Could Have Been Quotes

As a player leaving early, you always look back and wonder what could have been. But you have to be happy with your decisions, because you ultimately have to live with them.

Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?

My life could have been so grim really, really grim.

I like watching films that are 94 minutes as a spectator. I think it's rare that you don't come out, even from a good film, thinking I wish it could have been a little bit shorter.

I think there's a lot that the larger society could have been taught or can be taught, but I'm not sure - given how unyielding the larger society has been - that much has been learned.

I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.

If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris.

God, I wish you could have been there.

The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by their wisest forethought.

I could have been better. That's my goal now, to be better.

There's always male roles I want to play. I'm so annoyed when I watch movies and go, "That could have been played by a woman."

My philosophy in life, where I was trying to get, could have been a little bit different.

The military's own report says that one-third of deaths and casualties could have been avoided if proper body armor and vehicle armor had been provided from the start of the war.

A lot of the things that seem to be coming out now [in 2016] could have been written just maybe three years ago by the Gang of Eight or by Jeb Bush.

Childhood is the province of the imagination and when I immerse myself in it, I re-create it as it was, as it could have been, as I wanted - and didn't want - it to be.

Trayvon Martin could have been any of our sons, so I was not especially moved by that remark of President [Barack] Obama's.

I wanted so much to keep you safe. I did my best. I'm sorry things didn't come out different for the two of us. I wish I could have been good enough for you.

Those Genes Could Have Been Mine

Perfect night, wasn't it?" "It could have been." I smiled up at him. "But you were there.

I see the beauty in boxing. It teaches me strength physically, but mostly mentally. I had to learn my strength, because for so long I could have been tougher than I was.

There was a possibility I could have been out of the NBA. It's taught me something that was a little deeper than basketball. I'm talking about life decisions.

AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.

The problem with the term "The New Fiction" is that the fiction will inevitably be old. The same could have been said about the work of any generation of writers.

He was a great poet" They lamented. No, he was not a great poet," said Theo, "He was a good poet, he could have been better. That's the real loss don't you see?

My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.

It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything.

No husband of mine will say, "I could have been a drummer, but I had to think about the wife and kids. You know how it is." Nobody supports me at the expense of his own adventure.

I don't regret not coming out early. A lot of people felt that I could have been a lottery pick, but we'll never know.

My career could have been prolonged for longer

If Mars formed life, then life on Earth could have been seeded by life on Mars, making every life form on Earth descended from Martians.

Tatiana: "Why did we spend two days fighting when we could have been doing this?" Alexander: "That wasn't fighting, Tatiana. That was foreplay.

Given the large size of the illegal harvest, ... I find it difficult to understand how this could have been a casual oversight.

Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.

My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.

I had a lot of problems in my life. I've been a sickly kid, I had a strange life. They said I could have been blind, handicapped, asthmatic, there were all kind of different problems about me.

I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If wed had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.

There’s nothing more humbling than seeing your best quotes in a list, and thinking they could have been written by a coma patient with a keyboard and spasms.

I always ask my dad why wasn't I a lefty? Even when I was younger I wanted to be lefty. I could have been really good.

On some planet, I probably could have been a lawyer. On some planet, I could have been somebody in advertising.

I supposed, perhaps, you miss the promise of what could have been, while at the same time you are grateful that what it was instead is over.

The expedition of Messrs. Lewis & Clarke for exploring the river Missouri, & the best communication from that to the Pacific ocean, has had all the success which could have been expected.

It definitely could have been a horror story [Valley of Violence], oh my God, if the dog was impossible. So could the horses.

They could have been removed. They could have been hidden. They could have been destroyed.

It was not perfect but I'm very happy. It could have been better, but I'm now looking forward to my second race of the season.

I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

Any experience can be transformed into something of value. [ - worthy of enjoying by knowing it could have been worse.]

I could have been a Vincent Young y'all know nothing about. I was on the wrong road, and it was a hard, hard time.

I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel.

Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.

Honestly, the only way Garden State could have been better was if I played every character. I'm awesome.