Might Have Been Quotes
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.
Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.
It's true, we tend to write about the same thing over and over again because this is our trauma. If I had been in World War II, I might have been writing about D-Day over and over again.
If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.
Style consists in maintaining a convincing reality all through a piece. It's like wearing a garment that looks as if it might have been made for you even if it wasn't.
The Jersey Shore is the kind of place where the policeman has a little cottage that might have been in the family for years and many other people call home.
I might have been able to make it as a pitcher except for one thing: I had a rather awkward motion and every time I brought my left arm forward I hit myself in the ear.
I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt like taking a pair of scissors and cutting it up.
If I make a wrong decision, I worry what might have been. I stress out over very insignificant things.
I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.
The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.
Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us.
If I could take a punch like that, I might have been able to think up a name besides George for all my sons.
Beyond the window, some kind of small, black thing shot across the sky. A bird, possibly. Or it might have been someone's soul being blown to the far side of the world.
You are the male I might have been. You are the potential I had and lost. You are the honor and the strength and the kindness she needs. You'll take care of her. I want you to take care of her.
Well, sure, but I don't bring God into it. I think shower massage might have been invented by the devil. God invented the missionary position.
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.
I think we had a Ben Webster/Gerry Mulligan record... that might have been it. We only had a few records in the house.
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.
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.
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.
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.
... 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
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.
My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas.
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.
I do not look back at what might have been. If I did that, playing golf would drive me crazy.
He was in the right place at the right time, but he might have been elsewhere on a different afternoon.
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.
Ya know, Hitler was this evil, evil man. But with the World Bank and Israel manipulating America, he might have been on to something.
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!