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He had to be kidding. If he had been any more toned, I might have dry humped his leg when I first saw him at Dairy Queen. — S.M. Reine

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

Might have been a time when I loved her too but you take that away and you'll always be the one. — Drake

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

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

Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time. — Ian Fleming

I'd like to think that had I known the truth, I might have been a kinder, more loving person. If only we knew the Truth, mightn't we all? — Tom Robbins

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

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

I'd assumed Jack's death was the worst that I could endure. Matthew might have been preparing me for both of their murders. Dear — Kresley Cole

I am too old to have ever been very worried about what "genre" any given book of mine might be. I read everything. I am easily amused. — Margaret Atwood

If she'd been born in an African tribe she might have been a witch doctor. — Agatha Christie

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

Don't regret what might have been. Accept what is and rejoice in what is yet to be. — MaryAnn Koopmann

Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer — Florence Nightingale

When you are this hungry, you cannot even remember who you used to be, she whispered. Who you might have been, if not for the hunger. — Catherynne M Valente

Had I been more responsible I might have made something of myself as a junk bond trader, long-haul trucker or perhaps a plumbing contractor. — Brock Yates

Child," said Aslan, "did I not explain to you once before that no one is ever told what might have been? — C.S. Lewis

He shook my hand and said goodbye with a sentence that might have been either good advice or a threat: Take good care of yourself. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

How strange to have a sister, Valarie thought. Someone you might have been. — Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

Hilary Clinton might have been a better pick than me. — Joe Biden

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what we imagine might have been. — George Eliot

I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be. — Janet Jackson

I love him to my bones, but suddenly I'm wondering what I might have been without him. — Nina Lane

Joe might have called that place godforsaken but I could see a whole lot of proof that if there was a God, He'd been there. — Vikki Wakefield

As she realized what might have been, she grew to be thankful for what was. — Elizabeth Gaskell

You can't become who you're supposed to be if you keep looking back on what might have been. - Alexis — Candace Knoebel

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

But still my fancy wanders free
Through that which might have been. — Thomas Love Peacock

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

If I could take a punch like that, I might have been able to think up a name besides George for all my sons. — George Foreman

I wandered through the streets thinking of all the things I might have said and might have done had I been other than I was. — Erich Maria Remarque

Skathis might have been an artist, but he'd been a vile one. Strange the dreamer was an artist, too, and he was the antidote to vile. — Laini Taylor

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

But the thing was:although I might not have been dying,I wasn't really living,either — Robyn Schneider

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

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

But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole. — Kate DiCamillo

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

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

He Himself bore our sins in His body on the TREE So that we might die to sin and live for righteousness By His wounds you have been healed — Anonymous

Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living. — Tom O'Connor

And he thought that, had he been wearing his guns, he might well have drawn one and put a bullet in Susan Delgado's cold and whoring little heart. — Stephen King

Life is too short to dwell on what might have been. — Hillary Rodham Clinton

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

Their faces were clay-coloured and featureless, yet not stupid; they might have been shrewd turnips. — Rebecca West

Saint Paul on the road to Damascus might have pleaded sunstroke, for example, and the world would have been a different place. — Alan Bradley

He had the complexion, lightly webbed, of outdoor living and indoor drinking, and was a high, handsome man who might have been cruel. — Shirley Hazzard

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

At a certain age [ ... ] you start thinking you might have learned something when you were young if you hadn't already been so smart. — Mark Jenkins

The Purple Scar might have been a paper casualty of World War II. — John S. Endicott

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

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

Then he left, and with him he took the sun, the moon, the stars, and anything inside of me that might have been good. — Julie Murphy

The evening air holds the bittersweet tang of what might have been, — Ally Condie

Whatever beauty she thought she might have possessed she realized had only been through her husband's assessment of her — Molly Ringwald

Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be. — Hillary Clinton

Had the situation not been so tragic, we might have laughed. — Elie Wiesel

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

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen. — Robert Bresson

The key to the match might have been his serving. Maybe I should have concentrated harder on watching them go by me, I don't know. — Andy Roddick

If I make a wrong decision, I worry what might have been. I stress out over very insignificant things. — Courtney Barnett

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

Miss Sarah Pocket, whom I now saw to be a little dry brown corrugated old woman, with a small face that might have been made of walnut shells ... — Charles Dickens

To Jaden, Kenneth, Stanley, Pedro, Tyler, Edwin, Samuel, Taishan, Gerry and Justin. For who you were and who you might have been. — Gary Younge

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

Hedge yelled a question that might have been: Where's Frank? Percy pointed at the giant koi. Frank waved his left dorsal fin. 'Sup? — Rick Riordan

He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic. — Colum McCann

She said a good day ain't got no rain
She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed
And I think of things that might have been — Paul Simon

We might have been a free and great people together. — Thomas Jefferson

You might have been enough the man you are, with striving less to be so — William Shakespeare

Don't be afraid to hear me. Don't shrink from anything I say. I am like one who died young: all my life might have been. — Charles Dickens

The Scandinavians are dear people but they've never been what you might call bywords for wit and sparkle, have they? — Kingsley Amis

The golden coins might have been his, but they were still stolen - self-stolen? Auto-thieved? — Eliezer Yudkowsky

I was a baby when I came into the world
otherwise I might have been smart enough to become a different person. — Frank Wedekind

There's no point dwelling on what might or could have been. You just have to go forward. — Jack Nicholson

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

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

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

I might've been witty, but I didn't have a shtick. So, I never considered myself a comedian. — Scott Adsit

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

Creating is the means to breathe life into something that never was, could have been, or someday might be. — L.M. Fields

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

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system. — Bob Dylan

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. — Francis Bacon

Ever since I was a kid, I might have been eleven or twelve. I'd be telling anyone who would listen that when I grew up, I wanted to be an artist. — Graeme Base

In those days people moved more slowly down there, and Arch, who did just opposite, might almost have been taken for a Yankee. — Gerald Clarke

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

They might as well have been trying to fit a squirrel through the eye of a needle. — Embee

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

Their explanations might have been completely legitimate, or they might have been sesquipedalian bushwa. — Orson Scott Card

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

He might as well have been telling me to build a damn rocketship. I had no idea what to do. — Amanda Hocking

I count the years and I shed no tears; I'm blinded to what might have been. Nature's voice makes my heart rejoice; play me the wild song of the wind. — Bob Dylan

Our habit of wishing backward from what is to what might have been is the soft but persistent tapping that cracks the crystal. — Walter Kirn

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

Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been;
I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell — Dante Gabriel Rossetti