Have Been Quotes

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.

James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathematicians of his time had he not been absolutely wanting in the power of continuous work.

The cream-tiled walls were spattered here and there with old dried bloodstains, deep gouges that might have been clawmarks, and all kinds of graffiti. As usual, someone had spelt Cthulhu wrongly.

In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored.

I've never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I've never been in a play that wasn't interesting or worthwhile doing on some level.

If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk.

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

There might have been a period around 'Tango & Cash' when I was nearly fashionable. My problem is that my weight's always been changing for the movies I'm in.

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.

We might have been a free and great people together.

But still my fancy wanders free Through that which might have been.

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

I do not look back at what might have been. If I did that, playing golf would drive me crazy.

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

He was in the right place at the right time, but he might have been elsewhere on a different afternoon.

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.

If there'd been a better-balanced society, where there were other ways of making a decent living, I think it might have been different. That's not the way this setup work.

The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and cleared its throat and struck six times.

Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets.

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.

Ya know, Hitler was this evil, evil man. But with the World Bank and Israel manipulating America, he might have been on to something.

Consciousness is not about information but about its opposite: order. Consciousness is not a complex phenomenon

Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention

If you’ve been there, done that, gotten the t-shirt, isn’t it time to move on to a new destination? Don’t waste a lot of time stressing the “could have’s” – because if it should have, it would have!

Destiny plays its cards in a way that no one can comprehend.

We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book

I did so many bad things to your god

You can never know where you are going unless you know where you have been.