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“We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.”

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Book:Daniel Deronda - Volume 2 of 2

Source: Daniel Deronda - Volume 2 of 2

“And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.”

People Ifs Men Has Beens Might Memories Vision Duty Might Have Been

Book:Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

Source: Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

“If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'”

Ifs Has Beens Might Ought Tongue Pens Might Have Been Saddest

Author:Bret Harte

“There is more blood than paint upon these hands. All those thousands of men killed. We thought it would be a little job, and so it might have been if it had begun in the right way.”

Ifs Men World Way Littles Has Beens War Hands Might Would Be Jobs Blood Paint War Of The Worlds Right Way Might Have Been World War One

Author:Winston Churchill

“The Fed was largely responsible for converting what might have been a garden-variety recession, although perhaps a fairly severe one, into a major catastrophe. Instead of using its powers to offset the depression, it presided over a decline in the quantity of money by one-third from 1929 to 1933 ... Far from the depression being a failure of the free-enterprise system, it was a tragic failure of government.”

“Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been there are totally unacceptable.”

Has Beens Might Nations Deals Consideration Might Have Been Pragmatic Great Nations Small Nations

Author:Mikhail Saakashvili

“It had the old double keyboard, an entirely different set of keys for capitals and figures, so that the paper seemed a long way off, and the machine was as big and solid as a battle cruiser. Typing was then a muscular activity. You could ache after it. If you were not familiar with those vast keyboards, your hand wandered over them like a child lost in a wood. The noise might have been that of a shipyard on the Clyde. You would no more have thought of carrying one of those grim structures as you would have thought of travelling with a piano.”

“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.”

Years Has Beens Said Might Literature Force Acting Behinds Company Cases Years Ago Twenties Driving These Days Ceo Might Have Been No Hope Pessimistic Cleanliness Driving Force

Author:Jared Diamond

“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.”

Source: A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens

“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.”

Source: The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou

“Another occupation might have been better.”

Has Beens Might Occupation Might Have Been

Book:F.H. Bradley: Miscellaneous Writings

Source: F.H. Bradley: Miscellaneous Writings

“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.”

People Ifs Way Want Needs Has Beens Might Wanted Song Easier Remembered Provoking Proven Might Have Been Bucks Old Song

Author:Avicii

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

Thinking Has Beens Might Might Have Been

Author:Noel Gallagher

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

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Book:The Year of Yes

Source: The Year of Yes

“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.”

Ifs Has Beens War Might Given Imagine Victory Criminals Germany Nazi Might Have Been Medal

Author:Max Schmeling

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

Has Beens Might Turns Culture Wonderful Gods Will Might Have Been

Book:The Quotable Oswald Chambers

Source: The Quotable Oswald Chambers

“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.”

Men World Years Wells Has Beens Said Might Today Five Mankind Understood Hundred Years Ago Twenties Might Have Been World Today Twenty Five

Author:B. F. Skinner

“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.”

Feels May Has Beens Stills Might Lost Stars Waiting Ready Regret Pure Late Ideals Wings Noble Idle Vague Strife Petty Might Have Been Jars

Author:Adelaide Anne Procter

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

Has Beens Stills Might Hope Dawn Might Have Been

Author:Robert Breault

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

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Book:Life and literary remains of L.E.L. [ed.] by L. Blanchard

Source: Life and literary remains of L.E.L. [ed.] by L. Blanchard

“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!”

World Has Beens Ends Hands Might Desire This World Regret Cups Thread Centre Might Have Been Visionaries

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

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

Has Beens Might Energy Deals Effort Teaching Waste Might Have Been Spoil

Book:THE ART OF TEACHING

Source: THE ART OF TEACHING

“If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.”

Ifs Has Beens Might Forever Might Have Been

Author:Sally Field

“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.”

Knows Has Beens Different Done Might Games Wish Player Might Have Been Wish You Guessing

Author:Gordie Howe

“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.”

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

Ifs Has Beens Hard Enough Might Hard Work Harder Ministers Prime Prime Minister Might Have Been

Author:Ken Livingstone

“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.”

Thinking Littles Has Beens Might Bored Cinema Division Might Have Been Juxtaposition

Author:Wim Wenders

“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.”

People Want Has Beens Might Today Tough Red Careful Mood Meat Harsh Might Have Been Red Meat

Author:Mark Russell

“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.”

Ifs Knows Has Beens Might Levels Know How Might Have Been Jerk

Author:Steve Carell

“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.”

Ifs Should Has Beens Might Would Be Guy Fighting Mistake Kings Presses Might Have Been Hindsight Bad Press

Author:Gerry Cooney

“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.”

Ifs Has Beens Might Ten Bills Dollars Spending Might Have Been Consumed Formation Dollar Bills

Book:The People's Pottage

Source: The People's Pottage

“I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal preparation. When I see something ten years later that I was in I think, 'Boy, would I love to do that over.”

Ifs Thinking Years Has Beens Might Actors Interesting Boys Careers Ten Preparation Formal Might Have Been

Author:Sam Elliott

“There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that's a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than with them.”

People Thinking Has Beens Might Creative Privilege Disagree Might Have Been Slogans Restriction Mislead

Author:Asghar Farhadi

“Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse-power scent about them that might have been warranted to carry three miles, and knock a man over at two hundred yards.”

Men Has Beens Two Might Three Hundred Horse Miles Cheese Yards Scent Might Have Been Splendid Ripe Mellow

Book:Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (English French Edition illustrated): Trois Hommes dans un bateau(Anglais Français édition illustré)

Source: Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (English French Edition illustrated): Trois Hommes dans un bateau(Anglais Français édition illustré)

“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.”

“I could have been on a path that led to different, more traditional teen romance, and 'Nip/Tuck' shook me loose from any generalization I might have been forced into. It helped me understand I wanted to take on things that were edgier, more challenging and riskier.”

Has Beens Different Might Wanted Romance Challenges Path Traditional Might Have Been Could Have Been Generalization

Author:Seth Gabel

“I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.”

Has Beens States Facts Might Born Chaos Might Have Been Literal

Author:Anselm Kiefer

“You do what you do and you pay for your sins and there's no such thing as what might have been.”

Has Beens Philosophy Might Sin Pay Might Have Been

Author:Tim McGraw