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“Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, let them complain over what might have been, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, let them be discouraged, let them be revengeful and vindictive, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, let them become materialistic and empty, but not you. Let others become ungrateful and stop praying, but not you! Let others give up, but not you! For you know in whom you believe and you know that He is always able. Now, that's you!”

“When I first encountered the poems of Jon Woodward, I was stunned into the state that is my life's joy-I was in the presence of the inimitable. Uncanny Valley extends that experience-almost into another dimension. These apocalyptic, pixilated poems forge a mythology of our ravaged culture, one that might have been written in the future. If you want poetry to give you a persimmon on a plate, look elsewhere; if you want to know what happens when seven trees fall on the highway and the story is told by a stutterer, this is the book, and it could only have been written by Woodward.”

“I have never been much of a groomer. I take baths a lot, but I don't wear deodorant. I don't have to. I have a miraculous body scent. I've had women smell me and say that should be bottled. I would advise guys to lay off the Drakkar, because the cavemen weren't wearing it. They might have been putting mint leaves on their balls, but your scent is grown naturally. I have really good dating advice.”

Should Has Beens Body Might Guy Advice Balls Dating Lays Smell Scent Might Have Been Miraculous Baths Advise Mint Deodorant Cavemen

Author:Zach Galifianakis

“The cruelest affront is treating the person as exactly the person he is. We all long to be understood, but not for what we are. We long to be understood for what we might have been had all been for the best in the best of all possible worlds and, at the same time, to be forgiven for what we are.”

World Persons Long Has Beens Might Understood Forgiven Might Have Been Affront

Author:Jo Coudert

“Could it be that time is too narrow for all events? Could it happen that all the seats within time might have been sold? Worried, we run along the train of events, preparing ourselves for the journey.”

Has Beens Might Happens Running Journey Events Train Worried Seats Preparing Might Have Been

Book:The street of crocodiles and other stories

Source: The street of crocodiles and other stories

“Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to its shimmering red presence in the clear night sky. It is like a glowing ember in a field of ethereal lights, projecting energy and promise. It inspires visions of an approachable world. The mind vaults to thoughts of what might have been (if Mars were a litter closer to the warming Sun) and of what could be (if humans were one day to plant colonies there).”

Source: Mars Beckons: The Mysteries, the Challenges, the Expectations of Our Next Great Adventure in Space

“What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good purpose! It was that sort of despair that sucked away the sap of half the hours which might have been filled by energetic youthful activity: and the same demon tries to get hold of me again whenever an old work is dismissed and a new one is being meditated.”

Trying Has Beens Made Moments Might Purpose Hours Half Consciousness Activity Despair Filled Demon Might Have Been Energetic Being Me Sap

Book:George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus

Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus

“A woman's counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart's ease he liv'd; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.”

Men Firsts Heart Has Beens Made Might Women Sin Sorrow Ease Paradise Woe Might Have Been

Book:Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]

Source: Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]

“I wasn't Barbie-obsessed. I think my mother might have been my Barbie.”

Thinking Has Beens Might Mother Obsessed Might Have Been Barbie

Author:Michael Kors

“In the vocabulary of certain radical theorists contradictions are given the status of some deadly disease to which their opponents alone can succumb. But contradictions are the very stuff of life. If there had been a little dash of contradiction among the Gadarene swine some of them might have been saved from drowning.”

Ifs Littles Has Beens Might Certain Given Stuff Disease Saved Radical Opponents Contradiction Vocabulary Might Have Been Drowning Theorists Swine Deadly Diseases

Book:Anthills of the Savannah

Source: Anthills of the Savannah

“It was the United States of America in the cold late spring of 1967, and the market was steady and the G.N.P. high and a great many articulate people seemed to have a sense of high social purpose and it might have been a spring of brave hopes and national promise, but it was not, and more and more people had the uneasy apprehension that it was not.”

“Men had reached into the scrub and along its boundaries, had snatched what they could get and had gone away, uneasy in that vast indifferent peace; for a man was nothing, crawling ant-like among the myrtle bushes under the pines. Now they were gone, it was as though they had never been. The silence of the scrub was primordial. The wood-thrush crying across it might have been the first bird in the world-or the last.”

