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For thence a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, - Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And… — Robert Browning
I've hung around in absolute exhaustion and starvation waiting for an idea to hit, which might have been months. I've talked things over with editors,… — Theodore Sturgeon
Children should learn to draw as they learn to write, and such a mystery should not be made of it. They should be encouraged, not… — William Morris Hunt
Had the Senate or House, or both, censured or somehow warned Richard Nixon, the tragedy of Watergate might have been prevented. Hopefully the Senate will… — John Dean
If other cows with mad cow disease were slaughtered, we wouldn't know where to begin looking for people who might have been affected, .. With… — Charles Schumer
Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens. — Alfred Bertram Guthrie
If you didn’t believe it before — and it’s easy to understand how you might have been sceptical on this point — if you didn’t… — David Letterman
The saddest thing of word or pen, To know the things that might have been. — John Greenleaf Whittier
You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly… — Brigham Young
Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is ironical and entertaining… — Dorothy L. Sayers
You should never start thinking about 'what might have been,' and you should also never start thinking about another boy when you're heartbroken over someone… — Lauren Barnholdt
What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at evoking a climate… — George Scialabba
There is that might-have-been which is the single rock we cling to above the maelstrom of unbearable reality. — William Faulkner
In the large sense the primary cause of the Great Depression was the war of 1914-1918. Without the war there would have been no depression… — Herbert Hoover
In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years… — Lady Gregory
You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will… — Francis Ford Coppola
So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might… — Marian Wright Edelman
It is never too late to be what you might have been. — George Eliot
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been. — George Eliot
And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less… — Black Elk
If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever. — Sally Field
I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had… — Gerald R. Ford
There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life.… — Hugh Jackman
But in another world, another life, probably growing up in another country, I might have been more of a dancer. — Hugh Jackman
But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at… — Waylon Jennings

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