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“My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.”

Has Beens Fear Knees Could Have Been Spoons

Source: With Malice Toward Some

“Without the parallel development of systems of monetary - and credit-based exchange - there could have been no development of economies beyond the most primitive organizational forms and the most geographically restricted sales.”

Has Beens Form Economy Development Credit Primitive Parallels Could Have Been Monetary Organizational

Author:Peter Dicken

“Polite conservationists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.”

Has Beens Earth Mark Scar Polite Could Have Been

Author:David R. Brower

“I see the beauty in boxing. It teaches me strength physically, but mostly mentally. I had to learn my strength, because for so long I could have been tougher than I was.”

Long Has Beens Teach Boxing Could Have Been

Author:Kelly Rowland

“I have a profound admiration for Fellini. I met him lately and he's just fantastic. I feel very close to him even though he's very Italian. But his films could have been made in every country. When I say, I feel close to him, then also because we're both born on January 20th.”

Feels Has Beens Made Country Film Born Mets Profound Fantastic Admiration Italian Could Have Been January

Author:David Lynch

“It was my view that the catastrophe. . . . could have been avoided if Vasilevsky had taken the position he should have. He could have taken a different position. . . . but he didn't do that, and as a result, in my view, he had a hand in the destruction of thousands of Red Army fighters in the Kharkov campaign.”

Ifs Should Has Beens Different Hands Results Views Taken Position Red Destruction Should Have Army Campaigns Fighter Catastrophe Could Have Been Avoided Red Army

Author:Aleksandr Vasilevsky

“No one could have been more surprised than I at my successes, and yet deep within me there was acknowledgment that had I not succeeded, I would have been equally surprised.”

Has Beens Success Could Have Been Deep Within Acknowledgment

Author:Margery Wilson

“I would have preferred to have been in a film where I could've been more authentic or more human, where the dialogue and my approach to the part could have been more real.”

Humans Has Beens Real Film Approach Dialogue Could Have Been

Author:Troy Donahue

“World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.”

World Has Beens War Inevitable War Of The Worlds Historian World War I Negotiation Could Have Been Avoided

Author:Richard Holbrooke

“I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If wed had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.”

Ifs Has Beens Passion Discipline My Sister Could Have Been Violin Clarinet

Author:Sara Zarr

“I think men can really get in the way when you are trying to sort your life out and get on with it. Because they just take up so much space. I'm not under any illusions that I could have been where I am now in literary terms if I had been heterosexual. I really believe I would not be.”

Ifs Thinking Men Way Trying Believe Has Beens Term Space Illusion Could Have Been Literary Terms

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“If I had an extra 20 or 50 years physically, I could have been the dancer of my dreams. But I never became that dancer.”

Ifs Years Has Beens Dream Extras Dancer Could Have Been

Author:Erik Bruhn

“To this day I am not convinced of having brought together with me in Germany the technically best players that could have been. But I was firmly convinced I called the ones that could create a team, and they could play with one another to the best of their possibility. In this day and age you win if you become a team. It doesn't necessarily mean that you've got to have the best football players in the country. It's possible that the best, all together, don't become a team. It's like a mosaic, you have to put all the pieces together.”

Ifs Mean Has Beens Country Play Age Together Winning Pieces Player Team Possibility Football Convinced Germany This Day Could Have Been Best Players Best Football Football Player Mosaics

Author:Marcello Lippi

“That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable.”

Years Has Beens Education Four Four Years Could Have Been Harvard Improbable

Author:Arthur Brisbane

“And so matching by itself is incapable of creating an art of reckoning. Without our ability to arrange things in ordered succession little progress could have been made. Correspondence and succession, the two principles that permeate all mathematics - nay, all realms of exact thought - are woven into the very fabric of our number system.”

Source: Number, the Language of Science: A Critical Survey Written for the Cultured Non-mathematician

“A sense of that kind of narrative movement that we experience online could have been in my mind easily, though not consciously. I do rely so much on my unconscious, the way I write my stuff the way I do. I let my unconscious work. I have better ideas that way and more interesting work.”

Way Writing Mind Kind Has Beens Ideas Stuff Interesting Movement Narrative Rely Unconscious Online Could Have Been

Author:Jennifer Egan

“Drugs is a society problem. It ain't just isolated to sports or entertainment. There's people that are doing brain surgeries that probably have dabbled in drugs. There may be some, judges and lawyers involved in the case could have been involved. So it's a problem in all society.”

