Might Have Been Quotes - Page 12

• Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies are acting remarkably cleanly. And in some cases, although not all cases, the CEOs are the driving forces behind that.

  Jared Diamond

  Years, Acting, Twenties

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• Day was breaking at Plashwater Weir Mill Lock. Stars were yet visible, but there was dull light in the east that was not the light of night. The moon had gone down, and a mist crept along the banks of the river, seen through which the trees were the ghosts of trees, and the water was the ghost of water. This earth looked spectral, and so did the pale stars: while the cold eastern glare, expressionless as to heat or colour, with the eye of the firmament quenched, might have been likened to the stare of the dead.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Stars, Eye

  Charles Dickens (1873). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.317

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• My entire stay there [high school] might have been time lost if it hadn't been for the unique personality of a brilliant teacher. Miss Kirwin was that rare educator who was in love with information. I will always believe that her love of teaching came not so much from her liking for students but from her desire to make sure that some of the things she knew would find repositories so that they could be shared again.

  Maya Angelou

  Teacher, Teaching, Believe

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.166, Modern Library

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• Another occupation might have been better.

  F. H. Bradley

  Occupation, Might, Has Beens

  F.H. Bradley, Carol Keene (1999). “F.H. Bradley: Miscellaneous Writings”, Thoemmes

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• It might have been the hardest hit I took all day.

  Drew Brees

  Nfl, Hardest Hit, Might

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• If I wanted to make a quick buck, there's far easier ways of doing it. What I want is to provoke people. If you want a hit song, all you need to do is rewrite an old song. It might have been proven to work, but you won't be remembered the same way.

  Avicii

  Song, People, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Overwhelming and astounding inequality,especially when it has an element of the unattainable, arouses far less envy than minimal inequality, which inevitably causes the envious to think: I might have been in his place.

  Helmut Schoeck

  Thinking, Envy, Causes

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• You can't afford to think about what might have been. You just be aware of what is.

  Noel Gallagher

  Thinking, Might, Has Beens

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• I was a protestor. I was such a protestor that I regularly protested things that might have been good for me.

  Maria Dahvana Headley

  Might, Has Beens

  Maria Dahvana Headley (2007). “The Year of Yes”, Hyperion

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• Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal.

  Max Schmeling

  War, Victory, Criminals

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• God will turn the might have been into a wonderful culture for the future.

  Oswald Chambers

  Culture, Might, Wonderful

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.284, Discovery House

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• Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.

  B. F. Skinner

  Men, Years, Twenties

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• Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, Some pure ideal of a noble life That once seemed possible? Did we not hear The flutter of its wings, and feel it near, And just within our reach? It was. And yet We lost it in this daily jar and fret, And now live idle in a vague regret; But still our place is kept, and it will wait, Ready for us to fill it, soon or late. No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been.

  Adelaide Anne Procter

  Stars, Regret, Wings

  "A Legend of Provence" l. 284 (1861)

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• God sends the dawn that we might see the might-have-beens that still might be.

  Robert Breault

  Hope, Dawn, Might

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• We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Might, Common, Has Beens

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1841). “Life and literary remains of L.E.L. [ed.] by L. Blanchard”

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• Ah, in this world, where every guiding thread Ends suddenly in the one sure centre, death, The visionary hand of Might-have-been Alone can fill Desire's cup to the brim!

  James Russell Lowell

  Regret, Hands, Desire

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.88

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• Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness.

  Gilbert Highet

  Teaching, Effort, Energy

  GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”

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• There's always something in the game you wish you would have done different. That's why players improve, because they learn from what they did before. They might have been guessing before, but now they know.

  Gordie Howe

  Player, Games, Wish

  Interview with Arash Markazi, www.si.com. May 15, 2009.

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• Once the threshold is crossed when there is a self-sustaining level of life in space, then life's long-range future will be secure irrespective of any of the risks on Earth. Will this happen before our technological civilization disintegrates, leaving this as a might-have-been? Will the self-sustaining space communities be established before a catastrophe sets back the prospect of any such enterprise, perhaps foreclosing it forever? We live at what could be a defining moment for the cosmos.

  Martin Rees

  Moon, Civilization, Space

  "Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning". Book by Martin Rees, 2003.

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• I don't work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister.

  Ken Livingstone

  Hard Work, Might, Enough

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• I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s.

  Wim Wenders

  Thinking, Bored, Might

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• The thing that you're faulted on today is not that you are too tough, or not that you aren't careful. It's that you might have been too soft. People want that red meat now because you have to keep up with the mood and the mood today is harsh. It really is.

  Mark Russell

  People, Meat, Want

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• If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk.

  Steve Carell

  Levels, Might, Jerk

  "Steve Carell Says Comedy Has Become 'Uber-Cynical,' 'Borderline Mean'" by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 1, 2012.

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• The bad press came because they thought I should fight more. I couldn't get the fights because if I would sign to fight one of King's guys I would be signed to him. I chose not to do that. In hindsight, that might have been a mistake.

  Gerry Cooney

  Kings, Mistake, Fighting

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

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• If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't.

  Garet Garrett

  Dollar Bills, Dollars, Might

  Garet Garrett (1965). “The people's pottage”, Caxton Printers

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