Could Have Been Quotes - Page 7

• Childhood is the province of the imagination and when I immerse myself in it, I re-create it as it was, as it could have been, as I wanted - and didn't want - it to be.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Imagination, Childhood, Want

  Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.94, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.

  Margaret Halsey

  Fear, Spoons, Knees

  Margaret Halsey (1938). “With Malice Toward Some”

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• We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful. Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle. We could have been ourselves without our delights, but not without the misfortunes that drive our search for meaning. 'Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities,' St. Paul wrote in Second Corinthians, 'for when I am weak, then I am strong.'

  Andrew Solomon

  Motivational, Strong, Pain

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• Without the parallel development of systems of monetary - and credit-based exchange - there could have been no development of economies beyond the most primitive organizational forms and the most geographically restricted sales.

  Peter Dicken

  Credit, Development, Economy

  "Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy". Book by Peter Dicken, 1986.

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• Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for about a dollar and a half.

  Bill Geist

  New York, Class, Dollars

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• It was my view that the catastrophe. . . . could have been avoided if Vasilevsky had taken the position he should have. He could have taken a different position. . . . but he didn't do that, and as a result, in my view, he had a hand in the destruction of thousands of Red Army fighters in the Kharkov campaign.

  Aleksandr Vasilevsky

  Taken, Army, Views

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• That was a surprise. I just had wished that Wil Wheaton was there. He was missing from the last show and it would have been nice if everyone could have been there.

  Denise Crosby

  Missing You, Nice, Lasts

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• We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.

  Ed Markey

  Couple, Children, Simple

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• There is no way that the heart-lung machine could have been devised and developed other than through studies on living creatures

  Norman L Browse

  Heart, Animal, Way

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• Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.

  Eli Cohen

  Motivational, Development, Hell

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• I think that I could have been take apart if the bear market continued, but I waited three years before I felt the bear market was over and I was right.

  Jim Cramer

  Thinking, Years, Three

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• Tired faith all worn and thin, for all we could have done, and all that could have been.

  Trent Reznor

  Life, Tired, Done

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• Decades of Saddam’s rule made what could have been a fairly rich country, due to its oil reserves, into a very poor one.

  Chris Kyle

  Country, Rich Countries, Oil

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• Thousands of years of ideological, philosophical and practical decisions were made. They altered the surface of the earth, the coordinates of our souls. For every one of those decisions, maybe there's another decision that could have been made, should have been made.

  Arundhati Roy

  Philosophical, Should Have, Years

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I basically lived through what could have been my downfall and survived it, so whatever comes my way, I'm ready.

  Donnis

  Way, Downfall, Ready

  "Donnis Talks 'Fashionably Late,' Atlantic Debut & Texting With T.I". Interview with Jordan Martins, www.complex.com. June 24, 2010.

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• All of the things that Hillary Clinton was talking about could have been taken care of during the last 10 years, let's say, while she had great power. But they weren't taken care of. And if she ever wins this race, they won't be taken care of.

  Donald Trump

  Taken, Winning, Talking

  Source: time.com

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• People who came to the clinics or came to the fundraiser knew what was happening in their state but didn't realize the profundity of what was happening all over the place. But the third thing [was] that at every single clinic I went to, somebody who worked there - it could have been the doctor, it could have been the receptionist - said, "Thank you for coming, no one ever comes." And it broke my heart...I've used these services, I've had an abortion, I got to be where I am because of access to making choices to have the life I wanted.

  Lizz Winstead

  Heart, Doctors, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Any experience can be transformed into something of value. [ - worthy of enjoying by knowing it could have been worse.]

  Vash Young

  Gratitude, Knowing, Enjoy

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• No man is hurt but by himself. ...Literally by how he interprets what happens to him. If he focusses on how it could have been better, he will be hurt. If he focusses on how it could have been worse, he will be happy. The same is true for women too.

  Diogenes

  Gratitude, Hurt, Men

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• If surrender could have been brought about in May, 1945, or even in June or July, before the entrance of Soviet Russia into the [Pacific] war and the use of the atomic bomb, the world would have been the gainer.

  Joseph Grew

  War, June, Russia

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• I let one thing result from another. Of course, all of it could have been just loosely connected coincidences. And whether that's true or not, I know the intention was there. Becasue when I want something to happen-or not happen- I begin to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.

  Amy Tan

  Opportunity, Want Something, Events

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.152, Penguin

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• The Houthi have local religious grievances, being Shiites in a majority Sunni land. But they are also agents of Shiite Iran, which arms, trains, and advises them. Their slogan - 'God is great. Death to America. Death to Israel' - could have been written in Persian.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Religious, Israel, Iran

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• You know, sometimes people never get to learn how successful they could have been because they give up too easily. If I've learned one thing in all my years in the business, it's that often things don't work out the way you want at first. But that doesn't mean you should give up.

  Russell Simmons

  Success, Giving Up, Business

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• The boy in the pearl gray suit could have been Jane's twin. His hair was darker, and his lips were not as full, but he was just as lovely.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Boys, Hair, Lovely

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• If we cannot serve a person who we can see, how can we serve a God whom we cannot see? Some just have to have their own thing and be the “boss”. I grieve for these people who have become the King of their own tiny mound, when they could have been a Prince in a major organization.

  Phil Pringle

  Kings, Grieving, Organization

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