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

Collin! What a gorgeous name. Then again his name could have been Cracker Jack and I would have thought it was just as wonderful. — Nicole Gulla

The big thing is that if you don't try something, you'll always wonder. What could that have been like? What if ... ? — Maria Shriver

It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be. — Alan Paton

I could have been 23 next July
I gambled on what mattered most, the dice were cast. I lost. — Hannah Senesh

Those who fixate on what could have been are bound to miss what already is. — Sara Secora

Decades of Saddam's rule made what could have been a fairly rich country, due to its oil reserves, into a very poor one. — Chris Kyle

What I did cannot be forgiven, any more than it could have been avoided. — Heather Day Gilbert

Can't get myself down by thinking about what could have been, right? — S.A. Tawks

Michael Brown and Eric Garner died because they got into a confrontation that could have been easily avoided. That's what made their deaths so tragic. — Mike Rowe

Don't think about it. Don't think about what could have been. It's too unbearable. — Sophie Kinsella

I'll always wonder what could have been with Steven Warner, but he never showed any interest outside of friendship so I never pushed it. — Rachel Robinson

Don't waste time thinking about what could have been when you could be thinking about what could be. — Christopher Jones

Ikenna, I have come to realize, is a man who carries with him the weight of what could have been. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

There is no grief more devastating than the grief for what could have been. — Kaya McLaren

I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising. — Vivienne Westwood

Even non-change is imperceivable change, because inaction will slowly change you from what you could have been, to what you never will be. — Bryant McGill

You will never know what could have been done until you start doing what needs to be done. — Orrin Woodward

Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been. — Abba Eban

You might have to lose control before you could find out what you'd been missing. — Jodi Picoult

Be great at what you do, and don't ever settle for mediocrity or else you will always wonder how great you could have been. — Debbi Fields

When you're having sex again, it makes you wonder why you weren't before. What could possibly have been bad enough to make you stop doing THAT? — Matthew Norman

What I really hated, of course, was my mind. There must have been an off switch somewhere, but I was damned if I could find it. — David Sedaris

You know what the true definition of hell is? It's when you die, you get to meet the person you could have been. — Frank Mir

They were mirrors to each other. Gwinvere Kirena would have been perfect for him - if he could love what he saw in the mirror. — Brent Weeks

I could have played more complex stuff. I could have been a busier player. But that's not what I wanted to do. I played what I wanted to play. — Don Henley

When I was me I remembered
I could remember what was not there
but may have been there
once — W.S. Merwin

I have no reason to go, except that I have never been, and knowledge is better than ignorance. What better reason could there be for travelling? — Freya Stark

I think I need to face
what I could have been in order to understand and accept what I am. — Cecelia Ahern

And I sighed and wept for what could not be
and for all that could have been. — Lang Leav

We could have been the greatest love story ever told.
If only you'd stayed in character. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I could have been hanging out with my friends, but most of them were hanging out with their families or their Wiis. (Wiis? Wiii? What is the plural?) — David Levithan

I have always done the best I could, and yet, somehow, it has never been enough. No one cared what I did. They always turned their backs on me. — Marie Lu

Don't give up love for what might be, for if you do, you shall never know what could have been. — Darby Browne

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely. — Gordon Ramsay

Blaine needed what she was unable to give and she needed what he was unable to give, and she grieved this, the loss of what could have been. So — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Tasting what could have been - what should have been - didn't make it easier. — Kele Moon

Myself," said the drone sniffily, "I have never been able to see what virtue there could be in something that was eighty percent water. — Iain M. Banks

If you start comparing my practice of law to what I could have been - selling bananas - you'll know why I gave money to the University of Texas. — Joe Jamail

I mean as long as I have been doing music I know I am only 30% of what I could be and want to be. — Tim McGraw

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

It was terrible if you looked at things the way they could have been, but if you concentrated on what there was, it didn't look too bad. — Elizabeth Cadell

I like things to be what they're going to be. Not what they were. Or could have been. — Angie Smibert

What happened to you could have been worse - it could have happened to me. — Ashleigh Brilliant

I've been worried for a long time. I've just been doing what I could. I don't really have much choice. — Makoto Shinkai

A sold-out house my first night back. Do you have any idea what kinda pressure that is? I could have been at home in my warm bed, playing Nintendo. — Richard Pryor

What would be awful would be to die and look back miserably - seeing only the bad things, the opportunities missed, or what could have been. — Audrey Hepburn

He spent too much time mourning what could have been and questioning what should be. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I'm not going to hold my breath because life goes on. Life is too short to sit around moaning about what could have been or what was. — Tina Weymouth

Twitter is like overhearing people's conversations, which is exactly what dictionary editors have been wishing we could do for years. — Erin McKean

Life is full of what-ifs, many of which could easily have been realities, had just a few things been different. — Julian Baggini

I supposed, perhaps, you miss the promise of what could have been, while at the same time you are grateful that what it was instead is over. — Sylvia Day

I could have never dreamed what an amazing ride this has been. — Jennie Finch

We all long for what could have been. — Sarah Ockler

We all have it in us to be something other than what we are, I thought, but we don't often get a glimpse of what we could have been — Alastair Reynolds

My heart is empty.
But my brain -
my brain is full.
It races with thoughts
of what could have been. — Samantha Schutz

Things are what they are and there's no point dwelling in the past or wondering what could have been. — Emily Giffin

No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place. — Ammianus Marcellinus

It was no good to look back, to apologize for what had happened, or to wonder what could have been different. — Lily Blake

What fascinates me are the turning points where history could have been different. — Hilary Mantel

Closure. Such an odd concept. Did relationships really need it? Or was it just an excuse for one last glimpse at what could have been? — Alessandra Torre

You have been good for me. What more could anyone ask for? I'm a better person than I was before we got together. That's your doing. — Kent Haruf

Even when life turns out different than what you've planned, it's always better to try and fail than to wonder what could have been. — Kirsten Hubbard

Is this what's going to make you happy?'
'How different everything could have been, if you had thought to ask me that before. — Marissa Meyer

What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed. — Edward Gorey

She would wonder what had hurt her when she found her face wet with tears, and then would wonder how she could have been hurt without knowing it. — George MacDonald

I have always been guided by striving to show the best that I could. That is what kept me going in tennis and it is the same now. — Steffi Graf