Could Have Been Quotes

If he had had no education, maybe Basho could have been a much greater poet.

We must not fail, individually, for if we fail, we fail twice - for ourselves and for those who could have been helped, if we had done our duty.

There is no way that the heart-lung machine could have been devised and developed other than through studies on living creatures

I am always frustrated when I see situations that could have been handled simpler.

We did every scene together, every day for four months, and it could have been a disaster, if we didn't get on, but we clicked straight away. Elijah Wood is just the nicest guy.

That could have been his second yellow card - if he'd already got his first one of course

I would have preferred to have been in a film where I could've been more authentic or more human, where the dialogue and my approach to the part could have been more real.

Be who you are, said the Duchess to Alice, or, if you would like it put more simply, never try to be what you might have been or could have been other than what you should have been.

Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.

He'd woken up the next day in the city hospital with Magnus Bane staring down at him with an odd expression--it could have been deep concern or merely curiosity, it was hard to tell with Magnus.

Decades of Saddam’s rule made what could have been a fairly rich country, due to its oil reserves, into a very poor one.

Don't waste time thinking about what could have been when you could be thinking about what could be.

The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball.

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.

It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study.

Some speak of a return to nature, I wonder where they could have been?

I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.

I could have been you, you could have been me. One small change that shapes your destiny.

I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies when he could have done a lot of great ones.

It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.

If the worst is going to happen, it'll happen. Worrying can't protect you from that. And if it doesn't happen then you've missed out on all the time that when you could have been having fun

By the way, you know, Mitt Romney and McCain, I don't agree with them, but they would have been okay. I could have been satisfied with them.

Lots of crime films are about work. Free Fire could have been about a company of plumbers doing pipe-fixing and stuff. But the plumbing film is not so exciting.

I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn't talk about himself very much.

Jimmy Stewart could have been a good golfer, but he speaks so slowly that by the time he yells 'Fore!' the guy he's hit is already in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.

I am, of comics I was never as big of a fan as I probably could have been I suppose but I'm definitely a fan of science fiction fantasy. My interests were in fantasy more than comics growing up.

There is a very good chance I could have been a screw-up for the rest of my life.

At lunchtime the place is jumping, while at night the dining rooms could have been rented out for chess tournaments.

It could have been the whole thing where you stabbed him.

I can’t even think about what life “could have been” like in Boston, without crying. It’s like deja-vu, I don’t think me and Boston were ever meant to be.

I think I need to face what I could have been in order to understand and accept what I am.

Carles Puyol is a Barcelona legend. He could have been playing every two weeks but he has shown dignity until the end.

I perhaps could have been somewhat better. One of the interesting things about playing competitive sports as a child is that you confront your own limitations rather starkly at a certain point.

If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before.

If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before. I mean, I produced a Frank Sinatra special - Elizabeth Taylor, with Michael Jackson, Gregory Peck, I won't even take a picture.

Watercolour could have been used more by the modernists. It is so direct, and when the white paper convention is accepted, so powerful, even brutal, that it would seem an ideal medium.

That was a surprise. I just had wished that Wil Wheaton was there. He was missing from the last show and it would have been nice if everyone could have been there.

The information gained from these techniques was valuable in some instances, but there is no way of knowing whether the same information could have been obtained through other means.

Any blaming that Russia could have been interfering in domestic affairs of the United States is slander. And it has no evidence at all.

When you hear kids singing your songs it just validates them, they sound like real songs when you hear them back, it's quite refreshing. Like songs that could have been around for a hundred years.

I basically lived through what could have been my downfall and survived it, so whatever comes my way, I'm ready.

My full name is Lauren Lee Smith. Of all the names I could have been given, that's the one I got. Lauren Lee Smith. It has all the personality of a toaster.

The sun will rise tomorrow. It always does, and all the wishing in the world for the way things were, or for what they could have been, won't change that. It won't change how things are.

You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a shorter time.

How it could have been different, how different decisions and events could have taken place. I'm not sure how it would have played out differently. I just didn't want it to play out the way it did.

Believing in myself has always been hard. For a long time, I constantly compared myself to others, and it took away from the energy I could have been putting into my career.

There were times when I wondered if I was doing the right thing, studying when I could have been going to auditions.

It was a bit of a surprise for us that we had problems in Hungary. But in reality, I think the car could have been pretty competitive with a trouble-free race.

The first step to get people interested in history is to wonder how things could have been different.

She would wonder what had hurt her when she found her face wet with tears, and then would wonder how she could have been hurt without knowing it.