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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
I could tell him I've been worried for weeks about what the aptitude test will tell me - Abnegation, Candor, Erudite, Amity, or Dauntless?
— Veronica Roth
Could you hate your son for what he had done, and still love him for who he had been? The
— Jodi Picoult
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
I've been just wondering lately, if this is, you know, it. An apartment and a steady job and some people to love. What more could I want?
— Michael Cunningham
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
I've never been afraid of much, and like any normal kid, I liked to push the limits of what I could do.
— Kacy Catanzaro
I could have been 23 next July I gambled on what mattered most, the dice were cast. I lost. — Hannah Senesh
What I don't think has been talked about is the fact that in order to be Hell, the people in Hell could never be sure they were really there.
— Denis Johnson
He realized what a fool he had been. There could be no tolerating of evil. One stamped it out or the evil grew worse.
— Louis L'Amour
Occurred to him that no one who hadn't been in battle could know what things were worth.
— Chris Cleave
What I did cannot be forgiven, any more than it could have been avoided.
— Heather Day Gilbert
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
Nothing yet. I've been waiting.""for what?"
she made no response. she could not tell him that she had been waiting for him. — Milan Kundera
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
Don't be limited by what has been. Be inspired knowing that what could be is far greater than your wildest dreams.
— Cheryl Richardson
What's odd is that I've never been asked to do any comedy in film. That's something I could certainly do.
— Richard McCabe
We all long for what could have been.
— Sarah Ockler
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
I've been here all the time; I could be putting out as many albums as Costello, y'know what I mean?
— Shane MacGowan
Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.
— Gordon Ramsay
I had been given the greatest gift an education could provide: I had a better idea of what it meant to live a good life
— Eric Greitens
Don't give up love for what might be, for if you do, you shall never know what could have been.
— Darby Browne
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 loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
— Madeleine Albright
No one could ever be for me what [he] had been because he had known me when, and that had kept me away from the true reality of my years.
— Elizabeth Berg
I think I need to facewhat I could have been in order to understand and accept what I am. — Cecelia Ahern
She could barely remember what life had been like before him and didn't even want to try. All Grace knew was that she wanted to be with him, always.
— Victoria Michaels
It did not mean those things he had been told it meant, that the soldier could now rest, that his job was done. What job? Why? How could anyone rest?
— Richard Flanagan
When I was me I rememberedI could remember what was not there
but may have been there
once — W.S. Merwin
MS Dhoni showed India what a tough man from a small town could dream and achieve. He has been a role model. Respect.
— Harsha Bhogle
Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.
— Christopher Hitchens
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
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
I've always been searching. What am I going to do with all this - searching for that place where I could be me.
— Desiree Rogers
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
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
Life is full of what-ifs, many of which could easily have been realities, had just a few things been different.
— Julian Baggini
She was strangely unaware that she could look and see freshly for herself, as she wrote, without primary regard for what had been said before.
— Robert M. Pirsig
In eternity people's lives could be altogether what they were and had been, not just the worst things they ever did, or the best things either.
— Marilynne Robinson
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
He spent too much time mourning what could have been and questioning what should be.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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
And you'd be left with beautiful memories and the longing for what had been and what could never be again
— Julie Kagawa
But what was I but a scared child lost in a strange world? How could I replace all that been lost? Where was my place in the world?
— Patrick Carman
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
What happened to you could have been worse - it could have happened to me.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
No one ever gets to see what could've been.
— Charlie Tahan
I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be!
— Kathryn Lasky
I like things to be what they're going to be. Not what they were. Or could have been.
— Angie Smibert
My mother took the measure of what could be built with the material she'd been given, and she built it.
— Daniel Smith
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
There's no point dwelling on what might or could have been. You just have to go forward.
— Jack Nicholson
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
Things are what they are and there's no point dwelling in the past or wondering what could have been.
— Emily Giffin
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 been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.
— Vivienne Westwood
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
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
It was no good to look back, to apologize for what had happened, or to wonder what could have been different.
— Lily Blake
I became an actress and studied human emotions so that I could give the gift of feelings to my son. This is what my whole journey has been about.
— Tisha Campbell-Martin
No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place.
— Ammianus Marcellinus
There is no point in thinking of what could've been; no point in belaboring the past.
— Christine Fonseca
That once people decided what they thought of you, that was it. You'd been judged. You got a stamp on your forehead that you could never wash off.
— Chelsea M. Cameron
My heart is empty.But my brain -
my brain is full.
It races with thoughts
of what could have been. — Samantha Schutz
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
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
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