Might Have Been Quotes

But in another world, another life, probably growing up in another country, I might have been more of a dancer.

As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from them. I thought that was fun.

There's a tradition of reenactment in documentary which is about sort of illustrating what the past might have been like.

If it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian.

You can't afford to think about what might have been. You just be aware of what is.

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

I was a baby when I came into the world--otherwise I might have been smart enough to become a different person.

Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.

Be who you are, said the Duchess to Alice, or, if you would like it put more simply, never try to be what you might have been or could have been other than what you should have been.

I had always been in love with him. I counted the lashes of each closed eye. He had been my almost, my might have been, and I did not want to leave him

As she realized what might have been, she grew to be thankful for what was.

Hilary Clinton might have been a better pick than me.

In another time, in another place, I wonder who they might have been.

The information-deprived general populace might have been surprised this week to see a lower paycheck.

As a cancer survivor, I am very aware of how many wasted minutes I don't have. The surest way to waste what is left of your life is to worry about what might happen or what might have been.

I guess it's a sequel to our story From the journey 'tween heaven and hell With half the time thinking of what might have been and half thinkin' just as well. I guess only time will tell.

She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been

I'd love to be in Paul McCartney's shoes for a day. I'd love to pick up a guitar and write songs like he does. Or to experience what it might have been like to be a Beatle for a day.

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

Sometimes it seems that we might have been happier if we had once had an aristocracy to blame everything on.

... the radical deficiency of imagist verse, as such, is in its lack of general ideas. Much of it might have been written by an infinitely sensitive decapitated frog. It is hemisphereless poetry.

You might have been paid back enough to suit you" I said, "but I don't know if you've been paid back enough to suit me.

My rest might have been blissful enough, only a sad heart broke it.

It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.

He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.

If Mozart had power tools, there's no telling how great his music might have been.

The hardest memories are the pieces of what might have been.

The notion that I might have been able to court friends, win attention, conjure it, would have spoiled it for me. Unbidden love was what I wanted.

Boethius might have been styled happy, if that precarious epithet could be safely applied before the last term of the life of man.

If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't.

It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might have been spared in my education, for I never read.

No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them.

But the might-have-been is but boggy ground to build upon.

There have been a few moments when I have known complete satisfaction, but only a few. I have rarely been free from the disturbing realization that my playing might have been better.

Blay said roughly,"I'm still in love with him" Saxton dropped his eyes and brushed at the top of his thigh, as if there might have been a tiny piece of lint there. " I know. You thought you weren't?

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.