Might Have Been Quotes - Page 3

• During my time, there might have been one pitcher or two that were top pitchers on a team. Teams that won maybe had three, but today they have a lot of depth. They have a lot of long relievers, short relievers, and the strategy is different.

  Ernie Banks

  Sports, Team, Two

  Interview with Darrell Horwitz, bleacherreport.com. 2004.

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• But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.

  Waylon Jennings

  Believe, Might, Stuff

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• But in another world, another life, probably growing up in another country, I might have been more of a dancer.

  Hugh Jackman

  Country, Growing Up, Dancer

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• There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been.

  Hugh Jackman

  People, How You Feel, Might

  FaceBook post by Hugh Jackman from Jan 20, 2013

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• In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.

  Lady Gregory

  Years, People, Advice

  Lady Gregory (1970). “The Collected Plays: The tragedies and tragic-comedies”, Colin Smythe

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• I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Sports, Football, Names

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• So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Sadness, President Kennedy's Assassination, Promise

  "Ask What You Can Do For Your Country" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2013.

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• You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Courage, Memorable, Ideas

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• I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience.

  Jim Carrey

  Blow, House, Going Away

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• I was Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. As you know, there are twelve banks and they have their citizens board, and I got elected to the Fed Chairmanship for the Federal Reserve Kansas City Bank back in the mid-'90s. It might have been 1995-'96.

  Herman Cain

  Cities, Kansas City, Twelve

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• I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Mistake, Learning, Advice

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• This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.

  Alice Paul

  Different, World, Might

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• There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the people in question have lived relatively comfortable, middle class lives. They function perfectly well in the world, but you can imagine, given a nasty parent, or a prolonged bout of unemployment, how their potential for craziness might have been realized.

  Zoë Heller

  Class, People, Parent

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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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• Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.

  Jasper Fforde

  Real, Ink, Odor

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• And what an example of the power of dress young Oliver Twist was! Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his only covering, he might have been the child of a nobleman or a beggar;—it would have been hard for the haughtiest stranger to have fixed his station in society. But now he was enveloped in the old calico robes, that had grown yellow in the same service; he was badged and ticketed, and fell into his place at once—a parish child—the orphan of a workhouse—the humble, half-starved drudge—to be cuffed and buffeted through the world, despised by all, and pitied by none.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Humble, Yellow

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• What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed.

  Edward Gorey

  Might, Has Beens

  Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin

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• Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them.

  Carl Jung

  Pieces, Might, Emotion

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances.

  Dean Koontz

  Past, Second Chance, Yesterday

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Brother Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.18, Bantam

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• One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of your parents might have been: If you perform the same experiment that someone else did, at a different time and place, you'll get the same result.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Parent, Different, Might

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• If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.

  Lily Tomlin

  Funny, Sarcastic, Eyeglasses

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• There might have been a period around 'Tango & Cash' when I was nearly fashionable. My problem is that my weight's always been changing for the movies I'm in.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Weight, Cash, Might

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• The Jersey Shore is the kind of place where the policeman has a little cottage that might have been in the family for years and many other people call home.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Home, Years, People

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• Most start-up companies fail and it is smart public policy to help entrepreneurs increase their odds of succeeding. But, the biggest loss to our economy is not all the start-ups that didn't make it: It's the ones that might have been created but weren't.

  Eric Ries

  Smart, Loss, Odds

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• It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.

  Christopher Reeve

  Might, Harps, Considering

  "Man of steel" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2002.

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