, I might have been able to think up a name besides George for all my sons. Votes: 0

George Foreman

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I became so attentive to the souls of other people that I was not as attentive as I might have been to my own. Votes: 0

Barbara Brown Taylor

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If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur. Votes: 0

Pablo Picasso

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If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk. Votes: 0

Steve Carell

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I might not have been President if it hadn't been for school music. Learning improves in school environments where there are comprehensive music programs. Votes: 0

William J. Clinton

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I don't want to live the rest of my life thinking about you and dreaming of what might have been. Stay with me, Allie. Votes: 0

Nicholas Sparks

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You might have been paid back enough to suit you" I said, "but I don't know if you've been paid back enough to suit me. Votes: 0

Charlaine Harris

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He shook my hand and said goodbye with a sentence that might have been either good advice or a threat: "Take good care of yourself. Votes: 0

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been. Votes: 0

Edgar Allan Poe

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You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see. Votes: 0

Richard Martin Stern

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The key to the match might have been his serving. Maybe I should have concentrated harder on watching them go by me, I don't know. Votes: 0

Andy Roddick

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... Besides it's better to have Miyoshi around. You and me have a been together since Jr. High. Without her around people might think we're gay. Votes: 0

Tsugumi Ohba

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Well, sure, but I don't bring God into it. I think shower massage might have been invented by the devil. God invented the missionary position. Votes: 0

Janet Evanovich

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I wandered through the streets thinking of all the things I might have said and might have done had I been other than I was. Votes: 0

Erich Maria Remarque

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He had been my almost. My might-have-been. I was afraid of what I wanted most - His kiss. Still, I collected kiss stories. -Susie Salmon Votes: 0

Alice Sebold

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He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic. Votes: 0

Colum McCann

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Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been there are totally unacceptable. Votes: 0

Mikhail Saakashvili

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I guess nothing puts a damper on a one-night stand as much as your friend pointing out all the opportunities where you might have been killed. Votes: 0

Mindy Kaling

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Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been there are totally unacceptable. Votes: 0

Mikheil Saakashvili

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When you draw a western correctly, you create such drama, such dilemma that you think you almost don't want to admit who you might have been. Votes: 0

Kevin Costner

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I've been praying that we might have a spiritual awakening. But I think that becomes possible as individuals surrender their lives fresh and anew to Christ. Votes: 0

Billy Graham

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James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathematicians of his time had he not been absolutely wanting in the power of continuous work. Votes: 0

Simon Newcomb

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Had I been a man I might have explored the Poles or climbed Mount Everest, but as it was my spirit found outlet in the air. . . . Votes: 0

Amy Johnson

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An emotion that lives with me is a sense of 'what might have been' had injuries not robbed me of my most lethal weapon - speed. Votes: 0

Michael Owen

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An emotion that lives with me is a sense of what might have been had injuries not robbed me of my most lethal weapon - speed. Votes: 0

Michael Owen

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She gave me this look " she might have been watching from a lifeboat as the ship went down. Or maybe it was the other way around. Votes: 0

Haruki Murakami

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So much paperwork to read! So much paperwork to push away! So much paperwork to pretend he hadn't received and that might have been eaten by gargoyles. Votes: 0

Terry Pratchett

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You should never start thinking about 'what might have been,' and you should also never start thinking about another boy when you're heartbroken over someone else. Votes: 0

Lauren Barnholdt

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You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost. Votes: 0

Francis Ford Coppola

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Tragedy was like that, a razor that sliced through time, severing the now from the before, incising the what-might-have-been from reality as cleanly as any surgeon's blade. Votes: 0

Kristin Hannah

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The notion that I might have been able to court friends, win attention, conjure it, would have spoiled it for me. Unbidden love was what I wanted. Votes: 0

Edmund White

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It's odd to think we might have been Sun, moon and stars unto each other; Only I turned down one little street As you went up another. Votes: 0

