“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.” IfsKnowsBelieveHas BeensMightLastsStuffDon't BelieveReincarnationLast TimeMight Have BeenBuddyReally Happy Author:Waylon Jennings
“If there'd been a better-balanced society, where there were other ways of making a decent living, I think it might have been different. That's not the way this setup work.” IfsThinkingWayHas BeensDifferentMightDecentBalancedMight Have BeenSetups Author:W. S. Merwin
“In a certain way, my work had set me up to be against lots of things. If there wasn't some sort of sanction for it in the public world, it might have been...it wouldn't have been tolerated, because people don't want things to get shaken up.” PeopleIfsWorldWayWantHas BeensMightCertainMight Have BeenSanctions Author:Julian Schnabel
“My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas.” WritingHas BeensTwoMightStageDramaRadioDecadesMight Have BeenMonologuesFondness Author:Norman Lock
“I'm shooting a gangbanger, but as a dignified man. That's pretty much what war photography did: seeing images of soldiers in a dignified way. They might have been killers in Vietnam, but I'm seeing another side of them, and looking at images of the the American soldiers, also the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong - I never saw an enemy.” MenWayHas BeensWarMightSidesEnemySawsSeeingPhotographySoldierShootingVietnamKillersMight Have BeenVietnameseAmerican SoldierViet Cong Author:Jamel Shabazz
“Nothing is known for sure, even the person who was there isn't entirely sure he or she had the same response as the other in that moment. One person might have fallen head over heels, the other might have been thinking about what to have for dinner and inadvertently making eye contact.” ThinkingPersonsHas BeensMomentsMightEyeKnownResponseDinnerContactFallenThat MomentHeelsMight Have BeenEye ContactHead Over Heels Author:Sophie Blackall
“It's true, we tend to write about the same thing over and over again because this is our trauma. If I had been in World War II, I might have been writing about D-Day over and over again.” IfsWorldWritingHas BeensWarMightTraumaWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War IMight Have BeenD Day Author:Anne Roiphe
“I don't want to show deleted scenes. I don't like an audience looking at what the movie might have been - if it's in the movie, it's in the movie.” IfsWantHas BeensShowsMightAudienceSceneMight Have Been Author:Kevin Spacey
“It might have been introduced slowly over the course of the years as you recall this memory over and over. So that was a very cool but complex idea that we thought about representing in the film but could not find a way to make it work.” WayYearsHas BeensIdeasMightFilmCoursesMemoriesComplexesRecallsMight Have BeenRepresentingVery Cool Author:Pete Docter
“It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn't handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect of not being able to compete in gymnastics anymore was heartbreaking.” Has BeensMightAbleEasierHandleKneesRetiringMight Have BeenGymnasticsHeartbreaking Author:Shawn Johnson
“I became so attentive to the souls of other people that I was not as attentive as I might have been to my own.” PeopleHas BeensSoulMightMy OwnMight Have Been Author:Barbara Brown Taylor
“Sometimes it's not like I write very specific, it's more like I add an atmosphere almost to something that might have been quite awkward in my mind from the beginning. Something has happened and I want to force myself to think of it in a more positive way. And then I force myself to write something that convinces me that this is actually something pretty good or something that I learned something valuable from.” ThinkingWayWantWritingMindHas BeensSometimesMightForceHappenedAddValuableAtmosphereConvinceAwkwardMight Have Been Author:Jens Lekman
“The job of the critic, as it might have been conceived in the 1950's or 1960's, was some kind of role of moral arbiter for people, not a huge number of people, but people who were, you know, fairly educated, well-placed people.” PeopleKnowsWellsKindHas BeensMightJobsNumbersMoralRolesHugeCriticsEducatedMight Have Been1960sArbiterHuge Numbers Author:Louis Menand
“Religion is so focused on family. These days, for many people, being gay is also focused on family. The Mormon Church is especially focused on family, and I'd have hoped, therefore, that the Mormon Church would especially have celebrated how all of these people who might have been lonely and suicidal and childless are now able to lead this other life. I would have thought it would be a cause for immense celebration. Instead it has been, obviously, a cause of great concern to the Church and its leadership.” PeopleHas BeensMightWould BeAbleCausesChurchGayConcernLonelyFocusedThese DaysCelebrationImmenseSuicidalMight Have BeenHaving HopeBeing Gay Author:Andrew Solomon
