Have Been Quotes
Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist.
I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.
Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness.
I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.
I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.
National Socialism is what Marxism might have been if it could have broken its absurd and artificial ties with a democratic order.
What we might have been dealing with here - with the building of the Pyramids - is an age that got lost. Man had to learn again what they previously had known.
So much paperwork to read! So much paperwork to push away! So much paperwork to pretend he hadn't received and that might have been eaten by gargoyles.
I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.
One night Roger was in a foul mood and he threw his entire bloody drumset across the stage. The thing only just missed me - I might have been killed.
I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had.
If some nuclear properties of the heavy elements had been a little different from what they turned out to be, it might have been impossible to build a bomb.
If we are ever to become what we might have been, we must cease being who we've become.
So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not.
Be great at what you do, and don't ever settle for mediocrity or else you will always wonder how great you could have been.
I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted conscientiously... It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.
Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
An emotion that lives with me is a sense of what might have been had injuries not robbed me of my most lethal weapon - speed.
One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
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.
In the matter of a difficult question it is more likely that the truth should have been discovered by the few than by the many.
Hill Street Blues might have been the first television show that had a memory. One episode after another was part of a cumulative experience shared by the audience.
If I had an extra 20 or 50 years physically, I could have been the dancer of my dreams. But I never became that dancer.
Most failures could have been converted into successes if someone had held on another minute or made more effort.
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
No, those ears were not created by any chance coming together of atoms in nature (the Communist view). They could have been created only by immense design.
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.
I should have been dead ten times over. I've thought about that a lot. I believe in miracles. It's an absolute miracle that I'm still around.
If with so little we have done so much in Brazil, imagine what could have been done on a global scale, if the fight against hunger and poverty were a real priority for the international community.
We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name.
Every hour spent investigating a drug user or seller is an hour that could have been used to find a missing child.
If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page.
I'm not going to hold my breath because life goes on. Life is too short to sit around moaning about what could have been or what was.
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
I'm a Gatorade athlete because dance is being recognized as a sport now. It always should have been, but now it is. It's very exciting.
Sometimes I wish I could have been a bit more relaxed, but then I wouldn't have been the same player.
In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
The key to the match might have been his serving. Maybe I should have concentrated harder on watching them go by me, I don't know.
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.
It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn't handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect of not being able to compete in gymnastics anymore was heartbreaking.
I'm constantly proving myself. I have to always prove myself. There are roles where I feel like, "That should have been a straight offer. Why am I having to call my people and fight for it?"
Polite conservationists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.
Might have been a time when I loved her too but you take that away and you'll always be the one.
The world is cluttered up with unfinished business in the form of projects that might have been successful, if only at the tide point someone's patience had turned to active impatience.
