Might Have Been Quotes - Page 6

• To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have.

  Christopher Paolini

  Evil, Poison, Might

  Christopher Paolini (2011). “Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr Omnibus”, p.747, Random House

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• No real lady would let a dress that might have been worn by a stranger touch her skin.

  Cassandra Clare

  Real, Skins, Dresses

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• As she realized what might have been, she grew to be thankful for what was.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Being Thankful, Might, Grew

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “North and South”, p.73, Courier Corporation

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• But the thought arrived inside her like a train: Marya Morevna, all in black, here and now, was a point at which all the women she had been met—the Yaichkan and the Leningrader and the chyerti maiden; the girl who saw the birds, and the girl who never did—the woman she was and the woman she might have been and the woman she would always be, forever intersecting and colliding, a thousand birds falling from a thousand oaks, over and over.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Girl, Fall, Bird

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.346, Macmillan

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• Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets.

  William Faulkner

  Sorrow, Sound, Might

  William Faulkner (2016). “The Sound and the Fury (Third International Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.142, W. W. Norton & Company

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• So much paperwork to read! So much paperwork to push away! So much paperwork to pretend he hadn't received and that might have been eaten by gargoyles.

  Terry Pratchett

  Might, Gargoyles, Paperwork

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• Anyone who has ever tried to share pizza iwth roommates knows that Communism cannot ever work. If Lenin and Marx had just shard an apartment, perhaps a hundred million lives might have been spared and put to productive use making sneakers and office furniture.

  Daniel Suarez

  Sneakers, Office, Might

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• In another time, in another place, I wonder who they might have been.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Might, Wonder, Another Time

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.299, Simon and Schuster

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• Or at school you might have been prodded to come “out of your shell”—that noxious expression which fails to appreciate that some animals naturally carry shelter everywhere they go, and that some humans are just the same.

  Susan Cain

  School, Animal, Expression

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.6, Broadway Books

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• Blay said roughly,"I'm still in love with him" Saxton dropped his eyes and brushed at the top of his thigh, as if there might have been a tiny piece of lint there. " I know. You thought you weren't?

  J.R. Ward

  Eye, Pieces, Might

  J. R. Ward (2012). “Lover Reborn: Number 10 in series”, p.386, Hachette UK

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• For some reason, it didn’t feel right. Victor’s words seemed to confirm that. There was another reason that he’d come here. Falling in love with Elizabeth might have been part of it. But that wasn’t all. Something else was coming. There is more.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Falling In Love, Might, Reason

  Nicholas Sparks (2010). “The Lucky One”, p.155, Hachette UK

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• No second chance?" A wry smile twisted Carrick's lips. "There might have been, had I not waited so long to take it.

  Nora Roberts

  Second Chance, Wry Smile, Long

  Nora Roberts (2000). “Heart of the Sea”, p.93, Penguin

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• Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Farewell, Opportunity, Names

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “Sonnet XCVII: A Superscription”

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• Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward.

  John Steinbeck

  Might, Tendencies, Has Beens

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.91, Penguin

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• time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.

  T. S. Eliot

  Time, Past, Might

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.904, Faber & Faber

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• O prejudice, prejudice, prejudice, how many hast thou destroyed! Men who might have been wise have remained fools because they thought they were wise. Many judge what the gospel ought to be, but do not actually enquire as to what it is. They do not come to the Bible to obtain their views of religion, but they open that Book to find texts to suit the opinions which they bring to it. They are not open to the honest force of truth, and therefore are not saved by it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wise, Book, Men

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• Every head turned to see two more security guards appear, each holding a Bagshaw by the back of the neck (which might have been considerably less conspicuous had the Bagshaws not been dressed as chimney sweeps). Kat turned back to Hale. 'The Mary Poppins?' 'Seemed like a good idea at the time.

  Ally Carter

  Security Guards, Ideas, Two

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• I was never afraid to step out and make a decision. It might have been the wrong decision. I'm not afraid to tell somebody if I think they're wrong, as long as I know that I'm right. I would always try to make sure that I was right and then I'd voice my opinion.

  Michael E. Thornton

  Thinking, Voice, Long

  "A Portrait of Valor". American Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 5, 2001.

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• Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.

  Charles Dickens

  Might, Stairs, Lorry

  Charles Dickens (2010). “A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels”, p.62, Penguin

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• Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Inspirational, Sad, Regret

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.279, Dial Press

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• My own feeling about JJ, without knowing anything about him, was that he might have been a gay person, because he had long hair and spoke American. A lot of Americans are gay people, aren’t they? I know they didn’t invent gayness, because they say that was the Greeks. But they helped bring it back into fashion. Being gay was a bit like the Olympics: it disappeared in ancient times, and then they brought it back in the twentieth century. Anyway, I didn’t know anything about gays, so I just presumed they were all unhappy and wanted to kill themselves.

  Nick Hornby

  Fashion, Gay, Hair

  "A Long Way Down". Book by Nick Hornby, June 7, 2005.

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• Marc’s hand tightened visibly around Kevin’s fingers, his digits going white. Again. Both men clenched their jaws, Kevin in pain, and Marc in an obvious effort to control his temper and keep from breaking Kevin’s hand. Off. Why couldn’t guys find a more original way to test each other’s manly prowess? Arm wrestling might have been more subtle. Or maybe comparing the length of their…canines.

  Rachel Vincent

  Pain, Wrestling, Men

  Rachel Vincent (2016). “Rogue”, p.84, MIRA

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• Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.

  Charles Dickens

  Country, Mean, Hands

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.1

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• Love is fragile -- she was thinking -- but perhaps the pieces are saved, the things that hovered on lips, that might have been said. The new love-words, the tenderness learned, and treasured up for the next lover.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Love Is, Thinking, Pieces

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1994). “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz: And Other Stories”, p.67, Wordsworth Editions

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• ...the air so still it aches like the place where the tooth was on the morning after you’ve been to the dentist or aches like your heart in the bosom when you stand on the street corner waiting for the light to change and happen to recollect how things once were and how they might have been yet if what happened had not happened.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Morning, Heart, Light

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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