Fannie Heaslip Lea

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I am too old to have ever been very worried about what "genre" any given book of mine might be. I read everything. I am easily amused. Votes: 0

Margaret Atwood

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The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner. Votes: 0

Francis Bacon

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If Jana had been given to putting her thoughts into words, she might have told Laxmi that without someone to love,there was no reason to live. Votes: 0

Anne McCaffrey

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what I remember is the silence in spite of the noise. In my head it might just as well have been a snowy day in the country. Votes: 0

Douglas Coupland

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I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be. Votes: 0

Janet Jackson

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I have read of women who have been strongly, grandly brave. Sometimes I have dreamed that I might be brave. The possibilities of this life are magnificent. Votes: 0

Mary MacLane

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I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics. Votes: 0

Richard M. Nixon

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So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been. Votes: 0

Marian Wright Edelman

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The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Votes: 0

Frederick Buechner

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But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it. Votes: 0

Geoffrey Rush

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There might have been a period around 'Tango & Cash' when I was nearly fashionable. My problem is that my weight's always been changing for the movies I'm in. Votes: 0

Sylvester Stallone

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Hill Street Blues might have been the first television show that had a memory. One episode after another was part of a cumulative experience shared by the audience. Votes: 0

Steven Bochco

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Society might have been better off without them, but we are supposed to look after the disadvantaged, and so we do it. But it doesn't help the society. Votes: 0

Gerry Harvey

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I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, 'That's a pretty little thing,' after I had finished a picture. Votes: 0

Edgar Degas

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Had PoincarÃ© been as strong in practical science as he was in theoretical he might have made a fourth with the incomparable three, Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss. Votes: 0

Eric Temple Bell

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No one so dislikes being punished unjustly as the person who might have been punished justly on scores of previous occasions, if he had only been found out. Votes: 0

P. G. Wodehouse

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In the birthing process, you come out just realizing how stupid and weak men are! I mean, I might as well not have been in there, we're useless! Votes: 0

Heath Ledger

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Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been. Votes: 0

Mickey Mantle

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Becka might have been average in L.A., but average in L.A. is Queen of Mars in the visiting room of a federal penitentiary in North Carolina. Votes: 0

Kelly Link

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I was attracted to the strangeness of his mind as a psychiatrist might have been drawn to an interesting case. he wanted a resident analyst. Neither of us understood. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Harrower

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Ah, in this world, where every guiding thread Ends suddenly in the one sure centre, death, The visionary hand of Might-have-been Alone can fill Desire's cup to the brim! Votes: 0

James Russell Lowell

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This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen. Votes: 0

Albert Claude

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Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem. Votes: 0

Thomas Sowell

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Their devotion had never been put to any serious test, and might not have withstood one; their love for God was based in their satisfaction with the status quo. Votes: 0

Ted Chiang

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When I cut myself I feel so much better. All the little things that might have been annoying me suddenly seem so trivial, because I'm concentrating on the pain Votes: 0

Richey Edwards

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You might have been able to fool people the first time, or something, but you really can't make a successful sequel today unless people really, really liked the predecessor. Votes: 0

Neal H. Moritz

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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right. Votes: 0

Sam Hunt

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One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time acquiring a different perspective on the present. Votes: 0

Robert Harris

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If some nuclear properties of the heavy elements had been a little different from what they turned out to be, it might have been impossible to build a bomb. Votes: 0

Emilio G. Segre

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I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular. Votes: 0

Jackie Stewart

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I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own. Votes: 0

Winston Churchill

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If I had been born one or two hundred years ago, I might have been a sculptor, but photography is a very quick way to see, to make sculpture. Votes: 0

Robert Mapplethorpe

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If, of all words of tongue and pen,The saddest are, 'It might have been,'More sad are these we daily see:'It is, but hadn't ought to be. Votes: 0

Bret Harte

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Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution. Votes: 0

