Might Have Been famous quotes

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

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We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely
-- C. S. Lewis

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

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

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

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I don't think anything might have been. What is, is.
-- Edward Gorey

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

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Another occupation might have been better.
-- F. H. Bradley

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Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!
-- Fernando Pessoa

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

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You are nobody, and I might have been somebody, and the road to each of us is love.
-- John Fante

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We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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I was a protestor. I was such a protestor that I regularly protested things that might have been good for me.
-- Maria Dahvana Headley

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

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If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.
-- Sally Field

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We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.
-- Terry Goodkind

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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

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