“It might have been really cool back in the '50s when it was less populated but I don't know.” KnowsHas BeensMightMight Have BeenReally Cool Author:John Leguizamo
“I've speculated about what my life might have been like as a musician, but I'm afraid I came to the conclusion that I probably would've either been teaching piano or maybe gotten to play at Nordstrom's department store.” Has BeensPlayMightTeachingMusicianStoresConclusionPianoDepartmentMight Have BeenDepartment StoresNordstrom Author:Condoleezza Rice
“I wish that after the war against Saddam Hussein we had been more effective at rebuilding Iraq quickly. I think had we done it from the provinces, in, rather than from Baghdad, out, we might have been more successful.” ThinkingHas BeensWarDoneMightWishSuccessfulIraqSaddamMight Have BeenHusseinProvincesBaghdadRebuilding Author:Condoleezza Rice
“I had more problems with the men in our own government, and not because they were male chauvinistic pigs but because they had known me for so long. I might have been a carpool mother and a friend of their wife, and so they'd been to my house for dinner and things like and they thought 'how did she get to be secretary of state when I should be secretary of state?' So that was more of a problem.” MenShouldLongHas BeensStatesProblemGovernmentMightMotherHouseKnownWifeHe ManMalesDinnerPigsSecretaryMight Have Been Author:Madeleine Albright
“There's a book called Mummy and the people actually seem to have become addicted to mummy dust. And mummy dust was somehow made from people who've died of the most loathsome diseases. It's too bad that [David] Cronenberg didn't see this book, see I only saw it after the film was made. It might have been of interest to him.” PeopleHas BeensMadeBookSeemsMightFilmInterestSawsDiseaseDiedDustMade ItMight Have BeenMummy Author:William S. Burroughs
“Take the [1980] Jimmy Carter-Ronald Reagan debate. Carter kept trying to imply that somehow Ronald Reagan was going to push the button, or was irresponsible with nuclear war. You might have been able to make the case that Carter was responsible. But it's very tough when you see a person with Reagan's nice-guy persona up there to believe this guy somehow wants nuclear war, that he somehow wants to antagonize the Russians into an attack. It's just not credible; it doesn't cut with what all your other senses are telling you.” WantTryingBelievePersonsHas BeensWarMightAbleGuyCasesNiceCuttingToughResponsibleNuclearDebateSensesButtonsThis GuyMight Have BeenPersonaIrresponsibleJimmyCarterNuclear WarCredibleNice Guy Author:Roger Ailes
“Me and my brother, Illa Noyz. We was smoking weed. A ton of weed. I had a friend who at the time sold weed, and it was just there. And we just smoke and smoke. I think we had about... and remember, this is back in the day, this might have been when niggas were still smoking White Owls.” ThinkingHas BeensStillsMightRememberWhiteBrotherSmokeMy BrotherSmokingWeedMight Have BeenOwlBack In The DaySmoking Weed Author:Sean Price
“How much he was shaped by being in the hospital so much as a kid. Because he was sick, he was a reader, and because he was a reader, Kennedy had heroes. Because he had heroes, he went into politics. [Kennedy liked Sir Walter Scott, King Arthur's knights, and biographies of political leaders.] If he hadn't been sick, he might have been like everybody else in the family, a jock.” IfsHas BeensMightKidsPoliticalLeaderReaderKingsHeroSickHospitalsBiographiesMight Have BeenKnightsArthurPolitical LeadersJocksKing Arthur Author:Chris Matthews
“Some thoughts went through my head about recording some stuff that had influenced me earlier in my career like blues and early rock. But it didn't seem to really make sense at that point - it might have been taken the wrong way. A lot of people already had been into that trip.” PeopleWayHas BeensSeemsMightStuffCareersTakenRocksMake SenseMight Have BeenWrong Way Author:Van Morrison
“I might have been curious about actors' lives when I was growing up. That's human nature.” HumansHas BeensMightActorsGrowing UpGrowingHuman NatureCuriousMight Have Been Author:Michael Fassbender
“When you draw a western correctly, you create such drama, such dilemma that you think you almost don't want to admit who you might have been.” ThinkingWantHas BeensMightDramaDrawsWesternMight Have BeenDilemma Author:Kevin Costner