Maya Angelou

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If, of all words of tongue and pen,The saddest are, 'It might have been,'More sad are these we daily see:'It is, but hadn't ought to be." Votes: 0

Bret Harte

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I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes. Votes: 0

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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If other cows with mad cow disease were slaughtered, we wouldn't know where to begin looking for people who might have been affected, .. With a comprehensive tracking system, we would. Votes: 0

Charles Schumer

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Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least. Votes: 0

B. F. Skinner

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Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse. Votes: 0

Norman Wisdom

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I don't want to show deleted scenes. I don't like an audience looking at what the movie might have been - if it's in the movie, it's in the movie. Votes: 0

Kevin Spacey

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If there'd been a better-balanced society, where there were other ways of making a decent living, I think it might have been different. That's not the way this setup work. Votes: 0

W. S. Merwin

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One night Roger was in a foul mood and he threw his entire bloody drumset across the stage. The thing only just missed me - I might have been killed. Votes: 0

Freddie Mercury

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We might have been better off if the question of Obama's patriotism had been raised before he was first elected. Never should we ignore so many red flag warnings again. Votes: 0

Thomas Sowell

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... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been Votes: 0

Louisa May Alcott

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She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been Votes: 0

Paul Simon

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I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted - if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible. Votes: 0

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

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If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma. Votes: 0

Harold Ramis

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The Jersey Shore is the kind of place where the policeman has a little cottage that might have been in the family for years and many other people call home. Votes: 0

Bruce Springsteen

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Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be. Votes: 0

Hillary Clinton

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The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and cleared its throat and struck six times. Votes: 0

William Faulkner

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Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is. Votes: 0

Lucinda Williams

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With 'Fellow Travelers,' I think I was consciously trying to imagine what my own life as a gay man might have been like if I'd been born exactly 20 years earlier. Votes: 0

Thomas Mallon

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The world is cluttered up with unfinished business in the form of projects that might have been successful, if only at the tide point someone's patience had turned to active impatience. Votes: 0

Robert Updegraff

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In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored. Votes: 0

Stanley B. Prusiner

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If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page. Votes: 0

Marla Maples

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Style consists in maintaining a convincing reality all through a piece. It's like wearing a garment that looks as if it might have been made for you even if it wasn't. Votes: 0

Arlene Croce

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The cream-tiled walls were spattered here and there with old dried bloodstains, deep gouges that might have been clawmarks, and all kinds of graffiti. As usual, someone had spelt Cthulhu wrongly. Votes: 0

Simon R. Green

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On seeing the marsupials in Australia for the first time and comparing them to placental mammals: âAn unbeliever . . . might exclaim 'Surely two distinct Creators must have been at work'â Votes: 0

Charles Darwin

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If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!' Votes: 0

Bret Harte

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What we might have been dealing with here - with the building of the Pyramids - is an age that got lost. Man had to learn again what they previously had known. Votes: 0

John Henrik Clarke

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Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets. Votes: 0

William Faulkner

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... the radical deficiency of imagist verse, as such, is in its lack of general ideas. Much of it might have been written by an infinitely sensitive decapitated frog. It is hemisphereless poetry. Votes: 0

Bliss Perry

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There have been a few moments when I have known complete satisfaction, but only a few. I have rarely been free from the disturbing realization that my playing might have been better. Votes: 0

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

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Never's just the echo of forever, lonesome as a love that might have been. Let me go on lovin' and believin' 'til it's over. Please don't tell me how the story ends. Votes: 0

Kris Kristofferson

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The fact that a crime might have been committed with impunity in the past may make it seem more familiar and less gruesome, but surely does not give it any greater legitimacy. Votes: 0

Jonathan Kozol

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This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different. Votes: 0

Alice Paul

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I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt like taking a pair of scissors and cutting it up. Votes: 0

Cornelia Funke

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Haven't you ever wished that you could steal back just a few hours of your past?" she asked softly. "That's all I want... just a little taste of what might have been. Votes: 0

