Might Have Been Quotes - Page 20

• What was done with the seed saved from the India Hemp last summer? It ought, all of it, to have been sewn again; that not only a stock of seed sufficient for my own purposes might have been raised, but to have disseminated the seed to others; as it is more valuable than the common Hemp.

  George Washington

  Summer, Marijuana, Hemp

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• Be who you are, said the Duchess to Alice, or, if you would like it put more simply, never try to be what you might have been or could have been other than what you should have been.

  Lewis Carroll

  Destiny, Should Have, Be Who You Are

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• She kept asking herself whether, if he had looked cleaner, she might have been more concerned; whether, on some subliminal level, she had confused his obvious signs of neglect with street-smartness, toughness and resilience.

  J. K. Rowling

  Confused, Resilience, Asking

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• Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.

  George Santayana

  Knowledge, Different, May

  "Persons and Places: My host the world".

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• As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a point of savoring such things as the tastiness of a piece of fruit, or other small things we might have been prone to overlook during our younger, busier days.

  Rumer Godden

  Being Sad, Age, Pieces

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• Luckily I was not born in Eastern Europe, because I might have been born into the communist establishment and I'm glad I was not. But in Israel, communists were dissidents. So you grow up in an environment which is very critical of Israeli policies.

  Amira Hass

  Growing Up, Israel, Europe

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There are people who have an image of me as being rude and inconsiderate. But I'm completely the opposite, because I was raised not to be. I might have been tripping over myself drunk, but I was always courteous.

  Slash

  Opposites, People, Drunk

  "Slash: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 26, 2011.

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• The Bumpuses were so low down on the evolutionary totem pole that they weren't even included in Darwin's famous family tree. They had inbred and ingrown and finally emerged from the Kentucky hills like some remnant of Attila the Hung's barbarian horde. Flick said that they had webbed feet and only three toes. It might have been true.

  Jean Shepherd

  Family, Kentucky, Feet

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• I might have been too tiny for it, but I wanted to become a professional tennis player. I was a pretty good tennis player as a kid, but ultimately I just don't think that I have that jock mentality needed for sports.

  Robbie Rist

  Sports, Kids, Player

  Source: www.teenagemutantninjaturtles.com

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• I was much affected by the internal troubles of the Punch family; I thought that with a little more tact on the part of Mrs. Punch and some restraint held over a temper, naturally violent, by Mr. Punch, a great deal of this sad misunderstanding might have been prevented.

  Edmund Gosse

  Littles, Might, Trouble

  Edmund Gosse (2012). “Father and Son”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• When a dream takes hold of you, what can you do? You can run with it, let it run your life, or let it go and think for the rest of your life about what might have been.

  Patch Adams

  Running, Dream, Thinking

  Patch Adams (1998). “Gesundheit!: Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System, and Society through Physician Service, Complementary Therapies, Humor, and Joy”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

  H. G. Wells

  Success, Hands, Done

  H. G. Wells (2015). “The Rights of Man”, p.25, Penguin UK

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• The information-deprived general populace might have been surprised this week to see a lower paycheck.

  Monica Crowley

  Might, Information, Week

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• One woman and one man might have been OK in your grandmother's day, but who wants to marry your grandmother? Not even your grandfather!

  Groucho Marx

  Grandmother, Men, Grandfather

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• It might have been really cool back in the '50s when it was less populated but I don't know.

  John Leguizamo

  Might, Really Cool, Knows

  Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2016.

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• I've speculated about what my life might have been like as a musician, but I'm afraid I came to the conclusion that I probably would've either been teaching piano or maybe gotten to play at Nordstrom's department store.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Teaching, Piano, Play

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I wish that after the war against Saddam Hussein we had been more effective at rebuilding Iraq quickly. I think had we done it from the provinces, in, rather than from Baghdad, out, we might have been more successful.

  Condoleezza Rice

  War, Successful, Thinking

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I might have been curious about actors' lives when I was growing up. That's human nature.

  Michael Fassbender

  Growing Up, Actors, Might

  "Alicia Vikander, Michael Fassbender on their relationship, onscreen and off". Interview with Joe McGovern, ew.com. August 26, 2016.

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• I know there are problems that I say to myself, If maybe I was a little more gifted I might have been able to solve. But that's not because I believe what I did was a mistake. It's that maybe it required the talents of a Lincoln.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Believe, Littles

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean?

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - Robert Downey Jr interview". IndieLondon interview,

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• I might have been tempted to hit him square in the jaw had he not taken me by the shoulders and pinned me against the wall. There was hardly any space left between us, just a thin boundary of air, but Patch managed to eliminate it. "Let's be honest, Nora. You've got it bad for me." His eyes held a lot of depth. "And I've got it bad for you." He leaned into me and put his mouth on mine. A lot of him was on me, actually. We touched base at several strategetic locations down our bodies, and it took all my willpower to break away.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Wall, Taken, Eye

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Hush, Hush”, p.341, Simon and Schuster

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• But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Voice, Might, Able

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• I might have been born just plain white trash / but Fancy was my name.

  Reba McEntire

  Names, White, Might

  Song: Fancy, Album: Rumor Has It, 1990

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• I had more problems with the men in our own government, and not because they were male chauvinistic pigs but because they had known me for so long. I might have been a carpool mother and a friend of their wife, and so they'd been to my house for dinner and things like and they thought 'how did she get to be secretary of state when I should be secretary of state?' So that was more of a problem.

  Madeleine Albright

  Mother, Men, Pigs

  Interview with Maeve Allsup, www.amwordmag.com. October 20, 2015.

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