Might Have Been Quotes - Page 11

• I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted - if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Life, Might, Steps

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• In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.

  Amelia Barr

  Gratitude, Comfort, Events

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• The Society of North American Magic Realists welcomes its newest, most dazzling member, Louis Maistros. His debut novel is a thing of wonder, unlike anything in our literature. It startles. It stuns. It stupefies. No novel since CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES has done such justice to New Orleans. If Franz Kafka had been able to write like Peter Straub, this might have been the result.

  Donald Harington

  Writing, New Orleans, Justice

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• All I asked for was equality and independence. A rotating chairmanship might have been the answer.

  D. J. Enright

  Independence, Answers, Might

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• On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have been said of the sea. The Spray was in the midst of the turbulent Gulf Stream itself. She was jumping like a porpoise over the uneasy waves

  Joshua Slocum

  Jumping, Wind, Sea

  Joshua Slocum (2015). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.176, Booklassic

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• I can express gratitude for the simple act of being able to breathe in and breathe out. I can move away from darkness and depression to light and hope. I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be. I am me, the true me; you are you, the true you - and that's good. That's beautiful. That's enough.

  Janet Jackson

  Beautiful, Gratitude, Moving

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• A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Character, Law, Quality

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Charles Hartshorne, Paul Weiss, Arthur Walter Burks (1960). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce : Edited by Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss: Principles of philosophy and Elements of logic”

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• If I had been a winger, I might have been daydreaming and thinking about how to keep my kit clean for next week.

  Bill Beaumont

  Thinking, Next Week, Might

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• I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their ears, their tails complementarily adjusted, their blue eyes blinking open on a single thought of when I shall remember it's their supper time. They might have been composed by Bach for two flutes.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Cat, Eye, Nursing

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• The dream might have been more than a dream. It was as if a door in the wall of reality had come ajar... and now all sorts of unwelcome things were flying through.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Wall, Reality

  Stephen King (2016). “Insomnia”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the early 'fifties' what might have been the golden age of this speciality - photographers worked largely as the possessors of special and arcane skills, like the ancient priests who practiced and monopolized the skills of pictography or carving or manuscript illumination. In those halcyon days the photographer enjoyed a privileged status.

  John Szarkowski

  Photography, Illumination, Media

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• The world teaches birth control. Tragically, many of our sisters subscribe to its pills and practices when they could easily provide earthly tabernacles for more of our Father's children. We know that every spirit assigned to this earth will come, whether through us or someone else. There are couples in the Church who think they are getting along just fine with their limited families but who will someday suffer the pains of remorse when they meet the spirits that might have been part of their posterity.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Children, Couple, Pain

  Ezra Taft Benson (1974). “God, family, country: our three great loyalties”

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• Governments having failed the people, the people are entirely justified in assuming for themselves an essential role in government. Where a government takes proper measures to protect the people under its care, such a proceeding might have been thought both unnecessary and unjustifiable: But here it is quite the Reverse.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Government, People, Liberty

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• At night, in the garden, it occurs to you that it might have been your heart that left you as you reached the capital. Your heart might not have travelled well, closed up in its cavity, quivering and gnawing at the bars of your ribcage during the commute. It might be tracking north now, along edgelands, past spoil-heaps and stands of pylons, under motorway passes, back to the higher ground. Back to him.

  Sarah Hall

  Heart, Past, Night

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• I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.

  Janet Jackson

  Who I Am, Might, Should

  Janet Jackson (2011). “True You”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• Besides, we weren't made to battle villains, because there weren't any. No nation, creed, or race was any better or worse than another; all were flawed, all were equally doomed to suffering, mostly because they couldn't see that they were all alike. Mortals might have been contemptible, true, but not evil entirely. They did enjoy killing one another and frequently came up with ingenious excuses for doing so on a grand scale-religions, economic theories, ethnic pride-but we couldn't condemn them for it, as it was in their mortal natures and they were too stupid to know any better.

  Kage Baker

  Stupid, Pride, Race

  Kage Baker (2005). “In the Garden of Iden”, p.51, Macmillan

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• Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time.

  Ian Fleming

  Jobs, Might, Waste

  Ian Fleming (1961). “gilt-edged bonds”

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• There is a wealth of unexpressed love in the world. It is one of the chief causes of sorrow evoked by death: what might have been said or might have been done that never can be said or done.

  Arthur Hopkins

  Sorrow, Done, World

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• Al-Awlaki was born here, he is an American citizen. He was never tried or charged for any crimes. No one knows if he killed anybody. We know he might have been associated with the underwear bomber. But if the American people accept this blindly and casually that we now have an accepted practice of the president assassinating people who he thinks are bad guys, I think it's sad.

  Ron Paul

  Thinking, Practice, People

  "Anwar al-Awlaki killed in Yemen - as it happened", www.theguardian.com.

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• It's not about being upset about the things you might have said or done yesterday, which is quite appropriate at the moment. It's about looking forward rather than looking back. I hate people who look back on the past or talk about what might have been.

  Noel Gallagher

  Hate, Past, Yesterday

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• If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

  Bret Harte

  Might, Tongue, Ought

  'Mrs Judge Jenkins.'

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• There is more blood than paint upon these hands. All those thousands of men killed. We thought it would be a little job, and so it might have been if it had begun in the right way.

  Winston Churchill

  Jobs, War, Men

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• The Fed was largely responsible for converting what might have been a garden-variety recession, although perhaps a fairly severe one, into a major catastrophe. Instead of using its powers to offset the depression, it presided over a decline in the quantity of money by one-third from 1929 to 1933 ... Far from the depression being a failure of the free-enterprise system, it was a tragic failure of government.

  Milton Friedman

  Garden, Government, Investing

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• Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been there are totally unacceptable.

  Mikhail Saakashvili

  Might, Consideration, Deals

  "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer", www.edition.cnn.com. May 8, 2005.

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• It had the old double keyboard, an entirely different set of keys for capitals and figures, so that the paper seemed a long way off, and the machine was as big and solid as a battle cruiser. Typing was then a muscular activity. You could ache after it. If you were not familiar with those vast keyboards, your hand wandered over them like a child lost in a wood. The noise might have been that of a shipyard on the Clyde. You would no more have thought of carrying one of those grim structures as you would have thought of travelling with a piano.

  J. B. Priestley

  Children, Piano, Keys

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