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Knowing that another path might have been easier for him to travel, but that it couldn't possibly have offered a more satisfying conclusion. — Garth Stein

You can't dwell on what might have been ... and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done. — Wendelin Van Draanen

An image came back to him with such vividness that it might have been framed before him in glass — Ron Rash

National Socialism is what Marxism might have been if it could have broken its absurd and artificial ties with the democratic order. — Adolf Hitler

It's odd to think we might have been Sun, moon and stars unto each other; Only I turned down one little street As you went up another. — Fannie Heaslip Lea

If you have a surprise idea, don't let it go! No matter if it's 4 AM, 6 AM or 12 AM, don't let it go! It might have been a great one! — B.A. Gabrielle

Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long. — Ogden Nash

It's a pity you are a torturer," Ultan said. "You might have been a philosopher. — Gene Wolfe

In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse. — Amelia Barr

If I had been as capable of trust as I am susceptible to fear I might have learned something new or some truth so very old we have all forgotten it. — Edward Abbey

If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body. — Alison Bechdel

Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been. — Kurt Vonnegut

It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been. — Christopher Reeve

It didn't matter who he might have been. That was not who he was now. He created himself each day and slowly built his own history. — Ginn Hale

It's just the way things are. And you can't dwell on what might have been. You have to look at what is. — Sophie Kinsella

It is never too late to be what you might have been. — George Eliot

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur. — Pablo Picasso

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Much later, when I could think about it clearly, I consoled myself that there were many worse ways in which I might have been raped. — Geraldine Brooks

My rest might have been blissful enough, only a sad heart broke it. — Charlotte Bronte

This was another fossil of a joke. I couldn't remember where it'd come from, I had a horrible feeling it might have been me. — Alexis Hall

She might have been living yet, if it had not been for him! — Emily Bronte

It is not yours save by unhappy chance. It might have been mine. It should be mine. Give it to me! — J.R.R. Tolkien

She might not have been party to love, but it still took a lot of volume to fill a life. — Colum McCann

It might appear to have been before God. — Lao-Tzu

Man, it was a good thing he fought like a nasty bastard or he might have been taken for a nancy. — J.R. Ward

Sometimes it seems that we might have been happier if we had once had an aristocracy to blame everything on. — Anatole Broyard

Tucker strokes my hair. There's something so tender about the gesture. It might as well have been him whispering I love you. — Cynthia Hand

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

It might have been really cool back in the '50s when it was less populated but I don't know. — John Leguizamo

It never occurred to us that the Earth itself might have been unyielding — Toni Morrison

I have been in the presence of a lot of greatness. And people I love who have loved me back. It might be the same thing. — Ally Condie

My dear Mr. Schwartz, you appeared in the nick of time. It might have been a drama on the stage! I am very much in your debt. — Agatha Christie

It's sometimes more torment for a man, Mr. Fagin said, to consider what might have been than to live with what is. — Alice McDermott

...as I have been thinking about this, I decided it might be better to be a broken man than a man who never risked breaking anything. — Douglas Wilson

And for a moment he simply held her and she held onto him.
It might have been the most perfect moment of his life so far. — Julie Anne Long

A pause. It might have been pregnant. I've never been sure how to tell if a silence has conceived or not. — Lois Greiman

It's just lucky for Father he never had any sons. He might have been forced to respect them. — Barbara Kingsolver

It was only after time had passed that a person was able to see whether she might have been able to bear the load she was sure had been too heavy. — Susan Meissner

People might have the impression I had an easy life, but it's been anything but that. — Alana Stewart

He just wanted to see it. From afar. To see what might have been, what he was glad hadn't been. But maybe should have been. — Julia Quinn

It's been really nice to see different counties that I might never have visited before. — Parminder Nagra

I wish to Heaven that I might forget. It would be so much easier than to go through life always remembering what might have been. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man. — Peter Singer

If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less. — Lily Tomlin

Hysteria is something that I've been interested for a very long time. I thought I might have it, but it seems that it's unlikely. — Siri Hustvedt

It might have been a new way for her heart to beat. — Philip Pullman

As anxious and limited as that love might have been, it had been love nonetheless. — Wally Lamb

Well, sure, but I don't bring God into it. I think shower massage might have been invented by the devil. God invented the missionary position. — Janet Evanovich

