Could Have Been Quotes

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

I'm not going to hold my breath because life goes on. Life is too short to sit around moaning about what could have been or what was.

No, those ears were not created by any chance coming together of atoms in nature (the Communist view). They could have been created only by immense design.

Polite conservationists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.

The Human Species could have been great but instead we became satisfied with lights on our tennis shoes.

Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person

We saw in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an illness called SARS. SARS ended up killing 800 people which is a significant number of deaths, but nowhere near as high as it could have been.

I liked the banana-seat bikes with the high handlebars - maybe a card in the wheel could have been part of it.

We are here lounging our time away, doing nothing, and having nothing to do. It gives me great regret to be passing my time so uselessly when it could have been so importantly employed at home.

Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.

You cannot prove this in real time, but when economists 20 years from now write a book on the recovery, it may well be entitled, It could have been much better.

I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better.

I could have been a great many things.

Opting for gold shoes could have been considered downright cocky, but I was confident and never doubted my ability to deliver gold medals to match my shimmering footwear.

There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.

I'm happy with my career but I could have been happier if I could have been treated like a champion should have been treated because management and fighters take advantage of fighters.

If I could have been anyone in the world, it would have been Ronaldinho. He's fantastic, I love watching him.

That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable.

What would be awful would be to die and look back miserably - seeing only the bad things, the opportunities missed, or what could have been.

We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars.

Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for about a dollar and a half.

I feel quite comfortable and happy with making a work that looks like it could have been made by somebody else.

I could have played more complex stuff. I could have been a busier player. But that's not what I wanted to do. I played what I wanted to play.

Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.

I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a great classical pianist!

If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease.

I think that I could have been take apart if the bear market continued, but I waited three years before I felt the bear market was over and I was right.

My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.

There was a possibility I could have been under surveillance.

With all the opportunities I had, I could have done more. And if I'd done more, I could have been quite remarkable.

So many of my rookie mistakes could have been avoided by first-hand exposure to other, more experienced technology entrepreneurs.

Marx's theory that only capitalists benefit from capitalism and workers are exploited was completely wrong. Nothing could have been further from the truth. Workers earned more as economies grew.

In practical terms the South Pointing Chariot was a simple direction finder. It could have been made to point in any direction - north, south, east or west.

If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder

I could have possibly beaten Senator McCain in the primary. Then I could have been the candidate who lost to Barack Obama.

Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.

My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher.

Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.

The boy in the pearl gray suit could have been Jane's twin. His hair was darker, and his lips were not as full, but he was just as lovely.

The thousands of clips on internet are better to us than any DVD that could have been released.

We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.

I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.

History teaches us that the past is full of luck and chance and circumstance, without any one of which, life could have been radically different.

But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.

Things are what they are and there's no point dwelling in the past or wondering what could have been.

I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead - the guy could have been working for Andy Warhol!

She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.

Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed.

The first record I bought myself could have been 'Oh Lonesome Me' by Don Gibson or 'Wake Up Little Susie' by the Everly Brothers.

I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life.