1.
The person I miss most is the one I could have been.
George Bernard Shaw
'The individual I regret not being is the one I yearn for.'
2.
Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.
Barack Obama
3.
Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.
Ozzy Osbourne
4.
It could have been worse. I could have been born black.
Stevie Wonder
5.
I'm no liar. I could have been wrong, but I ended up not being [wrong]. But I'm no liar.
Stephen A. Smith
6.
Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.
Abba Eban
7.
What happened to you could have been worse - it could have happened to me.
Ashleigh Brilliant
8.
Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.
Isabelle Adjani
9.
But...as bad as it was, I learned something about myself. That I could go through something like that and survive. I mean, I know it could have been worse--a lot worse-- but for me, it was all I could have handled at the time. And I learned from it.
Nicholas Sparks
11.
If I could have been anyone in the world, it would have been Ronaldinho. He's fantastic, I love watching him.
Frank Lampard
14.
Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.
Richard Whately
15.
Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed.
Jean-Luc Godard
16.
I am always frustrated when I see situations that could have been handled simpler.
Renee Lawless
17.
If he had had no education, maybe Basho could have been a much greater poet.
Nanao Sakaki
18.
I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.
Enya
19.
Don’t think about it. Don’t think about what could have been. It’s too unbearable.
Sophie Kinsella
20.
History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.
Edmond de Goncourt
21.
I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel.
Vladimir Nabokov
22.
If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before.
David Gest
23.
Tatiana: "Why did we spend two days fighting when we could have been doing this?" Alexander: "That wasn't fighting, Tatiana. That was foreplay.
Paullina Simons
24.
Perfect night, wasn't it?" "It could have been." I smiled up at him. "But you were there.
Kelley Armstrong
25.
They could have been removed. They could have been hidden. They could have been destroyed.
Tony Blair
26.
It could have been the whole thing where you stabbed him.
Cassandra Clare
27.
My career could have been prolonged for longer
Micky Quinn
28.
I had been alone more than I could have been had I gone by myself.
Sylvia Plath
29.
Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?
Gilbert K. Chesterton
30.
It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
Alan Paton
31.
There were times when I wondered if I was doing the right thing, studying when I could have been going to auditions.
Eve Hewson
32.
My life could have been so grim really, really grim.
Graham Norton
33.
No one could have been more surprised than I at my successes, and yet deep within me there was acknowledgment that had I not succeeded, I would have been equally surprised.
Margery Wilson
35.
I could have been better. That's my goal now, to be better.
Jayson Williams
36.
Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.
Yancy Butler