Could Have Been Quotes - Page 3

• If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Wonder, Discouraged, Has Beens

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• The religion of the God who became man has met the religion (for such it is) of man who makes himself God. And what happened? Was there a clash, a battle, a condemnation? There could have been, but there was none

  Pope Paul VI

  Men, Battle, Mets

  Pope Paul VI, United States Catholic Conference (1968). “Pope Paul says ...: translations of some of Pope Paul's addresses”

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• No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places perhaps irreparably - our life has been, we cannot in our heart of hearts imagine how it could have been different. As we look back on it, it slips in behind us in orderly array, and, with all its mistakes, acquires a sort of eternal fitness, and even, at times, of poetic glamour.

  Randolph Bourne

  Mistake, Heart, Reflection

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• I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better.

  John Breaux

  Done, Boat, Congress

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• I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.

  Armistead Maupin

  Life, Mistake, People

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• The P.A.S.T. preventative screening and treatment programs are a must for all players. We can extend our lives and live a healthy and pain free life. The programs are very comprehensive. We have lost several players at a young age, maybe the loss of some of our players could have been prevented with the prevention, knowledge, and treatment that P.A.S.T. provides.

  James Worthy

  Pain, Loss, Player

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• It was five, but it could have been six, seven or eight goals, in my opinion.

  Robin van Persie

  Eight, Goal, Six

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• A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

  Victor Hugo

  Fighting, Museums, People

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• That could have been his second yellow card - if he'd already got his first one of course

  Trevor Brooking

  Football, Yellow, Cards

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• Representatives of the American intelligence agencies - and I hope they won't be angry - but they could have been more professional, and the diplomats as well. After they found out that he was flying to us, and that he was flying as a transit passenger, there was pressure from all sides - from the Americans, from the Europeans - instead of just letting him go to a country where they could operate easily.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Gay, Agency

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• The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.

  Witter Bynner

  Mistake, Decision, World

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• These days, I find I'm applying a little more patience to my process. If I look back on my work, I can see those songs I bailed on could have been better, that had those great two verses and then I kind of coasted from there. These days, if a song is giving me trouble, I put it aside and pick it up later, and keep doing that, for a year if I have to, until it takes shape.

  Ani DiFranco

  Song, Writing, Years

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• I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead - the guy could have been working for Andy Warhol!

  J. G. Ballard

  War, Fire, Guy

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• Some speak of a return to nature, I wonder where they could have been?

  Frederick Sommer

  Photography, Return, Photographer

  Frederick Sommer, John Weiss, University of Delaware. Dept. of Art, Delaware Art Museum (1980). “Venus, Jupiter & Mars: the photographs of Frederick Sommer : an exhibition at the Delaware Art Museum from April 27 through June 8, 1980”

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• I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Children, Middle Child, Way

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• My father could have been a great comedian, but he didn't believe that that was possible for him, and so he made a conservative choice. Instead, he got a safe job as an accountant. When I was 12 years old, he was let go from that safe job, and our family had to do whatever we could to survive. I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which was that you can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

  Jim Carrey

  Letting Go, Jobs, Father

  "Jim Carrey's inspiring commencement speech" by Lisa Respers France, www.cnn.com. May 28, 2014.

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• There was a time I could have been mistaken for Burt Reynolds. I had a moustache and so did he. But he was the number one star in the world, so there wasn't really much confusion

  Tom Selleck

  Stars, Numbers, Confusion

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• Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person

  Julian Bond

  People, News, Detroit

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• Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.

  Isabelle Adjani

  Blessing, Boredom, Has Beens

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  Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Scared, Sometimes, Has Beens

  "The Osbournes". TV Series, 2002-2005.

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• I'm never a person who likes anything I've done. It's just the way it is. Twenty years later, I can look at something I did, and I'm still thinking, 'You know, that could have been better if you had done it this way or that way.

  Robert Guillaume

  Thinking, Years, Done

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• I pulled out the manuscript [from the envelope] and a great big stiff cardboard finger sprung up. This is someone that was so certain they would be rejected, they would be getting their revenge in advance. I was lucky - it could have been a pipe bomb.

  Gardner Dozois

  Revenge, Sprung Up, Would Be

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• There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now.

  Richard Thompson

  Wish, Too Late, Poet

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• I'm Starting With The Man In The Mirror I'm Asking Him To Change His Ways And No Message Could Have Been Any Clearer If You Wanna Make The World A Better Place Take A Look At Yourself, And Then Make A Change

  Michael Jackson

  Change, Men, Mirrors

  Song: Man in the Mirror, Album: Bad

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• I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'

  Nicole Kidman

  Positive, Break Up, Heartbroken

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Nov 25, 2016

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