Lisa Kleypas

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I've never hidden the fact that I used to be shy, even when I was 30. However, I might have been self-conscious on the inside, but I was never inhibited about my body. Votes: 0

Claudia Schiffer

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Of all sad words, of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been.' Let's add this thought, unto this verse: 'It might have been a great deal worse." Votes: 0

Walt Whitman

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Beyond the window, some kind of small, black thing shot across the sky. A bird, possibly. Or it might have been someone's soul being blown to the far side of the world. Votes: 0

Haruki Murakami

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The reporter asked, "why did you play so hard.""Because there might have been somebody in the stands today who'd never seen my play before, and might never see me again"-Joe DiMaggio Votes: 0

Joe DiMaggio

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If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't. Votes: 0

Garet Garrett

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Taking your own life could become the ultimate failure, because you will be killing and closing the existing door to a chance that might have been waiting to lead you into another path. Votes: 0

Archibald Marwizi

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The dream might have been more than a dream. It was as if a door in the wall of reality had come ajar... and now all sorts of unwelcome things were flying through. Votes: 0

Stephen King

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I had always been in love with him. I counted the lashes of each closed eye. He had been my almost, my might have been, and I did not want to leave him Votes: 0

Alice Sebold

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As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from them. I thought that was fun. Votes: 0

Tiger Woods

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Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion) Votes: 0

Jane Austen

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We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name. Votes: 0

Charles Lamb

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I might have been eleven years old and a little socially immature, but I recognized a gauntlet being thrown down when I saw it, and I had no choice but to take it up. Votes: 0

Gayle Forman

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Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn't-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been. Votes: 0

Marva Collins

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I had to know if I could make it somewhere else. I did not want to go through the rest of my life wondering what might have been without putting myself to the test. Votes: 0

Kenny Dalglish

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If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself. Votes: 0

Annie Lennox

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She kept asking herself whether, if he had looked cleaner, she might have been more concerned; whether, on some subliminal level, she had confused his obvious signs of neglect with street-smartness, toughness and resilience. Votes: 0

J. K. Rowling

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They might have been all-right people doing the best they could, but I got to tell you, you got a dead cat lying in your yard you ought to bury it. That's my motto. Votes: 0

Joe R. Lansdale

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Overwhelming and astounding inequality,especially when it has an element of the unattainable, arouses far less envy than minimal inequality, which inevitably causes the envious to think: I might have been in his place. Votes: 0

Helmut Schoeck

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It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might have been spared in my education, for I never read. Votes: 0

Hannah More

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Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse-power scent about them that might have been warranted to carry three miles, and knock a man over at two hundred yards. Votes: 0

Jerome K. Jerome

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A woman's counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart's ease he liv'd; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin. Votes: 0

John Dryden

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My first paying job might have been doing a play, actually. My mom paid me to dress up as a flounder at my sister's 'Little Mermaid' - themed birthday party when I was little. Votes: 0

Paul Dano

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The double-crossed, might-have-been history of my country is not the study of what actually took place here: it's the study of historians' studies. . . .Memories are their own descendants masquerading as the ancestors of the present. Votes: 0

David Mitchell

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How different South Africa's cricketing achievements, and indeed the future of the country itself, might have been if racism had not denied Frank Roro the opportunity of batting with Bruce Mitchell in the Lord's sunshine. Votes: 0

Richard Lloyd

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In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was. Votes: 0

Cormac McCarthy

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There's always something in the game you wish you would have done different. That's why players improve, because they learn from what they did before. They might have been guessing before, but now they know. Votes: 0

Gordie Howe

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Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been heard by those who listened closely: the gentle sigh of an idea unbound. Votes: 0

Lydia Millet

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The things that have been and shall be no more, The things that are, and that hereafter shall be, The things that might have been, and yet were not, The fading twilight of joys departed. Votes: 0

