Best Might Have Been Wisdom
323 Might Have Been quotes by 280 unique authors
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It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn't handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect…
— Shawn Johnson
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The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
— Robert E. Lee
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If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time,…
— Annie Lennox
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I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.
— Damian Lewis
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I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would…
— Dave Matthews
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People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an…
— Andre Maurois
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One night Roger was in a foul mood and he threw his entire bloody drumset across the stage. The thing only just missed me -…
— Freddie Mercury
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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world…
— Alice Paul
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It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.
— Christopher Reeve
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Most start-up companies fail and it is smart public policy to help entrepreneurs increase their odds of succeeding. But, the biggest loss to our economy…
— Eric Ries
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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
— Robert H. Schuller
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The Jersey Shore is the kind of place where the policeman has a little cottage that might have been in the family for years and…
— Bruce Springsteen
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If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.
— Lily Tomlin
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One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own…
— Evelyn Underhill
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For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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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 24 hours a…
— Lucinda Williams
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As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make…
— Tiger Woods
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My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us,…
— John Woolman
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Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than…
— Lewis Carroll
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But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric…
— George Eliot
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We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was progress in it? Or we yearn for…
— Dean Koontz
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Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them.
— Carl Jung
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What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed.
— Edward Gorey
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