People May Has Beens Problem Sports Brain Cases Judging Involved Drug Entertainment Lawyer Isolated Surgery Could Have Been Brain Surgery

Author:Dave Parker

“I hate auditioning; it makes me more nervous than anything ever, and I always feel like I wasted my time and I could have been creating my own thing. With the Internet, you have so much freedom that 'gatekeepers' make me terrified.”

Feels Has Beens Hate My Own Internet Creating I Hate Nervous My Time Terrified Could Have Been Gatekeepers Wasted My Time

Author:Grace Helbig

“Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.”

Has Beens Moments Lost Millions Resources Celebrate Opponents Historic Could Have Been True Nature Advocacy Guerrillas

Author:Aberjhani

“My career could have been prolonged for longer”

Has Beens Careers Could Have Been

Author:Micky Quinn

“If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before. I mean, I produced a Frank Sinatra special - Elizabeth Taylor, with Michael Jackson, Gregory Peck, I won't even take a picture.”

Ifs Mean Has Beens Wanted Special Frank Could Have Been

Author:David Gest

“Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that's the one that is going to require the most from you. Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?”

Want Looks Has Beens Choices Wonderful Empowering Scare Could Have Been Empowering Women Women Empowering Women

Author:Caroline Myss

“Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.”

Way Has Beens Self Play Use Might Night Asks Games Given Process Powerful Behavior Negative Could Have Been Neurotic Old Love

Author:Marianne Williamson

“You cannot prove this in real time, but when economists 20 years from now write a book on the recovery, it may well be entitled, It could have been much better.”

Writing Years Wells May Has Beens Book Real Prove Recovery Entitled Economist Could Have Been

Author:Jamie Dimon

“I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.”

Feels Has Beens Said Book Lasts Poetry Literature Careers Stage Could Have Been

Book:Literary Occasions: Essays

Source: Literary Occasions: Essays

“My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.”

Has Beens Father Daughter Conservative Could Have Been Public Life Innovators

Author:Rose Kennedy

“Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver could have been president. I could go on with a list of black men that were qualified to be the president of the United States. So the Obama victory is progress for white people.”

People Men Years Has Beens States Black President White United United States Progress Goes On Victory Lists Black People Could Have Been Qualified Carver

Author:Chris Rock

“We are here lounging our time away, doing nothing, and having nothing to do. It gives me great regret to be passing my time so uselessly when it could have been so importantly employed at home.”

Giving Has Beens Home Regret Give Me Passing Passings Our Time My Time Wasting Time Employed Idleness Could Have Been Doing Nothing Time Away Lounging

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart, some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand--a center of gravity.”

Source: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

“... some of my people could have been left [in Africa] and are living there. And I can't understand them and they don't know me and I don't know them because all we had was taken away from us. And I became kind of angry; I felt the anger of why this had to happen to us. We were so stripped and robbed of our background, we wind up with nothing.”

People Knows Kind Has Beens I Can Happens Left Felt Taken Wind Slavery Angry Backgrounds Oppression Know Me Could Have Been

Author:Fannie Lou Hamer

“The most important step of all is the first step. Start something! What if that idea you have in the back of your head is a really good one, one that might end up helping tens of thousands of people? You owe it to the world ot act. Or maybe it will help only a few people: The same advice applies. If you don't do it, you are missing out on something big, and so are the people who could have been helped.”

“We throw away what we could have been and waste our opportunities. We each have a purpose, a destiny, and to realize it, we must reach beyond what we think we are capable of.”

Thinking Has Beens Purpose Opportunity Realizing Destiny Waste Capable Could Have Been

Author:Colleen Houck

“Carles Puyol is a Barcelona legend. He could have been playing every two weeks but he has shown dignity until the end.”

Has Beens Two Ends Week Dignity Legends Could Have Been Two Weeks Barcelona

Author:Cesc Fabregas

“Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?”

People Has Beens Party Could Have Been

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“One year, I'd completely lost my bearings trying to follow potty training instruction from a psychiatric expert. I was stuck on step on, which stated without an atom of irony: "Before you begin, remove all stubbornness from the child." . . . I knew it only could have been written by someone whose suit coat was still spotless at the end of the day, not someone who had any hands-on experience with an actual two-year-old.”

“When a couple gets to the last stage, one or both partners may have an affair. But an affair is usually a symptom of a dying marriage, not the cause. The end of that marriage could have been predicted long before either spouse strayed.”