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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I did love 'Dirty Sexy Money' quite a lot. I loved my tenure at 'Scrubs' quite a lot. 'ER' might have been my favorite guest star thing. 'We Were Soldiers' meant a lot to me. Votes: 0

Bellamy Young

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The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place. Votes: 0

Jodi Picoult

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There isn't much doubt that like other animal societies, those of Homo sapiens involved plenty of cooperation, which might have been considerably enhanced, one would suppose, by the emergence of the remarkable instrument of language. Votes: 0

Noam Chomsky

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It is never too late to be what you might have been

George Eliot

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I might have been able to make it as a pitcher except for one thing: I had a rather awkward motion and every time I brought my left arm forward I hit myself in the ear.

Casey Stengel

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When a dream takes hold of you, what can you do? You can run with it, let it run your life, or let it go and think for the rest of your life about what might have been.

Patch Adams

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Lil had always believed that a person's duty was to make the best of the hand they were dealt. No use wondering what might have been, she used to say, all that matters is what is.

Kate Morton

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It's true, we tend to write about the same thing over and over again because this is our trauma. If I had been in World War II, I might have been writing about D-Day over and over again.

Anne Roiphe

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As a cancer survivor, I am very aware of how many wasted minutes I don't have. The surest way to waste what is left of your life is to worry about what might happen or what might have been.

Shelley Hamlin

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There is a wealth of unexpressed love in the world. It is one of the chief causes of sorrow evoked by death: what might have been said or might have been done that never can be said or done.

Arthur Hopkins

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I've never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I've never been in a play that wasn't interesting or worthwhile doing on some level.

Stephen Rea

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You are the male I might have been. You are the potential I had and lost. You are the honor and the strength and the kindness she needs. You'll take care of her. I want you to take care of her.

J.R. Ward

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Blay said roughly,"I'm still in love with him" Saxton dropped his eyes and brushed at the top of his thigh, as if there might have been a tiny piece of lint there. " I know. You thought you weren't?

J.R. Ward

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Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal.

Max Schmeling

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Could it be that time is too narrow for all events? Could it happen that all the seats within time might have been sold? Worried, we run along the train of events, preparing ourselves for the journey.

Bruno Schulz

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Shakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age still less civilized Shakespeare might have been wilder, but would not have been vulgar.

Horace Walpole

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And at last father flung the rug off as if it were hampering him and strode over to the table saying, 'cocoa, cocoa!'-- it might have been the most magnificent drink in the world; which, personally, I think it is.

Dodie Smith

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Love is fragile -- she was thinking -- but perhaps the pieces are saved, the things that hovered on lips, that might have been said. The new love-words, the tenderness learned, and treasured up for the next lover.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Had the Senate or House, or both, censured or somehow warned Richard Nixon, the tragedy of Watergate might have been prevented. Hopefully the Senate will not sit by while even more serious abuses unfold before it.

John Dean

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I've hung around in absolute exhaustion and starvation waiting for an idea to hit, which might have been months. I've talked things over with editors, found out what they wanted, and when they wanted it delivered.

Theodore Sturgeon

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I think it's easier to play when you do have a balanced home. I think if I did have alcoholism in my personal life, or my mother, or somebody close to me, it might have been much more uncomfortable to get in there.

Angelina Jolie

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I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal preparation. When I see something ten years later that I was in I think, 'Boy, would I love to do that over.

Sam Elliott

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There is a thin line between the policeman and the criminal. The best cops are always crossed. The best cops are the ones who are able to think like criminals. But for a quirk of fate, they might have been criminals.

William Friedkin

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I wish that after the war against Saddam Hussein we had been more effective at rebuilding Iraq quickly. I think had we done it from the provinces, in, rather than from Baghdad, out, we might have been more successful.

Condoleezza Rice

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We are all in situations of our own choosing. Our thinking creates a pathway to success or failure. By disclaiming responsibility for our present, we crush the prospect of an incredible future that might have been ours.

