Famous Might Have Been Quotations
323 Might Have Been quotes by 280 unique authors
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No second chance?" A wry smile twisted Carrick's lips. "There might have been, had I not waited so long to take it.
— Nora Roberts
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She gave me this look – she might have been watching from a lifeboat as the ship went down. Or maybe it was the other…
— Haruki Murakami
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Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell;
— Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward.
— John Steinbeck
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time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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O prejudice, prejudice, prejudice, how many hast thou destroyed! Men who might have been wise have remained fools because they thought they were wise. Many…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Every head turned to see two more security guards appear, each holding a Bagshaw by the back of the neck (which might have been considerably…
— Ally Carter
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He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself in order to preserve himself in…
— Angela Carter
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But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole.
— Kate DiCamillo
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We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.
— Terry Goodkind
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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…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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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…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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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…
— J R Ward
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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…
— Jon Krakauer
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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…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of…
— Paul Simon
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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…
— George R. R. Martin
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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…
— Cassandra Clare
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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…
— Mindy Kaling
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I don't want to live the rest of my life thinking about you and dreaming of what might have been. Stay with me, Allie.
— Nicholas Sparks
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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
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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…
— Bob Dole
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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
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