Could Have Been Quotes - Page 5

• I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.

  Roger Waters

  Stupid, Silly, Thinking

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• But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.

  E. O. Wilson

  Dancing, Musical, Important

  "E.O. Wilson Is on Top of the World". Interview with Jill Neimark, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 1998.

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• And this is how I know that it's all just words, words, words - that fundamentally, they make no difference... Our relationship, for as long as things were good, and in that moment when they could have been good again, was about the irrelevance of words. You feel what you feel, you act as you act, who in the history of the world has ever been convinced by a well-reasoned argument?

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Irrelevance, Differences, Long

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• My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all, I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom. Everyone else in our family is dead.

  Shirley Jackson

  Dog, Hands, Years

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• People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don’t deserve them, or that they’ll be unable to achieve them. We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren’t, or of treasures that might have been found but were forever hidden in the sands. Because, when these things happen, we suffer terribly.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Heart, Thinking

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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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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• I got a washed out version of Mom’s curls and a better copy of Dad’s blue eyes, The rest of me, I guess, is up for grabs. Except maybe Gran’s nose, but she could have been trying to make me feel better. I’m no prize. Most girls go through a gawky stage, but I’m beginning to think mine will be a lifelong thing. It doesn’t bother me too much. Better to be strong than pretty and useless. I’ll take a plain girl with her head screwed on right over a cheerleader any day.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Girl, Mom, Strong

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• As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up and was, truth be told, sort of enjoying letting it out on Kona, who she felt could have been the poster child for the failure of public education.

  Christopher Moore

  Teacher, Children, School

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• There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Two, Feelings

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.509, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had.

  Shirley Jackson

  Hands, Two, Luck

  "We Have Always Lived in the Castle". Book by Shirley Jackson, www.elle.com. 1962.

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• Ralston didn't care. He turned on his brother as the surgeon knelt next to him and inspected the wound. "She could have been killed!" And what about you?" This time, it was Callie who spoke, her own pent-up energy releasing in anger, and the men turned as one to look at her, surprised that she and found her voice. "What about you and your idiotic pland to somehow restore my honor by playing guns out in the middle of nowhere with OXFORD?" She said the baron's name in disdain. "Like children? Of all the ridiculous, unnecessary, thoughtless, MALE things to do...who even FIGHTS duels anymore?!

  Sarah MacLean

  Brother, Children, Fighting

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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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• Over the last month I had pulled a woman from a blazing inferno. I had called fire and lighting down on assassins and escaped to safety. I had even killed something that could have been either a dragon or a demon, depending on your point of view. But there in that room was the first time I actually felt like any sort of hero. If you are looking for a reason for the man I would eventually become, if you are looking for a beginning, look there.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Hero, Men, Fire

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.494, Hachette UK

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• How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage another.

  Veronica Roth

  Simple, Decision, Ruins

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• It still amazes him how they could have been misled by her personality in Year Eleven. It's what depression does to a person, it changes them completely.

  Melina Marchetta

  Years, Personality, Doe

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• I wanted so much to keep you safe. I did my best. I'm sorry things didn't come out different for the two of us. I wish I could have been good enough for you.

  Juliet Marillier

  Sorry, Two, Wish

  Juliet Marillier (2008). “Child of the Prophecy: A Sevenwaters Novel 3”, p.249, Pan Australia

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• Procrastinating is number three on my Stupid List. You still end up exactly where you didn't want to be, doing exactly what you didn't want to do, withe the only difference being that you lost all that time in between, during which you could have been doing something fun. Even worse, you probably stayed in a stressed-out, crappy mood the whole time you were avoiding it. If you know something is inevitable, do it and get it over with. Move on. Life is short.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Fun, Stupid, Moving

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Oct 15, 2013

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• Things are what they are and there's no point dwelling in the past or wondering what could have been.

  Emily Giffin

  Past, Dwelling, Wonder

  Emily Giffin (2014). “The Emily Giffin Collection: Volume 2: Baby Proof, Where We Belong, Heart of the Matter”, p.1102, St. Martin's Press

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• I supposed, perhaps, you miss the promise of what could have been, while at the same time you are grateful that what it was instead is over.

  Sylvia Day

  Grateful, Missing, Promise

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• If the worst is going to happen, it'll happen. Worrying can't protect you from that. And if it doesn't happen then you've missed out on all the time that when you could have been having fun

  Alexandra Potter

  Fun, Worry, Protect You

  Alexandra Potter (2010). “The Two Lives of Miss Charlotte Merryweather: A Novel”, p.247, Penguin

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• They were almond cookies, although they could have been made of spinach and shoes for all I cared. I ate eleven of them, right in a row. It is rude to take the last cookie.

  Daniel Handler

  Shoes, Rude, Cookies

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• When Hale's hand disappeared inside his tuxedo jacket, Macey wasn't exactly sure what he'd find inside the pocket. It could have been another phone or a breath mint. Really, nothing would have surprised her. Well nothing except... "Is that an earbud?" she whispered. He smiled. "Are you on comms?" "Shhh," he told her softly.

  Ally Carter

  Phones, Hands, Pockets

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• She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate and defeated after winter. Peter Lake was at her side and it ruined him forever. It broke him as he had not ever imagined he could have been broken. He would never again be young, or able to remember what it was like to be young. What he had once taken to be pleasures would appear to him in his defeat as hideous and deserved punishments for reckless vanity.

  Mark Helprin

  Taken, Winter, Lakes

  Mark Helprin (1989). “Winter's Tale”, Pocket Books

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• I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.

  Enya

  Unnecessary, Has Beens, Ifs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Comfort kills! If your goal in life is to be comfortable, I guarantee two things. First, you will never be rich. Second, you will never be happy. Happiness doesn't come from living a lukewarm life, always wondering what could have been. Happiness comes as a result of being in our natural state of growth and living up to our fullest potential.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Two, Goal

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Mar 25, 2013

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