Could Have Been Quotes - Page 11

• Every hour spent investigating a drug user or seller is an hour that could have been used to find a missing child.

  Randy Barnett

  Children, Missing, Drug

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• I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.

  Michael Cunningham

  Thinking, Two, People

  Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.200, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• Perfect night, wasn't it?" "It could have been." I smiled up at him. "But you were there.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Night, Perfect, Has Beens

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Bitten”, p.99, Vintage Canada

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• I would have done the same thing I did. I would have put all my energy into loving someone that wasn't you. I would have tried in vain, every day, to not think about you, and what could have been. What should have been. I would have tried to convince myself that there's no such thing as true love, except for the love you yourself make work, even though I know better....The bottom line is I never had any business marrying anyone who wasn't you.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Love You, Thinking, Should Have

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• I think I need to face what I could have been in order to understand and accept what I am.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Thinking, Order, Needs

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• I can’t even think about what life “could have been” like in Boston, without crying. It’s like deja-vu, I don’t think me and Boston were ever meant to be.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Thinking, Boston, Cry

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• when happiness makes a guest appearance in one's life,it's important to make the most of it.It may not stay around for long and when it has gone wouldn't it be terrible to think that all the time one could have been happy was wasted worrying when the happiness would be taken away.

  Marian Keyes

  Taken, Thinking, Long

  Marian Keyes (1995). “Watermelon”, Dufour Editions

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• As we're standing there I realize we're almost exactly the same height. We must look like the dark and light side of an Oreo cookie, and I think how just as easily it could have been the other way around. She could be blocking my path; I could be trying to slip around her into the dark.

  Lauren Oliver

  Block, Dark, Thinking

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• There was a possibility I could have been out of the NBA. It's taught me something that was a little deeper than basketball. I'm talking about life decisions.

  Lamar Odom

  Basketball, Talking, Nba

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• So let us raise a cheer ... for the insatiable spirit of Man eager for all new things! What a tale could have been written by that far off man who first saw a tree trunk roll and made a wheel and cart and harnessed in his mare and cracked his whip and drove away to disappear beyond the hill! Or that first man who made a boat and raised a sail and disappeared hull down to unknown shores!

  Cecil Arthur Lewis

  Cheer, Men, Tree

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• I was not the commander, I was a junior person, so once both were outside, I followed my leader, because we (NASA) had not put together detailed jobs of people outside. I believe it could have been improved. But it was very successful for what it was.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Jobs, Believe, Successful

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 08, 2014.

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• The person I miss most is the one I could have been.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Missing, Persons, Has Beens

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• The owners of a dog which swallowed a diamond worth £12000 had to wait three days until it re-emerged. With a bit of planning it could have been a nice way to propose.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Dog, Nice

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• The military's own report says that one-third of deaths and casualties could have been avoided if proper body armor and vehicle armor had been provided from the start of the war.

  John Olver

  Military, War, Armor

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• Opting for gold shoes could have been considered downright cocky, but I was confident and never doubted my ability to deliver gold medals to match my shimmering footwear.

  Michael Johnson

  Cocky, Shoes, Gold

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• The first record I bought myself could have been 'Oh Lonesome Me' by Don Gibson or 'Wake Up Little Susie' by the Everly Brothers.

  John Oates

  Brother, Wake Up, Records

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• Around the time of the Terran Caesar Augustus, a Martian artist had been composing a work of art. It could have been called a poem, a musical opus, or a philosophical treatise; it was a series of emotions arranged in tragic, logical necessity. Since it could be experienced by a human only in the sense in which a man blind from birth might have a sunset explained to him, it does not matter which category it be assigned.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Art, Philosophical, Sunset

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.93, Penguin

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• I like watching films that are 94 minutes as a spectator. I think it's rare that you don't come out, even from a good film, thinking I wish it could have been a little bit shorter.

  Guy Jenkin

  Thinking, Wish, Littles

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• A canteen I remember vividly, and maybe one other thing, I can't remember. And I knew then that he had bought them in an army surplus store that day and he wanted to maybe enhance himself in my eyes, and say, "Well, yes, I have been in the army." Or [he] simply just didn't want to disappoint me. It could have been one or the other. But I knew that he had lied to me. And this filled me with a tremendous sort of anger towards him. At the same time, knowing he was trying to please me, so feeling good about him.

  Paul Auster

  Eye, Army, Please Me

  Interview with Lotte Hansen, www.timeout.com.

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• I think the craziest thing I've seen is probably a fan sleeping overnight for two nights before a show, which was probably a bit excessive - they still probably could have been first either way! But I guess it turned into a really exciting, sort of, camping-out trip for them so it was cool.

  Hoodie Allen

  Sleep, Night, Thinking

  Source: blog.ticketmaster.co.uk

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• Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect. Somewhere, somehow, we screwed up. It could have been in design, build, or test. Whatever it was, we should have caught it. We were too gung ho about the schedule and we locked out all of the problems we saw each day in our work. Every element of the program was in trouble and so were we. The simulators were not working, Mission Control was behind in virtually every area, and the flight and test procedures changed daily.

  Gene Kranz

  Should Have, Safety, Design

  Gene Kranz (2009). “Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• I took a year of karate. It was like obligatory... every kid was taking like one year of karate and one year of piano in my town. It was Bruce Lee and Liberace. But I was not a white belt. I graduated. I had a colour belt - but that's all you need to know. It could have been black, it could have been yellow, or it could have been anything in between.

  Jack Black

  Kids, Years, Piano

  "Kung Fu Panda - Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman and Ian McShane interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• 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.

  Vince Young

  Hard Times, Young, Knows

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• Those Genes Could Have Been Mine

  Kamila Shamsie

  Genes, Mines, Has Beens

  Kamila Shamsie (2011). “Kartography”, p.32, A&C Black

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• It could have been worse. I could have been born black.

  Stevie Wonder

  Black, Born, Has Beens

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