Men World Firsts Has Beens Might Lasts Silence Gone Cry Bird Woods Boundaries Indifferent Might Have Been Ants Uneasy Crawling Gone Away Myrtle Thrush

Author:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“An emotion that lives with me is a sense of what might have been had injuries not robbed me of my most lethal weapon - speed.”

Has Beens Might Emotion Weapons Speed Injury Might Have Been Lethal Weapon

Author:Michael Owen

“Sometimes it seems that we might have been happier if we had once had an aristocracy to blame everything on.”

Ifs Has Beens Sometimes Seems Government Might Blame Might Have Been Aristocracy

Author:Anatole Broyard

“I was always a neat kid. I never wanted my hands dirty. I wasn't a dirty kid. A lot of kids like to run around. If I was rolling around the dirt, I went home and took a shower. That's just the way I was. I'm not sure. I might have been born with it.”

Ifs Way Has Beens Home Hands Might Running Kids Wanted Born Dirty Not Sure Dirt Rolling Showers Might Have Been Neat

Author:Mark Teixeira

“Otherwise I got out of bed on two strong legs. It might have been otherwise. I ate cereal, sweet milk, ripe, flawless peach. It might have been otherwise. I took the dog uphill to the birch wood. All morning I did the work I love. At noon I lay down with my mate. It might have been otherwise. We ate dinner together at a table with silver candlesticks. It might have been otherwise. I slept in a bed in a room with paintings on the walls, and planned another day just like this day. But one day, I know, it will be otherwise.”

Source: Otherwise: new and selected poems

“If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page.”

Ifs Has Beens Different Might Issues Fronts Pages Presses Might Have Been

Author:Marla Maples

“In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored.”

Has Beens Two Sometimes Might Results Steps Surprising Hypothesis Might Have Been Steps Forward

Author:Stanley B. Prusiner

“If I may so express it, I was steeped in Dora. I was not merely over head and ears in love with her, but I was saturated through and through. Enough love might have been wrung out of me, metaphorically speaking, to drown anybody in; and yet there would have remained enough within me, and all over me, to pervade my entire existence.”

Ifs Love May Has Beens Enough Might Existence Ears Might Have Been Saturated Enough Love

Book:David Copperfield

Source: David Copperfield

“Some philosophers tell us that selfishness is at the root of our best loves and affections. Mr. Dombey's young child was, from the beginning, so distinctly important to him as a part of his own greatness, or (which is the same thing) of the greatness of Dombey and Son, that there is no doubt his parental affection might have been easily traced, like many a goodly superstructure of fair fame, to a very low foundation.”

Source: Dombey and Son ... With frontispiece by H. K. Browne

“An atheist before Darwin could have said, following Hume: I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one. I can't help feeling that such a position, though logically sound, would have left one feeling pretty unsatisfied, and that although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.”

“Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, "could have, might have, should have,and might have been." Create yourself and live the story of your own unique life.”

Should Trying Has Beens Stories Might Motivational Unique Should Have Refuse Tongue Pens New Things Might Have Been Saddest Unique Life Sad Words

Author:Rita Zahara

“Look at the mother of Washington! She raised a boy that could not tell a lie--could not tell a lie! But he never had any chance. It might have been different if he had belonged to the Washington Newspaper Correspondents' Club”

Ifs Looks Has Beens Different Might Truth Lying Mother Chance Boys Raised Clubs Newspapers Might Have Been

Book:Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)

Source: Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)

“We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name.”

Has Beens Dream Might Age Names Waiting Existence Millions Shore Might Have Been Tedious Lethe

Book:Essays of Elia

Source: Essays of Elia

“[The reason a man has] so much trouble with the Senate is that there isn't a man in the Senate who doesn't think he is better suited to be President than the President, and thinks he might have been President except for luck.”