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!' — Bret Harte

You would have been better off if you admitted to yourself that she was the love of your life. It might have saved us some pain. — Adria J. Cimino

It might be a move in six months. But I'll make up my mind. I'll have a look at where I've been and where I want to go and I'll continue in that way. — Duncan Fletcher

Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it. — Patrick DeWitt

Just imagine how terrible it might have been if we'd been at all competent. — Terry Pratchett

This cult seems like it might have been designed specifically to prey on bookish old people - Scientology for scholarly seniors. — Robin Sloan

A gazebo on top of a welding rig" was how Yul might have described it, if only he had been here. — Neal Stephenson

It was laughter that might have been squeezed from the tubes of his own darkest heart, then amplified fifty times through the bellows of a loon's ass. — Tom Robbins

Connie, have you been trying to call me?" No Archie. "Well, my phone has not been ringing all day, and I thought it might have been you. — Lawrence Sanders

Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real. — Jasper Fforde

It might have been the seventies, but if you're old enough for a moustache you're too old for strawberry-patterned trousers. — Jo Wood

Perhaps. But it is childish to think of what might have been. — Chaim Potok

A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been. — Tony Kushner

She was grieving the loss of her youth, the closing down of possibilities as life became what it was rather than what it might have been. — Kimberley Freeman

It might have been the hardest hit I took all day. — Drew Brees

It might have been done before, but it hasn't been done by you! — Elizabeth Gilbert

Had I been a man I might have explored the Poles or climbed Mount Everest, but as it was my spirit found outlet in the air ... — Amy Johnson

Faxian and Xuanzang might have been the first Chinese to travel to India, but sometimes it felt like I was the first. — Hong Mei

These long years later it is worse
for I remember what it was
as well as what it might have been. — Rod McKuen

There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been. — Robert Breault

That smile might have been on his lips, but it was not in his eyes. — Terry Goodkind

If it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian. — Mahatma Gandhi

He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn't as hopeless a thing as it might have been. — Patricia Briggs

It could have been possible to put a little more fuck you into his tone, but some of it might've slopped out the sides. — Lilith Saintcrow

It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better. — Daniel Okrent

It might not have been a happily ever after for everyone, but it was everything I had ever wanted. — J.J. McAvoy

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. — Kevin Spacey

Everything I've done, I've made up. Some of that might have been right; most of it was probably wrong. — Biz Stone

It might have been the first time in my life I understood what an easy bond it was, to share a neighborhood as we had done, to share a time past. — Alice McDermott

It is never too late to be who you might have been. It is always possible — Steve Miller

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

A voice yelled after me but it was wayward and might have been a cry out of someone's nightmare. — Sarah Dunant

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

There was something about Mikie that made me want to trust him. It might have been the Centanario Anejo. — Nadja Baer

Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long. — Ogden Nash

I take it he was in the closet?"

"He might as well have been in Narnia. — Anna Zabo

If the Mongols had a motto, it might have been "Have weapon, will travel. — Steve Wiegand

I think I grew up that night. It might have been Patrick that lost his virginity, but it was me that lost my innocence. — T.A. Webb

The two of them might as well have been alone. It was the kind of look that people in love exchanged, or people who were about to kill each other. — Rachel Caine

If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music. — Maurice Ravel

That shot might not have been as good as it might have been. — John Motson

I'm thinking about the beautiful boy on the treadmill wearing the I STILL HAVE A DREAM T-shirt and realize that it might not have been ironic. — Bret Easton Ellis

And even then, it might not have been too awful, but his head snapped back and he hit a rock, breaking like a blunt molar from the ground. — Sanjida Kay

It's never too late to be the person you might have been. ~George Eliot — A.J. Warner

It's never to late to be what you might have been — Katherine Applegate

But since 'tis as 'tis, why, it might have been worse, and I feel my thanks accordingly. — Thomas Hardy

Besides it's better to have Miyoshi around. You and me have a been together since Jr. High. Without her around people might think we're gay. — Tsugumi Ohba

It wasn't until I'd turned 50 and had been in the business 25 years that I realized I might actually have a career as an actor. — James Garner

My heart beat fast, and I had a little trouble breathing. It felt like lust, but then again it might have been fear. — Marshall Thornton

Feel good about yourself. You have been blessed and you might not have even realized it. — Michael Jackson