“I know there are problems that I say to myself, If maybe I was a little more gifted I might have been able to solve. But that's not because I believe what I did was a mistake. It's that maybe it required the talents of a Lincoln.” IfsKnowsBelieveLittlesHas BeensProblemMightAbleI BelieveMistakeTalentSolveGiftedMight Have Been Author:Barack Obama
“In the case of Philando Castile, we believe he was complying, it might have been precipitated by a police officer telling him to open the glove compartment.We have other examples in which people have met the same fate when they appear to be complying. Yet the way that the system tends to operate and the way the police when you talk to them view that situation is they are looking for things that trigger their perception of threat and that`s a highly subjective judgment.” PeopleWayBelieveHas BeensMightViewsSituationCasesFateExampleMetsJudgmentPerceptionPoliceThreatOfficersMight Have BeenSubjectiveTriggersGlovesPolice OfficerComplying Author:Chris Hayes
“Donald Trump talks us down. He makes disparaging comments about America. He calls our military a disaster. Well, it's not, but it might have been if everybody else had failed to pay taxes to support our brave men and women in uniform.” IfsMenWellsHas BeensMightAmericaPaySupportMilitaryTrumpTaxesMen And WomenBraveDisasterCommentUniformsMight Have BeenBrave ManDisparaging Author:Hillary Clinton
“The concept of the "information society" is both vague and all-embracing. Different participants meant different things by it. In practice, though, World Summit on the Information Society only dealt with a small number of issues: ICTs and human rights (to some extent), ICTs and development (to some extent), infrastructure finance and Internet governance. Very large aspects of what might have been included in the "information society" were not really discussed.” WorldHumansHas BeensDifferentMightNumbersPracticeIssuesRightsInformationDevelopmentInternetConceptsAspectHuman RightsFinanceDifferent ThingsVagueMight Have BeenInfrastructureGovernanceSummitParticipantsSmall NumbersInformation SocietyIct Author:David Souter
“What we might have been dealing with here - with the building of the Pyramids - is an age that got lost. Man had to learn again what they previously had known.” MenHas BeensMightAgeLostKnownBuildingMight Have BeenPyramids Author:John Henrik Clarke
“There's a possible qualification I can make here about a non-pantheist god that is in some way tenable, and that is the idea of a god that has in some way discharged the universe from its own substance (I associate this with the word 'tzimtzum'), possibly even by a form of suicide - a suicide that might have been the Big Bang.” WayHas BeensI CanIdeasBigsMightFormUniverseSuicideSubstanceAssociatesMight Have BeenBangsQualifications Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“There isn't much doubt that like other animal societies, those of Homo sapiens involved plenty of cooperation, which might have been considerably enhanced, one would suppose, by the emergence of the remarkable instrument of language.” Has BeensMightLanguageAnimalDoubtInvolvedInstrumentsPlentyRemarkableCooperationMight Have BeenHomo SapiensEmergence Author:Noam Chomsky
“[The World Series] introduced me for the first time to a team with a lot of black players. Detroit had about three of them: I think it was Willie Horton, Gates Brown, and Earl Wilson - might have been one or two more in '68.” ThinkingWorldFirstsHas BeensTwoMightThreeBlackPlayerTeamFirst TimeSeriesBrownGatesMight Have BeenDetroitWilsonWorld Series Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“That it is not enough to catch a criminal and get them convicted and so on, because the victim remains with the consequences of the crime. Something needs to be done. Let's complete that process, interact with civil society about this, so that we will specify what is it that we do in the context of that Charter that would then make this positive impact on people who might have been affected by crime.” PeopleNeedsHas BeensDoneEnoughMightProcessCrimeConsequenceVictimRemainsImpactCriminalsAffectedMight Have BeenCivil SocietyCharterPositive Impact Author:Thabo Mbeki
“I have find that today's students are often more tolerant of human variance than students in earlier generations might have been. On the other hand, some of our students need much more interaction with a wide variety of peers so they level of understanding deepens and so they are prepared to live in a world that is only going to get smaller.” WorldNeedsHumansHas BeensHandsMightTodayUnderstandingLevelsGenerationsStudentsPreparedWideVarietyInteractionPeersMight Have BeenVariance Author:Carol Ann Tomlinson
