Might Have Been Quotes - Page 19

If I make a wrong decision, I worry what might have been. I stress out over very insignificant things.

Courtney Barnett

Stress, Insignificant Things, Worry

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

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In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was.

Cormac McCarthy

Groups, Might, All The Pretty Horses

Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.227, Pan Macmillan

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We might have been better off if the question of Obama's patriotism had been raised before he was first elected. Never should we ignore so many red flag warnings again.

Thomas Sowell

Red Flags, Warning, Might

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In all disputes, a point is arrived at where no party, no matter how right or wrong it might have been at the start of that dispute, will any longer be totally in the right or totally in the wrong. Such a point I believe, has been reached in this debate... Let us not equivocate. A tragedy of unprecedented proportions is unfolding in Africa.

Nelson Mandela

Party, Believe, Tragedy

"Mandela's Aids speech: Excerpts". news.bbc.co.uk. July 14, 2000.

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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer

Florence Nightingale

Might, Christ, Complainers

Florence Nightingale (2008). “The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”

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I'm not an analytical person, so it's not my job to even know what the hell the thing meant. It's not my problem. I'm just supposed to do it. Sometimes, people have explained things to me that I might have been semi-conscious of or not.

Jim Jarmusch

Jobs, People, Might

Source: www.avclub.com

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If I could take a punch like that, I might have been able to think up a name besides George for all my sons.

George Foreman

Son, Thinking, Names

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It completely sickens me what our culture is doing to women. Last week I wore a big top and little shorts and a bunch of stuff came out saying I was without pants. 'The No-Pants Look,' it said. And I didn't go out without pants, I had shorts on... If Olivia Wilde had gone to a party with a big silky top and little shorts she might have been told her outfit was cute... What it was really: 'Why did you show us your thighs?'

Lena Dunham

Cute, Party, Gone

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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I guess nothing puts a damper on a one-night stand as much as your friend pointing out all the opportunities where you might have been killed.

Mindy Kaling

Opportunity, Night, Might

Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.155, Crown/Archetype

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How dangerous it is rashly to adopt the Mosaical institutions [Old Testament teachings of eye for an eye]. Laws might have been proper for a tribe of ardent barbarians wandering through the sands of Arabia which are wholly unfit for an enlightened people of civilized and gentle manners.

Gerald Heaney

Teaching, Eye, Law

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Whoever prays is certainly saved. He who does not is certainly damned. All the blessed have been saved by prayer. All the damned have been lost through not praying. If they had prayed they would not have been lost. And this is, and will be their greatest torment in hell: to think how easily they might have been saved, just by asking God for His grace, but that now it is too late - their time of prayer is gone.

Alphonsus Liguori

Prayer, Blessed, Thinking

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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.

John Berger

Art, Sky, People

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I might have been born in a hovel, but I determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

Jacqueline Cochran

Stars, Wind, Might

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At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.

Imelda Staunton

Envy, Looks, Exotic

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Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.

Mickey Mantle

Sports, Player, Thinking

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

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To answer the purpose of the adversaries of the Constitution, they ought to prove, not merely that particular provisions in it are not the best, which might have been imagined; but that the plan upon the whole is bad and pernicious.

Alexander Hamilton

Answers, Might, Purpose

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.322, Coventry House Publishing

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He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with which he was only too familiar, that of walking in a giant sphere of worry, enclosed by it, watching his own terrors roll by, obscuring the outside world.

J. K. Rowling

Glasses, Worry, Dining

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He raised his eyes. "Sister. See. This time I knew you." Asha's heart skipped a beat. "Theon?" His lips skinned back in what might have been a grin. Half his teeth were gone, and half those still left him were broken and splintered. "Theon," he repeated. "My name is Theon. You have to know your name.

George R. R. Martin

Heart, Eye, Names

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They say you cannot love two people equally at once,” she said. “And perhaps for others that is so. But you and Will—you are not like two ordinary people, two people who might have been jealous of each other, or who would have imagined my love for one of them diminished by my love of the other. You merged your souls when you were both children. I could not have loved Will so much if I had not loved you as well. And I could not love you as I do if I had not loved Will as I did.

Cassandra Clare

Children, Princess, Love You

Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Princess”, p.564, Simon and Schuster

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The endless, agonizing recycling of what might have been, soon followed by a litany of rationalizations and self-deceptions as you struggle to reconcile the void between the person you want to be and the person you fear you are.

Jon Krakauer

Struggle, Self, Deception

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To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.

Chester Barnard

Inspirational, Failure, Learning

Chester Irving Barnard (1968). “The Functions of the Executive”, p.26, Harvard University Press

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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.

J.R. Ward

Kindness, Honor, Males

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Sure, losing an election hurts, but I've experienced worse. And at an age when every day is precious, brooding over what might have been is self-defeating. In conceding the 1996 election, I remarked that "tomorrow will be the first time in my life I don't have anything to do." I was wrong. Seventy-two hours after conceding the election, I was swapping wisecracks with David Letterman on his late-night show.

Bob Dole

Hurt, Night, Self

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I do not look back at what might have been. If I did that, playing golf would drive me crazy.

Tiger Woods

Crazy, Athlete, Golf

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Might have been a time when I loved her too but you take that away and you'll always be the one.

Drake

Relationship, True Love, Humble

Song: Make Me Proud

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