Could Have Been Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by their wisest forethought.

  James Anthony Froude

  Mistake, Men, Issues

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• I name (Honus) Wagner first on my list, not only because he was a great batting champion and base-runner, and also baseball's foremost shortstop, but because Honus (Wagner) could have been first at any other position, with the possible exception of pitcher. In all my career, I never saw such a versatile player.

  John McGraw

  Baseball, Player, Names

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• No, those ears were not created by any chance coming together of atoms in nature (the Communist view). They could have been created only by immense design.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Views, Design, Together

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.16, Regnery Publishing

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• Michael Brown and Eric Garner died because they got into a confrontation that could have been easily avoided. That's what made their deaths so tragic.

  Mike Rowe

  Eric, Made, Brown

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• Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Trayvon, Has Beens

  Twitter post from Jul 19, 2013

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• If we cannot serve a person who we can see, how can we serve a God whom we cannot see? Some just have to have their own thing and be the “boss”. I grieve for these people who have become the King of their own tiny mound, when they could have been a Prince in a major organization.

  Phil Pringle

  Kings, Grieving, Organization

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• The boy in the pearl gray suit could have been Jane's twin. His hair was darker, and his lips were not as full, but he was just as lovely.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Boys, Hair, Lovely

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• You know, sometimes people never get to learn how successful they could have been because they give up too easily. If I've learned one thing in all my years in the business, it's that often things don't work out the way you want at first. But that doesn't mean you should give up.

  Russell Simmons

  Success, Giving Up, Business

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• The Houthi have local religious grievances, being Shiites in a majority Sunni land. But they are also agents of Shiite Iran, which arms, trains, and advises them. Their slogan - 'God is great. Death to America. Death to Israel' - could have been written in Persian.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Religious, Israel, Iran

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• I let one thing result from another. Of course, all of it could have been just loosely connected coincidences. And whether that's true or not, I know the intention was there. Becasue when I want something to happen-or not happen- I begin to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.

  Amy Tan

  Opportunity, Want Something, Events

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.152, Penguin

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• That was a surprise. I just had wished that Wil Wheaton was there. He was missing from the last show and it would have been nice if everyone could have been there.

  Denise Crosby

  Missing You, Nice, Lasts

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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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• 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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• Hope is a merciless tormentor. It's the sound of trickling water to parched lips. The prospect of love to the unlovable. A miracle cure to the parents of a dying child. It holds up victory over the inevitable and beckons us to crawl further over slicing shards, all the while pulling back, remaining just out of reach. It makes agony out of mere pain by pretending a different outcome could have been. It laughs at mankind's embrace of it after millennia of disappointment.

  Robert Liparulo

  Children, Pain, Disappointment

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• Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they're full of muscle. 'Copacabana' sounds like it could have been released yesterday.

  Barry Manilow

  Song, Years, Yesterday

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse and failure could have been avoided if there had been at least some rudimentary learning before they entered the partnership.

  Carl Rogers

  Marriage, Learning, Agony

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• The more I studied the Bible, however, I had to admit that the prosperity message did not line up with the tenor of Scripture.  My heart was crushd to think that I led so many people astray.  I was appalled that I could have been so wrong, and I was deeply grateful that God had not struck me dead as a false prophet.

  Jim Bakker

  Grateful, Heart, Thinking

  Ken Abraham, Jim Bakker (1998). “Prosperity and the Coming Apocalyspe”, p.23, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If I could have been anyone in the world, it would have been Ronaldinho. He's fantastic, I love watching him.

  Frank Lampard

  World, Fantastic, Has Beens

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• I mean, I was just one of the ones who got exposed, and because of the position I was in, where I was in my life, it went mainstream. A lot of people got out of it after my situation, not because I went to prison but because it was sad for them to see me go through something that was so pointless, that could have been avoided.

  Michael Vick

  Mean, People, Prison

  "The Impossible, Inevitable Redemption of Michael Vick" by Will Leitch, www.gq.com. August 18, 2011.

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