Andy Andrews

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I've speculated about what my life might have been like as a musician, but I'm afraid I came to the conclusion that I probably would've either been teaching piano or maybe gotten to play at Nordstrom's department store.

Condoleezza Rice

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If we had had time and the occasion to develop a new socialism in the GDR, socialism with a human face, with democracy, this might have been an example also to West Germany. The development would have run the other way.

Stefan Heym

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Yes, Manchester United are the best team in England, but you have to ask how good has the Premier League been since I left? If I was at a top club in England I think the title race might have been a lot closer this year.

Jose Mourinho

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All one's work might have been better done; but this is a sort of reflection a worker must put aside courageously if he doesn't mean every one of his conceptions to remain forever a private vision, an evanescent reverie.

Joseph Conrad

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Or at school you might have been prodded to come "out of your shell"that noxious expression which fails to appreciate that some animals naturally carry shelter everywhere they go, and that some humans are just the same.

Susan Cain

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And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love and no warmth, nor any touching of the lips. Nothing perchance, or perchance but bitter memories of what might have been.

H. Rider Haggard

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[The World Series] introduced me for the first time to a team with a lot of black players. Detroit had about three of them: I think it was Willie Horton, Gates Brown, and Earl Wilson - might have been one or two more in '68.

Michael Eric Dyson

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[The reason a man has] so much trouble with the Senate is that there isn't a man in the Senate who doesn't think he is better suited to be President than the President, and thinks he might have been President except for luck.

Calvin Coolidge

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Look at the mother of Washington! She raised a boy that could not tell a lie--could not tell a lie! But he never had any chance. It might have been different if he had belonged to the Washington Newspaper Correspondents' Club

Mark Twain

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My sister, who never understood most of the things I wanted her to, might have been able to understand what had happened to me in this summer of weddings and beginnings. And she was right. The first boy was always the hardest.

Sarah Dessen

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The job of the critic, as it might have been conceived in the 1950's or 1960's, was some kind of role of moral arbiter for people, not a huge number of people, but people who were, you know, fairly educated, well-placed people.

Louis Menand

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I was surprised that President [Barak] Obama would be so bold to come here [UK] and tell people what to do.I think a lot of people don't like him and I think if he had not said it I think you're result might have been different.

Donald Trump

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I know there are problems that I say to myself, If maybe I was a little more gifted I might have been able to solve. But that's not because I believe what I did was a mistake. It's that maybe it required the talents of a Lincoln.

Barack Obama

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The endless, agonizing recycling of what might have been, soon followed by a litany of rationalizations and self-deceptions as you struggle to reconcile the void between the person you want to be and the person you fear you are..

Jon Krakauer

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I'm kind of happy to know there may be some kid or teenager now who might never have had the chance to see my Broadway performance, but gets a taste for what it might have been like now, because they can see Clint Eastwood's film."

John Lloyd Young

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To answer the purpose of the adversaries of the Constitution, they ought to prove, not merely that particular provisions in it are not the best, which might have been imagined; but that the plan upon the whole is bad and pernicious.

Alexander Hamilton

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Donald Trump talks us down. He makes disparaging comments about America. He calls our military a disaster. Well, it's not, but it might have been if everybody else had failed to pay taxes to support our brave men and women in uniform.

Hillary Clinton

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I might have been through some changes, but changing the way I look wasn't one of the major ones. To be honest. I'm sick of the whole subject of my hair. I mean, are you just sitting there looking at my hair, or are you looking at me?

Jon Bon Jovi

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Your function as a critic is to show that it is really you yourself who should have written the book, if you had had the time, and since you hadn't you are glad that someone else had, although obviously it might have been done better.

Stephen Potter

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It might have been introduced slowly over the course of the years as you recall this memory over and over. So that was a very cool but complex idea that we thought about representing in the film but could not find a way to make it work.

