[The World Series] introduced me for the first time to a team with a lot of black players. Detroit had about three… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
In the past, destruction of your neighbour might have been considered a victory, but today we are all interdependent. We live in… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might… — Chester Barnard Copy Share Image
I became so attentive to the souls of other people that I was not as attentive as I might have been to… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
In the Bible (Hebrews, 6:19), hope is ‘an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within… — George Frederic Watts Copy Share Image
I work continuously within the shadow of failure. For every novel that makes it to my publisher's desk, there are at least… — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me! — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
No real lady would let a dress that might have been worn by a stranger touch her skin. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
They just kept grinning at me from over the stupid sign, Dopey because he's too dumb to know any better, Doc because… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone… — Janet Jackson Copy Share Image
All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
What was done with the seed saved from the India Hemp last summer? It ought, all of it, to have been sewn… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The information-deprived general populace might have been surprised this week to see a lower paycheck. — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
This time I read the title of the painting: Girl Interrupted at Her Music. Interrupted at her music: as my life had… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
You must try never to regret what might have been, child. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us… — Richard Martin Stern Copy Share Image
It's just the way things are. And you can't dwell on what might have been. You have to look at what is. — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
If other cows with mad cow disease were slaughtered, we wouldn't know where to begin looking for people who might have been… — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He had been my almost. My might-have-been. I was afraid of what I wanted most - His kiss. Still, I collected kiss… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have been said of the sea. The Spray… — Joshua Slocum Copy Share Image
And it seemed hard to believe that these people who were so close to me couldn’t see how desperate I was, or… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we… — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
“In the vocabulary of certain radical theorists contradictions are given the status of some deadly disease to which their opponents alone can… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image