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Could Have Been Quotes

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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.'
Authors on Could Have Been Quotes: Nicholas Sparks Alan Paton Louisa May Alcott Nanao Sakaki Eve Hewson Graham Norton Richard Whately Margery Wilson Ashleigh Brilliant Ozzy Osbourne Kamila Shamsie Enya Jayson Williams Sophie Kinsella George Bernard Shaw Yancy Butler J. D. Salinger Edmond de Goncourt Jean-Luc Godard Stephen A. Smith Barack Obama Frank Lampard Vladimir Nabokov Laurell K. Hamilton David Gest Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Stevie Wonder Paullina Simons Kelley Armstrong Tony Blair Isabelle Adjani Cassandra Clare Micky Quinn
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

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It could have been worse. I could have been born black.
Stevie Wonder

5.
What happened to you could have been worse - it could have happened to me.
Ashleigh Brilliant

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I'm no liar. I could have been wrong, but I ended up not being [wrong]. But I'm no liar.
Stephen A. Smith

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

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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

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I could have been a great many things.
Louisa May Alcott

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Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.
Isabelle Adjani

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Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.
Richard Whately

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If I could have been anyone in the world, it would have been Ronaldinho. He's fantastic, I love watching him.
Frank Lampard

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If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder
Laurell K. Hamilton

14.
There was a possibility I could have been under surveillance.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

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If he had had no education, maybe Basho could have been a much greater poet.
Nanao Sakaki

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I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.
Enya

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Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed.
Jean-Luc Godard

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I am always frustrated when I see situations that could have been handled simpler.
Renee Lawless

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

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History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.
Edmond de Goncourt

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

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There were times when I wondered if I was doing the right thing, studying when I could have been going to auditions.
Eve Hewson

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My life could have been so grim really, really grim.
Graham Norton

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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

25.
Those Genes Could Have Been Mine
Kamila Shamsie

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I could have been better. That's my goal now, to be better.
Jayson Williams

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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

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God, I wish you could have been there.
J. D. Salinger

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I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel.
Vladimir Nabokov

30.
If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before.
David Gest

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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

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They could have been removed. They could have been hidden. They could have been destroyed.
Tony Blair

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Perfect night, wasn't it?" "It could have been." I smiled up at him. "But you were there.
Kelley Armstrong

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It could have been the whole thing where you stabbed him.
Cassandra Clare

35.
I had been alone more than I could have been had I gone by myself.
Sylvia Plath

36.
My career could have been prolonged for longer
Micky Quinn

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Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?
Gilbert K. Chesterton