May Long Has Beens Ends Lasts Causes Stage Dying Couple Affair Partners Spouse Symptoms Could Have Been Adultery

Author:John M. Gottman

“God knows we have our own demons to be cast out, our own uncleanness to be cleansed. Neurotic anxiety happens to be my own particular demon, a floating sense of doom that has ruined many of what could have been, should have been, the happiest days of my life, and more than a few times in my life I have been raised from such ruins, which is another way of saying that more than a few times in my life I have been raised from death - death of the spirit anyway, death of the heart - by the healing power that Jesus calls us both to heal with and to be healed by.”

“No husband of mine will say, "I could have been a drummer, but I had to think about the wife and kids. You know how it is." Nobody supports me at the expense of his own adventure.”

Thinking Knows Has Beens Kids Support Know How Wife Mines Adventure Husband Expenses Could Have Been Drummer Support Me

Book:The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

Source: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

“I'm from Louisiana, and that's where I got my start, in Cajun music. There's a huge music scene down there centered around our culture. Those are people that are not making music for a living. They are making music for the fun of it. And I think that's the best way I could have been introduced to music.”

People Thinking Way Has Beens Culture Fun Huge Scene Best Way Could Have Been Louisiana Cajuns

Author:Hunter Hayes

“So let us raise a cheer ... for the insatiable spirit of Man eager for all new things! What a tale could have been written by that far off man who first saw a tree trunk roll and made a wheel and cart and harnessed in his mare and cracked his whip and drove away to disappear beyond the hill! Or that first man who made a boat and raised a sail and disappeared hull down to unknown shores!”

“I often find things at thrift stores and library sales that I never could have been looking for. In those cases, the research is done after the fact to figure out what, exactly, I've found. It's surprising how much out there still has no online presence.”

Has Beens Stills Done Facts Found Cases Figures Research Library Stores Online Surprising Could Have Been Thrift

Author:Michael Dumontier

“I took a year of karate. It was like obligatory... every kid was taking like one year of karate and one year of piano in my town. It was Bruce Lee and Liberace. But I was not a white belt. I graduated. I had a colour belt - but that's all you need to know. It could have been black, it could have been yellow, or it could have been anything in between.”

Knows Needs Years Has Beens Kids Black White Towns Piano Colour Yellow Belts Could Have Been Karate

Author:Jack Black

“Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect. Somewhere, somehow, we screwed up. It could have been in design, build, or test. Whatever it was, we should have caught it. We were too gung ho about the schedule and we locked out all of the problems we saw each day in our work. Every element of the program was in trouble and so were we. The simulators were not working, Mission Control was behind in virtually every area, and the flight and test procedures changed daily.”

Source: Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond

“I think the craziest thing I've seen is probably a fan sleeping overnight for two nights before a show, which was probably a bit excessive - they still probably could have been first either way! But I guess it turned into a really exciting, sort of, camping-out trip for them so it was cool.”

Thinking Way Firsts Has Beens Stills Two Shows Night Bits Sleep Fans Exciting Could Have Been Camping Craziest Camping Out

Author:Hoodie Allen

“I was not the commander, I was a junior person, so once both were outside, I followed my leader, because we (NASA) had not put together detailed jobs of people outside. I believe it could have been improved. But it was very successful for what it was.”

People Believe Persons Has Beens Together Jobs I Believe Leader Successful Could Have Been Juniors Commanders Nasa

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“The person I miss most is the one I could have been.”

Persons Has Beens Values Missing Could Have Been

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The owners of a dog which swallowed a diamond worth £12000 had to wait three days until it re-emerged. With a bit of planning it could have been a nice way to propose.”

Way Has Beens Humor Funny Three Bits Waiting Nice Dog Planning Owners Diamond Could Have Been Propose

Author:Frankie Boyle

“I like to say two things in life that mean the most: genetics and luck. When you look at it realistically, genetics is luck too. Because you could have been born in some really terrible situation and never had a chance to realize yourself or see who you were. And so the luck of genetics and then after that, circumstances, those are the two guiding things.”

Looks Mean Has Beens Two Realizing Born Chance Situation Circumstances Terrible Luck Two Things Things In Life Could Have Been Genetics

Author:George Carlin

“There was a possibility I could have been under surveillance.”

Has Beens Possibility Could Have Been Surveillance

Author:Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

“I never thought about whether film is inherently more sincere, because certainly I think if Guy Maddin had directed A Series Of Unfortunate Events, there probably could have been more of the stage-y irony that is in the books. But I was just interested to see what people would do with it, and worrying that Brad Silberling wouldn't do what I had in mind.”

People Ifs Thinking Mind Has Beens Book Film Guy Worry Stage Events Series Irony Sincere Unfortunate Could Have Been Brad Unfortunate Events Series Of Unfortunate Events

Author:Daniel Handler

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