Could Have Been Quotes - Page 4

• How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

  Aristotle

  Argument, Disputes, Term

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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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• The team was going into transition. The team that we had could not continue to exist. Because of age, injury, it could not get to that same level. It had to change. I wish this team could have been frozen in time for 10 years, but that's not the reality.

  Geoff Petrie

  Team, Reality, Years

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• Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except a little ancient geography and history. The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank. During my whole life I have been singularly incapable of mastering any language. Especial attention was paid to versemaking, and this I could never do well. I had many friends, and got together a good collection of old verses, which by patching together, sometimes aided by other boys, I could work into any subject.

  Charles Darwin

  Teaching, Mean, School

  Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.25, VM eBooks

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• We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Discovery, Taught Us

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• I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

  Duffy Daugherty

  Football, Motivational Sports, College

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• I wished that I could have been down there because Paul actually wanted me to do the tour with him, but then he realized that it just wouldn't be right. It wouldn't be a solo tour anymore. It would look like just half of KISS.

  Eric Carr

  Kissing, Looks, Half

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• I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies when he could have done a lot of great ones.

  Patti Page

  Redneck, Actors, Done

  Interview with David Adams, www.elvis.com.au. November 29, 2005.

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• If with so little we have done so much in Brazil, imagine what could have been done on a global scale, if the fight against hunger and poverty were a real priority for the international community.

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Real, Fighting, Hunger And Poverty

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• When you can dump a load of bricks on a corner lot, and let me watch them arrange themselves into a house - when you can empty a handful of springs and wheels and screws on my desk, and let me see them gather themselves together into a watch - it will be easier for me to believe that all these thousands of worlds could have been created, balanced, and set to moving in their separate orbits, all without any directing intelligence at all.

  Bruce Barton

  Spring, Believe, Moving

  Masonic News, Volume 8, p. 181, 1927.

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• Chamberlain's stubborn, fanatical insistence on giving Hitler what he wanted, his trips to Berchtesgaden and Godesberg and finally the fateful journey to Munich rescued Hitler from his limb and strengthened his position in Europe, in Germany, in the Army, beyond anything that could have been imagined a few weeks before. It also added immeasurably to the power of the Third Reich vis-a-vis the Western democracies and the Soviet Union.

  William L. Shirer

  Army, Journey, Europe

  "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany". Book by William L. Shirer, 1960.

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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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• To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• If he had to have strange powers, Aden wished they could have been more like hers. That voodoo voice would have made his life a lot easier; he could have sent certain people (cough Ozzie cough) away with no memory of him.

  Gena Showalter

  Memories, Voice, People

  Gena Showalter (2010). “Intertwined”, p.158, Harlequin

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