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Internet's been down most of the day [at work]. Doing research by just asking everyone what we remember to be true. What could possibly go wrong? — Rachel Maddow

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

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

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

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

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

Weren't we though? Timeless? Nothing could change what we'd had all those years before, even if the idea of what might've been lingered between us. — Renee Carlino

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

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 be limited by what has been. Be inspired knowing that what could be is far greater than your wildest dreams. — Cheryl Richardson

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

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we can spend our lives talking about what could of been; but that takes the time of working on what we could be — Darrius Garrett

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

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've been here all the time; I could be putting out as many albums as Costello, y'know what I mean? — Shane MacGowan

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

There is no point in thinking of what could've been; no point in belaboring the past. — Christine Fonseca

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

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

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

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

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever. — Madeleine Albright

What could be more unjust than hurting an animal or a child? When you've been gifted dominion over something, that responsibility is real. — Maggie Q

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

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

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

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

My mother took the measure of what could be built with the material she'd been given, and she built it. — Daniel Smith

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

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

No one ever gets to see what could've been. — Charlie Tahan

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

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

Let go of resentment, for it will hold you back. Do not worry about what could've been, what is to come is what matters. — Leon Brown

And you'd be left with beautiful memories and the longing for what had been and what could never be again — Julie Kagawa

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 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

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

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

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