Might Have Been Quotes - Page 19

• There's a tradition of reenactment in documentary which is about sort of illustrating what the past might have been like.

  Joshua Oppenheimer

  Past, Might, Documentaries

  "Filmmaker Interview". "POV", www.pbs.org. October 6, 2014.

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• You might have been able to fool people the first time, or something, but you really can't make a successful sequel today unless people really, really liked the predecessor.

  Neal H. Moritz

  Successful, People, Might

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm kind of happy to know there may be some kid or teenager now who might never have had the chance to see my Broadway performance, but gets a taste for what it might have been like now, because they can see Clint Eastwood's film."

  John Lloyd Young

  Teenager, Kids, Broadway

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We might have been better off if the question of Obama's patriotism had been raised before he was first elected. Never should we ignore so many red flag warnings again.

  Thomas Sowell

  Red Flags, Warning, Might

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• In all disputes, a point is arrived at where no party, no matter how right or wrong it might have been at the start of that dispute, will any longer be totally in the right or totally in the wrong. Such a point I believe, has been reached in this debate... Let us not equivocate. A tragedy of unprecedented proportions is unfolding in Africa.

  Nelson Mandela

  Party, Believe, Tragedy

  "Mandela's Aids speech: Excerpts". news.bbc.co.uk. July 14, 2000.

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• He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with which he was only too familiar, that of walking in a giant sphere of worry, enclosed by it, watching his own terrors roll by, obscuring the outside world.

  J. K. Rowling

  Glasses, Worry, Dining

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• He raised his eyes. "Sister. See. This time I knew you." Asha's heart skipped a beat. "Theon?" His lips skinned back in what might have been a grin. Half his teeth were gone, and half those still left him were broken and splintered. "Theon," he repeated. "My name is Theon. You have to know your name.

  George R. R. Martin

  Heart, Eye, Names

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• They say you cannot love two people equally at once,” she said. “And perhaps for others that is so. But you and Will—you are not like two ordinary people, two people who might have been jealous of each other, or who would have imagined my love for one of them diminished by my love of the other. You merged your souls when you were both children. I could not have loved Will so much if I had not loved you as well. And I could not love you as I do if I had not loved Will as I did.

  Cassandra Clare

  Children, Princess, Love You

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Princess”, p.564, Simon and Schuster

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• I guess nothing puts a damper on a one-night stand as much as your friend pointing out all the opportunities where you might have been killed.

  Mindy Kaling

  Opportunity, Night, Might

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.155, Crown/Archetype

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• To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.

  Chester Barnard

  Inspirational, Failure, Learning

  Chester Irving Barnard (1968). “The Functions of the Executive”, p.26, Harvard University Press

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• Sure, losing an election hurts, but I've experienced worse. And at an age when every day is precious, brooding over what might have been is self-defeating. In conceding the 1996 election, I remarked that "tomorrow will be the first time in my life I don't have anything to do." I was wrong. Seventy-two hours after conceding the election, I was swapping wisecracks with David Letterman on his late-night show.

  Bob Dole

  Hurt, Night, Self

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• I do not look back at what might have been. If I did that, playing golf would drive me crazy.

  Tiger Woods

  Crazy, Athlete, Golf

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• Might have been a time when I loved her too but you take that away and you'll always be the one.

  Drake

  Relationship, True Love, Humble

  Song: Make Me Proud

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• What was done with the seed saved from the India Hemp last summer? It ought, all of it, to have been sewn again; that not only a stock of seed sufficient for my own purposes might have been raised, but to have disseminated the seed to others; as it is more valuable than the common Hemp.

  George Washington

  Summer, Marijuana, Hemp

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• As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a point of savoring such things as the tastiness of a piece of fruit, or other small things we might have been prone to overlook during our younger, busier days.

  Rumer Godden

  Being Sad, Age, Pieces

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• Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.

  George Santayana

  Knowledge, Different, May

  "Persons and Places: My host the world".

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• Be who you are, said the Duchess to Alice, or, if you would like it put more simply, never try to be what you might have been or could have been other than what you should have been.

  Lewis Carroll

  Destiny, Should Have, Be Who You Are

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• It completely sickens me what our culture is doing to women. Last week I wore a big top and little shorts and a bunch of stuff came out saying I was without pants. 'The No-Pants Look,' it said. And I didn't go out without pants, I had shorts on... If Olivia Wilde had gone to a party with a big silky top and little shorts she might have been told her outfit was cute... What it was really: 'Why did you show us your thighs?'

  Lena Dunham

  Cute, Party, Gone

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• How dangerous it is rashly to adopt the Mosaical institutions [Old Testament teachings of eye for an eye]. Laws might have been proper for a tribe of ardent barbarians wandering through the sands of Arabia which are wholly unfit for an enlightened people of civilized and gentle manners.

  Gerald Heaney

  Teaching, Eye, Law

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• Whoever prays is certainly saved. He who does not is certainly damned. All the blessed have been saved by prayer. All the damned have been lost through not praying. If they had prayed they would not have been lost. And this is, and will be their greatest torment in hell: to think how easily they might have been saved, just by asking God for His grace, but that now it is too late - their time of prayer is gone.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Prayer, Blessed, Thinking

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• To answer the purpose of the adversaries of the Constitution, they ought to prove, not merely that particular provisions in it are not the best, which might have been imagined; but that the plan upon the whole is bad and pernicious.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Answers, Might, Purpose

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.322, Coventry House Publishing

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• What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.

  John Berger

  Art, Sky, People

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• I might have been born in a hovel, but I determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

  Jacqueline Cochran

  Stars, Wind, Might

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• At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.

  Imelda Staunton

  Envy, Looks, Exotic

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• If I could take a punch like that, I might have been able to think up a name besides George for all my sons.

  George Foreman

  Son, Thinking, Names

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