Might Have Been Quotes

Might Have Been Quote of the day

It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.

This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.

I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s.

To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.

Be what you are becoming without clinging to what you might have been; what you might yet be.

I might have been born in a hovel, but I determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be.

When I cut myself I feel so much better. All the little things that might have been annoying me suddenly seem so trivial, because I'm concentrating on the pain

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.

There is a wealth of unexpressed love in the world. It is one of the chief causes of sorrow evoked by death: what might have been said or might have been done that never can be said or done.

Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.

We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been.

Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.

If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.

There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been.

But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean?

We might have been better off if the question of Obama's patriotism had been raised before he was first elected. Never should we ignore so many red flag warnings again.

You are nobody, and I might have been somebody, and the road to each of us is love.

You do what you do and you pay for your sins and there's no such thing as what might have been.

Never's just the echo of forever, lonesome as a love that might have been. Let me go on lovin' and believin' 'til it's over. Please don't tell me how the story ends.

If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma.

Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.

However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.

It is never too late to be who you might have been. It is always possible

Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints.

If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music.

To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have.

The dream might have been more than a dream. It was as if a door in the wall of reality had come ajar... and now all sorts of unwelcome things were flying through.

If I had been born one or two hundred years ago, I might have been a sculptor, but photography is a very quick way to see, to make sculpture.

But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it.

Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.

No star is lost once we have seen, We always may be what we might have been.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

No second chance?" A wry smile twisted Carrick's lips. "There might have been, had I not waited so long to take it.

Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse-power scent about them that might have been warranted to carry three miles, and knock a man over at two hundred yards.

I don't want to live the rest of my life thinking about you and dreaming of what might have been. Stay with me, Allie.

When a dream takes hold of you, what can you do? You can run with it, let it run your life, or let it go and think for the rest of your life about what might have been.

The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.

time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.

Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

One woman and one man might have been OK in your grandmother's day, but who wants to marry your grandmother? Not even your grandfather!

I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.

National Socialism is what Marxism might have been if it could have broken its absurd and artificial ties with a democratic order.

I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.

Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness.

If some nuclear properties of the heavy elements had been a little different from what they turned out to be, it might have been impossible to build a bomb.

What we might have been dealing with here - with the building of the Pyramids - is an age that got lost. Man had to learn again what they previously had known.

So much paperwork to read! So much paperwork to push away! So much paperwork to pretend he hadn't received and that might have been eaten by gargoyles.