Thinking Men Has Beens Reason Might President Trouble Luck Arrogance Senate Might Have Been

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“Shakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age still less civilized Shakespeare might have been wilder, but would not have been vulgar.”

Has Beens Stills Might Age Genius Taste Faults Caught Civilized Vulgar Might Have Been Bad Taste Wilder Tutor

Author:Horace Walpole

“Whatever success I have achieved, whatever positions of leadership I have held have depended less on Ivy League degrees or SAT scores or GPAs and have instead been due to that sense of connection and empathy, the special obligation I felt as a black man like you to help those who need it most, people who didn't have the opportunities that I had because there, but for the grace of God go I. I might have been in their shoes. I might have been in prison. I might have been unemployed. I might not have been able to support a family. And that motivates me.”

“There is not a single rule, however plausible, and however firmly grounded in epistemology, that is not violated at some time or other. It becomes evident that such violations are not accidental events, they are not results of insufficient knowledge or of inattention which might have been avoided. On the contrary, we see that they are necessary for progress.”

Has Beens Might Science Results Progress Events Contrary Evident Grounded Might Have Been Avoided Violation Scientific Method Plausible Insufficient Epistemology Inattention

Book:Against Method

Source: Against Method

“We are all in situations of our own choosing. Our thinking creates a pathway to success or failure. By disclaiming responsibility for our present, we crush the prospect of an incredible future that might have been ours.”

Thinking Has Beens Might Motivational Responsibility Situation Incredibles Crush Taking Responsibility Might Have Been Pathways Success Or Failure

Book:Traveler's Gift; Mastering the Seven Decisions

Source: Traveler's Gift; Mastering the Seven Decisions

“There might have been a hundred or a thousand life-bearing planets, had the course of evolution of the universe been a little different, or there might have been none at all. They would probably add, that, as life and man have been produced, that shows that their production was possible; and therefore, if not now then at some other time, if not here then in some other planet of some other sun, we should be sure to have come into existence; or if not precisely the same as we are, then something a little better or a little worse.”

“There might have been guys with enough cajones to send over a drink. If I was hit on today maybe I just don't know it. I told my friend that I never get hit on and he's like, "You're crazy!" But as far as I know, no, I've almost never been hit on.”

Ifs Knows Has Beens Enough Might Today Guy Crazy Like You Drink My Friends Might Have Been

Author:Mila Kunis

“I think I have probably adjusted the way I see the world, I interpret the world and I communicate the world into book format simply because of this familiarity. Possibly in another society and another context I might have been a storyteller or who knows what.”

Thinking Knows World Way Has Beens Book Might Communicate Storyteller Might Have Been Familiarity Format

Author:Jackie French

“Men spoke much in my boyhood about restricted or ruined men of genius: and it was common to say that many a man was a Great Might-Have-Been. To me it's a more solid and startling fact that any man in the street is a Great Might-Not-Have-Been.”

Men Has Beens Facts Might Common Streets Genius Spokes Ruined Might Have Been Boyhood

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Oh, had I received the education I desired, had I been bred to the profession of the law, I might have been a useful member of society, and instead of myself and my property being taken care of, I might have been a protector of the helpless, a pleader for the poor and unfortunate.”

Has Beens Might Care Law Poor Responsibility Taken Members Property Profession Unfortunate Helpless Social Responsibility Might Have Been Protector

Author:Sarah Moore Grimke

“Life moves in one direction only - and each day we are faced with an actual set of circumstances, not with what might have been, not with what we might have done, but with what is, and with where we are now- and from this point we must proceed; not from where we were, not from where we wish we were - but from where we are.”

Has Beens Done Might Moving Wish Circumstances Each Day Might Have Been One Direction

Author:Richard L. Evans

“There have been a few moments when I have known complete satisfaction, but only a few. I have rarely been free from the disturbing realization that my playing might have been better.”

Has Beens Moments Might Known Satisfaction Realization Might Have Been Disturbing

Author:Ignacy Jan Paderewski

“Emile Saint-Blague had been a lively, versatile painter in his youth, but he had abused his energy by painting too many pictures; so that in what might have been the ripe period of his art he had nothing left but ideas. A man who has nothing left but ideas may be of great service to his friends, but he is of no use at all to himself. Emile was certainly an inspiration to his friends.”

