Have Been Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

I think we had a Ben Webster/Gerry Mulligan record... that might have been it. We only had a few records in the house.

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

Job-wise I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago but I hate when people vomit.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

... 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

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

My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.

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.

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.

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

My career could have been prolonged for longer

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.

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.

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

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

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.

It was one of the most disgusting spectacles I've ever seen-- this white-haired old man, who should have been thinking of the hereafter, standing there lying like an actor.

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

My favourite member of the Beatles is Lennon. He might have been crazy. But he's my kind of crazy.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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