Could Have Been Quotes

Could Have Been Quote of the day

The person I miss most is the one I could have been.

The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.

You know what the true definition of hell is? It's when you die, you get to meet the person you could have been.

We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.

Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.

There was a time I could have been mistaken for Burt Reynolds. I had a moustache and so did he. But he was the number one star in the world, so there wasn't really much confusion

Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.

With the benefit of hindsight, had more care been taken, maybe this could have been avoided

This is a sad, regrettable day that all of us wish could have been avoided.

Michael Brown and Eric Garner died because they got into a confrontation that could have been easily avoided. That's what made their deaths so tragic.

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

For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.

The chaotic situation in Libya is definitely creating a threat. Libya now connects the jihadists in Africa with those in the Middle East and in Afghanistan. This could have been avoided.

The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.

I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.

You really can't worry about stuff you can't control... You need to focus on getting where you need to be and not worry about what could have been and what should have been.

I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.

A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

It could have been worse. I could have been born black.

Tired faith all worn and thin, for all we could have done, and all that could have been.

Flying the Feathered Edge captures my life story in an authentic and accurate way. I don't know how it could have been done any better.

Sometimes you have to look into a mirror and look at the worst you could have been if you're ever going to know the best you were meant to be.

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.

Doctor, do you think it could have been the sausage?

A sold-out house my first night back. Do you have any idea what kinda pressure that is? I could have been at home in my warm bed, playing Nintendo.

To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree

Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world ... unless it had been a first-class circus.

But I know that I'm not who I was supposed to be. Who I could have been. And I know it's because I was too afraid for too long.

I'm no liar. I could have been wrong, but I ended up not being [wrong]. But I'm no liar.

When you get down to the nitty gritty, isn't it a pity that in this big city not one little bitty man will admit that he could have been a little wrong.

What happened to you could have been worse - it could have happened to me.

Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.

When I arrived in France, it was very, very difficult. Not because I was in France - I could have been anywhere - but because I was so far, far away from my parents. I missed them so much.

He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.

After a year's research, one realizes that it could have been done in a week.

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

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different, it's accepting the past for what it was, and using this moment and this time to help yourself move forward.

Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist.

If Wenger had strengthened in the window, Arsenal could have been stronger

I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had.

It was five, but it could have been six, seven or eight goals, in my opinion.

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

Be great at what you do, and don't ever settle for mediocrity or else you will always wonder how great you could have been.

Most failures could have been converted into successes if someone had held on another minute or made more effort.

If I had an extra 20 or 50 years physically, I could have been the dancer of my dreams. But I never became that dancer.

If with so little we have done so much in Brazil, imagine what could have been done on a global scale, if the fight against hunger and poverty were a real priority for the international community.

Sometimes I wish I could have been a bit more relaxed, but then I wouldn't have been the same player.

Every hour spent investigating a drug user or seller is an hour that could have been used to find a missing child.