Men May Has Beens Art Ideas Use Inspiration Might Energy Left Youth Painting Periods Saint Painter Might Have Been Ripe Lively Versatile Great Service

Author:Laura Riding

“If some nuclear properties of the heavy elements had been a little different from what they turned out to be, it might have been impossible to build a bomb.”

Ifs Littles Has Beens Different Might Impossible Elements Property Heavy Nuclear Bombs Might Have Been Atomic Bomb

Author:Emilio G. Segre

“Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us.”

Has Beens Art Philosophy Might Example Priests Might Have Been Poignant Traders Art Music

Book:Brain Droppings

Source: Brain Droppings

“I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.”

Thinking Has Beens Might Decision Team Honest My Family Being Honest Soccer Hockey Might Have Been Good Decision Hockey Team Soccer Team

Author:Carl Hagelin

“Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.”

Has Beens Might Practice Mass Dues Imperfect Might Have Been Defective Ahimsa

Book:Gandhi on Nehru

Source: Gandhi on Nehru

“I always wanted to give people the more exciting version of what I think a comedian should be - because I didn't grow up with comics, I grew up with rock 'n' roll. And when I saw a lot of comics, no matter how good they might have been material-wise, I would get a little bored with them after 10 minutes, only because I feel comedians don't really know performance.”

“I once said that it was unacceptable for Japan to remain "an isolated prosperous island." At one time, it might have been all right for Japan to avoid sending any citizens to dangerous areas [even as part of international efforts] and just wish for its own people's happiness. That time is gone.”

People Has Beens Said Might Wish Effort Gone Dangerous Citizens Areas International Islands Japan One Time Isolated Might Have Been Prosperous

Author:Sadako Ogata

“If you get vegetables in season, the difference is remarkable compared to vegetables that might have been imported. You can't beat fresh ingredients and seasonal fresh ingredients. There's nothing quite like the taste of a beautiful summer strawberry.”

Ifs Has Beens Might Beautiful Differences Taste Summer Beats Seasons Remarkable Ingredients Vegetables Might Have Been Strawberries Fresh Ingredients

Author:William Katt

“The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.”

Men Has Beens Done Might Young Mistake Amount Errors Ruins Young Man Might Have Been

Book:Essays

Source: Essays

“There are hundreds of millions who believe the Messiah has come. If he did, then it is unfortunately the case that his heroic sacrifice and death have had no effect whatsoever on the very problem his coming might have been expected to address, for history demonstrates, beyond question, that we Christians have been just as dangerous, singly and en masse, as non-Christians.”

Ifs Believe Has Beens Problem Might Christian Religion Millions Cases Sacrifice Effects Dangerous Expected Addresses Heroic Might Have Been Messiah

Author:Steve Allen

“In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was.”

Has Beens Might Groups Might Have Been All The Pretty Horses

Book:The Border Trilogy

Source: The Border Trilogy

“Like most problems with technology, pollution is a problem of scale. The biosphere might have been able to tolerate our dirty old friends coal and oil if we burned them gradually, but how long can it withstand a blaze of consumption so frenzied that the dark size of this planet glows like a fanned ember in the night of space.”

Source: A Short History Of Progress

“There is a thin line between the policeman and the criminal. The best cops are always crossed. The best cops are the ones who are able to think like criminals. But for a quirk of fate, they might have been criminals.”

Thinking Has Beens Might Able Lines Fate Criminals Cop Might Have Been Policemen Quirks

Author:William Friedkin

“Doing a job, or even watching a film, can make a difference to your life, but I don't think it ever has an explosive impact where your life will never be the same again. It kind of seeps into your life, and perhaps realise you're a little more vigilant about certain things than you might have been.”

Thinking Kind Littles Has Beens Might Jobs Film Certain Differences Impact Making A Difference Realising Might Have Been Explosives Vigilant

Author:Colin Firth

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