Might Have Been Quotes

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.

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.

An emotion that lives with me is a sense of what might have been had injuries not robbed me of my most lethal weapon - speed.

If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.

If we are ever to become what we might have been, we must cease being who we've become.

Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.

Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.

Hill Street Blues might have been the first television show that had a memory. One episode after another was part of a cumulative experience shared by the audience.

The key to the match might have been his serving. Maybe I should have concentrated harder on watching them go by me, I don't know.

If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page.

It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn't handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect of not being able to compete in gymnastics anymore was heartbreaking.

We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name.

I think I might have been stupid in some respects, it if weren't for my psychedelic experiences.

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

I guess nothing puts a damper on a one-night stand as much as your friend pointing out all the opportunities where you might have been killed.

The world is cluttered up with unfinished business in the form of projects that might have been successful, if only at the tide point someone's patience had turned to active impatience.

Might have been a time when I loved her too but you take that away and you'll always be the one.

He shook my hand and said goodbye with a sentence that might have been either good advice or a threat: "Take good care of yourself.

I might have been eleven years old and a little socially immature, but I recognized a gauntlet being thrown down when I saw it, and I had no choice but to take it up.

The things that have been and shall be no more, The things that are, and that hereafter shall be, The things that might have been, and yet were not, The fading twilight of joys departed.

If I had been a winger, I might have been daydreaming and thinking about how to keep my kit clean for next week.

It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.

In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was.

No man is obliged to be what he might have been.

What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed.

I might have been curious about actors' lives when I was growing up. That's human nature.

You must try never to regret what might have been, child. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot yet see.

We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.

A woman's counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart's ease he liv'd; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.

Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal.

I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded.

No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me.

I became so attentive to the souls of other people that I was not as attentive as I might have been to my own.

Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them.

If other cows with mad cow disease were slaughtered, we wouldn't know where to begin looking for people who might have been affected, .. With a comprehensive tracking system, we would.

All I asked for was equality and independence. A rotating chairmanship might have been the answer.

It might have been the hardest hit I took all day.

Another occupation might have been better.

Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer

Life is too short to dwell on what might have been.

Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be.

That shot might not have been as good as it might have been.

But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole.

Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been there are totally unacceptable.

I might have been born just plain white trash / but Fancy was my name.

There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been.

It's just the way things are. And you can't dwell on what might have been. You have to look at what is.

This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.

I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been.

It's odd to think we might have been Sun, moon and stars unto each other; Only I turned down one little street As you went up another.