Pete Docter

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Dig deep into its communitarian ethos and it reads more like an America that might have been, an America fervently devoted to the quaint goals of working together and getting along. Of course, this America does exist. It's called Canada.

Sarah Vowell

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If you didnât believe it before â and itâs easy to understand how you might have been sceptical on this point â if you didnât believe it before, you can absolutely believe it now: New York City is the greatest city in the world.

David Letterman

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I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal e-mails than two. I did it for convenience and I now looking back think that it might have been smarter to have those two devices from the very beginning.

Hillary Clinton

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I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience.

Jim Carrey

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Men spoke much in my boyhood about restricted or ruined men of genius: and it was common to say that many a man was a Great Might-Have-Been. To me it's a more solid and startling fact that any man in the street is a Great Might-Not-Have-Been.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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In a certain way, my work had set me up to be against lots of things. If there wasn't some sort of sanction for it in the public world, it might have been...it wouldn't have been tolerated, because people don't want things to get shaken up...

Julian Schnabel

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I work continuously within the shadow of failure. For every novel that makes it to my publisher's desk, there are at least five or six that died on the way. And even with the ones I do finish, I think of all the ways they might have been better.

Gail Godwin

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For some reason, it didn't feel right. Victor's words seemed to confirm that. There was another reason that he'd come here. Falling in love with Elizabeth might have been part of it. But that wasn't all. Something else was coming. There is more.

Nicholas Sparks

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Things might have been different if she hadn't been able to drift; if she'd had to concentrate on her next meal, instead of dwelling on all the injuries she felt we'd done her. An unearned income encourages self-pity in those already prone to it.

Margaret Atwood

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I learned so much about myself from reading this script and doing this movie [Shelter] because the level of judgment and the lack of humanity I saw in myself was disgusting. I never took into account what a homeless person might have been through.

Paul Bettany

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If you get vegetables in season, the difference is remarkable compared to vegetables that might have been imported. You can't beat fresh ingredients and seasonal fresh ingredients. There's nothing quite like the taste of a beautiful summer strawberry.

William Katt

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Great wealth may be to its owner a blessing or a curse. Alas! I fear it is too often the latter. It hardens the heart, blunts the finer susceptibilities, and transforms into a fiend what under more favourable circumstances might have been a human being.

Arnold Bennett

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In the spring of 1946 [Ho Chi Minh ] signed a provisional agreement with the French representative on a compromise solution to the dispute over Vietnamese independence. Once again, he might have been naive in hoping that a compromise was really possible.

William J. Duiker

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Children should learn to draw as they learn to write, and such a mystery should not be made of it. They should be encouraged, not flattered... then [later in life] double the effort is required to get the facility which might have been gained insensibly.

William Morris Hunt

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Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and all the happiness that might have been yours becomes clear to you. You see with utter lucidity all that you are losing.

Yann Martel

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They just kept grinning at me from over the stupid sign, Dopey because he's too dumb to know any better, Doc because " well, I guess because he might have been glad to see me. Doc's weird that way. Sleepy, the oldest, just stood there, looking "¦ well, sleepy.

Meg Cabot

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Was it - was she making a real prediction?' Dumbledore looked mildly impressed. 'Do you know, Harry, I think she might have been,' he said thoughtfully. 'Who'd have thought it? That brings her total of real predictions up to two. I should offer her a pay raise...

J. K. Rowling

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I was much affected by the internal troubles of the Punch family; I thought that with a little more tact on the part of Mrs. Punch and some restraint held over a temper, naturally violent, by Mr. Punch, a great deal of this sad misunderstanding might have been prevented.

Edmund Gosse

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How dangerous it is rashly to adopt the Mosaical institutions [Old Testament teachings of eye for an eye]. Laws might have been proper for a tribe of ardent barbarians wandering through the sands of Arabia which are wholly unfit for an enlightened people of civilized and gentle manners.

Gerald Heaney

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