Could Have Been Quotes - Page 17

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  It was only when we were in that bed, high above the world - then I thought the birds could have been circling around our bodies circled around each other - that we made our world totally separated from everything else. It was the only way we could be together.

  Kathy Acker

  Our World, Bird, Together

  Kathy Acker (1997). “Eurydice in the Underworld”, Arcadia Books Limited

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• The information gained from these techniques was valuable in some instances, but there is no way of knowing whether the same information could have been obtained through other means.

  Dennis C. Blair

  Mean, Knowing, Technique

  "Banned Techniques Yielded ‘High Value Information,’ Memo Says". www.nytimes.com. April 21, 2009.

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• I'm just trying to look at something without blinking, to see what it is like, or it could have been like, and how that had something to do with the way we live now. Novels are always inquiries for me.

  Toni Morrison

  Trying, Looks, Inquiry

  Interview with Zia Jaffrey, Salon Magazine, February 2, 1998.

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• Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as certainly they did not see it. They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands.

  H. G. Wells

  War, Hands, People

  H.G. Wells (1914). “the World Set Free”

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• I don't know how I could have been more explicit. I gave them a roadmap and a flashlight, but they didn't go where I told them to go, they didn't look where I told them to look, they didn't tell the people I told them to call.

  Harry Markopolos

  People, Looks, Scandal

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• My life could have been so grim really, really grim.

  Graham Norton

  Grim, Has Beens

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• I realized that I could have been in galleries much sooner. I just needed to get past the fear of rejection. I still feel nervous when I approach a new gallery, although it has become more like a job now. The first step on this long road was getting past that initial fear.

  Mark Edward

  Jobs, Past, Long

  "Do The Things Other People Fear". markedwardadams.com. April 29, 2013.

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• My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Father, Writing, Immigration

  "I felt I had befouled myself" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.

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• Francisco Garcia could have been a high draft choice last year, probably in the 20s. He's the best wing player I've ever coached. But he's done it the right way. He knew he had to work on his body to become a good pro. When he goes into the pros, he'll be physically ready.

  Rick Pitino

  Sports, Player, Years

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• While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Plato, Philosophy, Science

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States”, p.248

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• In most cases a favorite writer is more with us in his book than he ever could have been in the flesh; since, being a writer, he is one who has studied and perfected this particular mode of personal incarnation, very likely to the detriment of any other. I should like as a matter of curiosity to see and hear for a moment the men whose works I admire; but I should hardly expect to find further intercourse particularly profitable.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Book, Writing, Men

  Charles Horton Cooley (2017). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.131, Routledge

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• To this day I am not convinced of having brought together with me in Germany the technically best players that could have been. But I was firmly convinced I called the ones that could create a team, and they could play with one another to the best of their possibility. In this day and age you win if you become a team. It doesn't necessarily mean that you've got to have the best football players in the country. It's possible that the best, all together, don't become a team. It's like a mosaic, you have to put all the pieces together.

  Marcello Lippi

  Country, Football, Team

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• My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher.

  Robert Duvall

  Uncles, Ranchers, Said

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• I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.

  Anthony Braxton

  Discipline, World, Students

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• I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn't talk about himself very much.

  Bob Brown

  Kids, Thinking, Difficult

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life.

  Ken Livingstone

  Voice, Sound, Prime

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• Indeed the early history of rocket design could be read as the simple desire to get the rocket to function long enough to give an opportunity to discover where the failure occurred. Most early debacles were so benighted that rocket engineers could have been forgiven for daubing the blood of a virgin goat on the orifice of the firing chamber.

  Norman Mailer

  Opportunity, Simple, Blood

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• As to the kindness you mention, I wish I could have been of more service to you than I have been, but if I had, the only thanks that I should desire are that you would always be ready to serve any other person that may need your assistance, and so let good offices go around, for humankind are all of a family. As for my own part, when I am employed in serving others I do not look upon myself as conferring favors but paying debts.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Letting Go, Kindness, Office

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• AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.

  Larry Kramer

  Needs, Aids, Plague

  "AIDS is a plague allowed to happen" By Larry Kramer, www.cnn.com. January 14, 2011.

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• Scholars have been arguing for a long time whether the Soviet Union could have been turned into some kind of social democracy. I doubt it myself. I think what Gorbachev didn't quite understand, until it was too late, is that his efforts at change unleashed new, certrifical forces he hadn't counted on. He opened the door a crack and a huge wind blew it open.

  David Hoffman

  Thinking, Doors, Wind

  "David Hoffman on 'The Dead Hand' and End of the Cold War". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. September 21, 2009.

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• And so matching by itself is incapable of creating an art of reckoning. Without our ability to arrange things in ordered succession little progress could have been made. Correspondence and succession, the two principles that permeate all mathematics - nay, all realms of exact thought - are woven into the very fabric of our number system.

  Tobias Dantzig

  Art, Numbers, Two

  Tobias Dantzig (1954). “Number, the Language of Science: A Critical Survey Written for the Cultured Non-mathematician”

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• Drugs is a society problem. It ain't just isolated to sports or entertainment. There's people that are doing brain surgeries that probably have dabbled in drugs. There may be some, judges and lawyers involved in the case could have been involved. So it's a problem in all society.

  Dave Parker

  Sports, People, Judging

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• I hate auditioning; it makes me more nervous than anything ever, and I always feel like I wasted my time and I could have been creating my own thing. With the Internet, you have so much freedom that 'gatekeepers' make me terrified.

  Grace Helbig

  Hate, Creating, Internet

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• Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.

  Aberjhani

  Opponents, Moments, Historic

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• My career could have been prolonged for longer

  Micky Quinn

  Careers, Has Beens

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