“In the spring of 1946 [Ho Chi Minh ] signed a provisional agreement with the French representative on a compromise solution to the dispute over Vietnamese independence. Once again, he might have been naive in hoping that a compromise was really possible.” Has BeensMightSpringSolutionsIndependenceCompromiseAgreementRepresentativesNaiveMight Have BeenDisputesVietnamese Author:William J. Duiker
“Th left laugh at the idea that you think we might have been on the verge of losing America. They laugh at it. So if they don't understand that, if they mock that, laugh at that, they're never going to understand Trump or why people voted for him. There's no way they can.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayHas BeensIdeasMightAmericaLeftLaughingTrumpLosingMight Have BeenMockVerge Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I might have been too tiny for it, but I wanted to become a professional tennis player. I was a pretty good tennis player as a kid, but ultimately I just don't think that I have that jock mentality needed for sports.” ThinkingHas BeensMightKidsWantedSportsPlayerNeededTinyTennisMentalityMight Have BeenJocksTennis Player Author:Robbie Rist
“Greece, alone, is in a very vulnerable position. If the Greeks had had support from progressive left and popular forces elsewhere in Europe they might have been able to resist the demands of the Troika, but they had almost no support. Not even from Portugal, Spain, or other left forces. They were left alone.” IfsHas BeensMightAbleLeftForceSupportPositionDemandEuropeVulnerableGreekProgressiveElsewhereSpainMight Have BeenGreeceLeft AlonePortugal Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think we had a Ben Webster/Gerry Mulligan record... that might have been it. We only had a few records in the house.” ThinkingHas BeensMightHouseRecordsMight Have BeenMulligans Author:Jon Gordon
“My favourite member of the Beatles is Lennon. He might have been crazy. But he's my kind of crazy.” KindHas BeensMightCrazyMembersFavouriteMight Have BeenLennon Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“I think the most important advice is, a person doesn't have to find out right away. It's not like their first attempt at finding a profession is the only one they're going to find. I might well have gone down other paths, and it still might have been okay. But if you find something that you love, and if it keeps deepening with each new experience, then just stay with it.” IfsThinkingFirstsWellsPersonsHas BeensStillsImportantMightGonePathAdviceFindingsOkayProfessionMight Have BeenNew Experiences Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin
“Luckily I was not born in Eastern Europe, because I might have been born into the communist establishment and I'm glad I was not. But in Israel, communists were dissidents. So you grow up in an environment which is very critical of Israeli policies.” Has BeensMightGrowsBornGrowing UpEnvironmentPolicyEuropeIsraelCriticalGladCommunistEstablishmentEasternMight Have BeenIsraeliEastern EuropeDissidents Author:Amira Hass
“I'm not an analytical person, so it's not my job to even know what the hell the thing meant. It's not my problem. I'm just supposed to do it. Sometimes, people have explained things to me that I might have been semi-conscious of or not.” PeopleKnowsPersonsHas BeensSometimesProblemMightJobsHellConsciousMight Have Been Author:Jim Jarmusch
“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.” IfsThinkingKnowsTryingLongHas BeensMightVoiceDecisionStepsOpinionNot AfraidMight Have BeenWrong Decision Author:Michael E. Thornton
“The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.” IfsHas BeensWarMightPeaceSidesConditionsAffairAnti WarAntiwarUnnecessaryBoth SidesMight Have BeenAvoidedTwo SidesUnnecessary War Author:Robert E. Lee
“If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.” IfsFeelsHas BeensMightArtistSingingPhotographerSingersMight Have Been Author:Annie Lennox
“I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.” ThinkingBelieveHas BeensMightJesusSonDon't BelieveProphetMight Have Been Author:Damian Lewis
“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.” LongHas BeensTwoDifferentMightTodayThreeSportsTeamStrategyDepthMy TimeMight Have BeenPitcher Author:Ernie Banks
“I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been.” IfsBelieveWellsHas BeensI CanDreamMightLyingWonderGravesMight Have Been Author:Dave Matthews