Best Might Have Been Words
323 Might Have Been quotes by 280 unique authors
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Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but…
— Norman Wisdom
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Besides, we weren't made to battle villains, because there weren't any. No nation, creed, or race was any better or worse than another; all were…
— Kage Baker
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Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time.
— Ian Fleming
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There is a wealth of unexpressed love in the world. It is one of the chief causes of sorrow evoked by death: what might have…
— Arthur Hopkins
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Al-Awlaki was born here, he is an American citizen. He was never tried or charged for any crimes. No one knows if he killed anybody.…
— Ron Paul
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It's not about being upset about the things you might have said or done yesterday, which is quite appropriate at the moment. It's about looking…
— Noel Gallagher
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If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but…
— Bret Harte
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There is more blood than paint upon these hands. All those thousands of men killed. We thought it would be a little job, and so…
— Winston Churchill
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The Fed was largely responsible for converting what might have been a garden-variety recession, although perhaps a fairly severe one, into a major catastrophe. Instead…
— Milton Friedman
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Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been there are totally…
— Mikhail Saakashvili
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It had the old double keyboard, an entirely different set of keys for capitals and figures, so that the paper seemed a long way off,…
— J. B. Priestley
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Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies are acting remarkably…
— Jared Diamond
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Day was breaking at Plashwater Weir Mill Lock. Stars were yet visible, but there was dull light in the east that was not the light…
— Charles Dickens
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My entire stay there [high school] might have been time lost if it hadn't been for the unique personality of a brilliant teacher. Miss Kirwin…
— Maya Angelou
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Another occupation might have been better.
— F. H. Bradley
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It might have been the hardest hit I took all day.
— Drew Brees
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If I wanted to make a quick buck, there's far easier ways of doing it. What I want is to provoke people. If you want…
— Avicii
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Overwhelming and astounding inequality,especially when it has an element of the unattainable, arouses far less envy than minimal inequality, which inevitably causes the envious to…
— Helmut Schoeck
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You can't afford to think about what might have been. You just be aware of what is.
— Noel Gallagher
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I was a protestor. I was such a protestor that I regularly protested things that might have been good for me.
— Maria Dahvana Headley
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Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have…
— Max Schmeling
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God will turn the might have been into a wonderful culture for the future.
— Oswald Chambers
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Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is…
— B.F. Skinner
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Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, Some pure ideal of a noble life That once seemed possible? Did we not hear The flutter…
— Adelaide Anne Procter
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God sends the dawn that we might see the might-have-beens that still might be.
— Robert Breault
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