Could have been Quote by Alan Paton Download Open image “It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.” — Alan Paton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Could have been Funny Habit Habits Has beens Inspirational Love
“It was not his habit to dwell on what might have been but what could never be.” — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
And it was the kind of thing that loses the most important nuances when reduced to words. He had never told anyone about it,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what “just living” might actually be. He had never done it in his life.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“If he looked back on what his life had been lately, he had perhaps managed two or three days when he had woken up, looked at the sun - or the rain - and felt glad to see the morning, just happy, without wanting anything, planning anything or asking anything in exchange. Apart from those few days, the rest of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share
“since his mind no longer entertained any lofty ideals, he had ceased to believe in (although he could not have expressly denied) their reality.… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said. — Abraham Polonsky Copy Share Image
He could remember all about it now; the pitiful figure he must have cut; the absurd way in which he had gone and done the very thing he had so often agreed with himself in thinking would be the most foolish thing in the world; and had met with exactly the consequences which, in these wise moods, he had always… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share
He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He is a missionary and believes in God, intensely I mean, but it takes all kinds to make a world.” — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“All roads lead to Johannesburg. If you are white or if you are black they lead to Johannesburg. If the crops fail, there is… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“There's a hard law, mejuffrou, that when a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.” — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and that's why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate. — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school,… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing. — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“Indeed, there is something in this valley, some spirit and some life, and much to talk about in the huts. Although nothing has come… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“In a land of fear... incorruptibility is like a lamp set upon a stand, giving light to all in the house.” — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“Something within me is waking from long sleep, and I want to live and move again. Some zest is returning to me, some immense… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“Would age now swiftly overtake him? Would this terrible nodding last now for all his days, so that men said aloud in his presence,… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I'm happy with my career but I could have been happier if I could have been treated like a champion should have been treated… — Larry Holmes Copy Share Image
Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world ...… — Edward Eggleston Copy Share Image
Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had the dice been hotter, this could… — Mickey Rooney Copy Share Image
From '86 until the summer of last year, wherever I went, people would say, You would have made a great James Bond! Weren't you… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
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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… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
You obviously don't know what an Old Man of the Sea great wealth is. It is not a fat purse and time to spend… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
At the beginning of my TV and movie stuff, I would be really critical of myself, but I've gotten better and better. There's always… — Mireille Enos Copy Share Image
The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
