Might Have Been Quotes - Page 11

• El consejo de una mujer nos llevó primero al infortunio,
  e hizo que su hombre renunciara a su paraíso,
  donde vivía a sus anchas; y podría haber estado
  Tan libre del dolor como del pecado.

  John Dryden

  Women, Heart, Sorrow

  John Dryden, C. B., Esquire Charles BATHURST (1852). “Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]”, p.243

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• What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good purpose! It was that sort of despair that sucked away the sap of half the hours which might have been filled by energetic youthful activity: and the same demon tries to get hold of me again whenever an old work is dismissed and a new one is being meditated.

  George Eliot

  Despair, Trying, Sap

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.407, 谷月社

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• Marte atrae la imaginación humana como ningún otro planeta. Con una fuerza superior a la gravedad, atrae la mirada hacia su resplandeciente presencia roja en el claro cielo nocturno. Es como un ascua resplandeciente en un campo de luces etéreas, que proyecta energía y promesas. Inspira visiones de un mundo accesible. La mente se sumerge en pensamientos de lo que podría haber sido (si Marte estuviera un poco más cerca del Sol) y de lo que podría ser (si algún día los humanos plantaran colonias allí).

  John Noble Wilford

  Ojo, Noche, Luz

  John Noble Wilford (1991). "Marte llama: The Mysteries, the Challenges, the Expectations of Our Next Great Adventure in Space", Vintage

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• Could it be that time is too narrow for all events? Could it happen that all the seats within time might have been sold? Worried, we run along the train of events, preparing ourselves for the journey.

  Bruno Schulz

  Running, Journey, Events

  Bruno Schulz, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Goldfarb (2008). "La calle de los cocodrilos y otros cuentos", Penguin Classics

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• I have never been much of a groomer. I take baths a lot, but I don't wear deodorant. I don't have to. I have a miraculous body scent. I've had women smell me and say that should be bottled. I would advise guys to lay off the Drakkar, because the cavemen weren't wearing it. They might have been putting mint leaves on their balls, but your scent is grown naturally. I have really good dating advice.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Smell, Dating, Guy

  "Zach Galifianakis: Pronto te reirás de este hombre". Entrevista con Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. 2 de junio de 2009.

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• Cuando me encontré por primera vez con los poemas de Jon Woodward, me quedé estupefacta en el estado que es la alegría de mi vida: estaba en presencia de lo inimitable. Uncanny Valley lleva esa experiencia casi a otra dimensión. Estos poemas apocalípticos y pixelados forjan una mitología de nuestra cultura devastada, que podría haberse escrito en el futuro. Si quiere que la poesía le ofrezca un caqui en un plato, busque en otra parte; si quiere saber qué ocurre cuando caen siete árboles en la autopista y la historia la cuenta un tartamudo, éste es el libro, y sólo podría haberlo escrito Woodward.

  Mary Ruefle

  Libro, Otoño, Regalos

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• Deja que otros lleven vidas pequeñas, pero no tú. Deja que otros discutan por cosas pequeñas, que se quejen de lo que podría haber sido, pero no tú. Deja que otros lloren por pequeñas heridas, déjalos que se desanimen, déjalos que sean vengativos y vengativos, pero no tú. Deja que otros dejen su futuro en manos de otros, deja que se vuelvan materialistas y vacíos, pero no tú. Deja que otros se vuelvan desagradecidos y dejen de rezar, ¡pero no tú! Deja que otros se rindan, ¡pero no tú! Porque tú sabes en quién crees y sabes que Él siempre puede. Ese eres tú.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivación, Herir, Rendirse

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• Style consists in maintaining a convincing reality all through a piece. It's like wearing a garment that looks as if it might have been made for you even if it wasn't.

  Arlene Croce

  Reality, Style, Looks

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• Feeble are we? Yes, without God we are nothing. But what, by faith, every man may be, God requires him to be. This is the only Christian idea of duty. Measure obligation by inherent ability! No, my brethren, Christian obligation has a very different measure. It is measured by the power that God will give us, measured by the gifts and possible increments of faith. And what a reckoning will it be for many of us, when Christ summons us to answer before Him under the law, not for what we are, but for what we might have been.

  Horace Bushnell

  Cristiano, Hombres, Ley

  Horace Bushnell (1876). “Sermons for the New Life”

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• Those who have to face persistent political persecution become highly politicized. Our lives take on a rhythm different from those who, on waking up in the morning, do not need to wonder who might have been arrested during the night and what further acts of blatant injustice might be committed against our people later during the day. Our antennae become highly sensitive to vibrations barely noticed by those whose everyday existence is removed from political struggle.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Morning, Struggle, Night

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• How many serious family quarrels, marriages out of spite, and alterations of wills, might have been prevented by a gentle dose of blue pill!-What awful instances of chronic dyspepsia in the characters of Hamlet and Othello! Banish dyspepsia and spirituous liquors from society, and you have no crime, or at least so little that you would not consider it worth mentioning.

  Charles Kingsley

  Character, Blue, Pills

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• Creo que es más fácil jugar cuando tienes un hogar equilibrado. Creo que si hubiera tenido alcoholismo en mi vida personal, o mi madre, o alguien cercano a mí, habría sido mucho más incómodo entrar ahí.

  Angelina Jolie

  Madre, Hogar, Pensamiento

  "Angelina Jolie se vuelve conservadora en El buen pastor". Entrevista con Julian Roman, movieweb.com. 18 de diciembre de 2006.

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• An emotion that lives with me is a sense of what might have been had injuries not robbed me of my most lethal weapon - speed.

  Michael Owen

  Might, Weapons, Emotion

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• Life moves in one direction only - and each day we are faced with an actual set of circumstances, not with what might have been, not with what we might have done, but with what is, and with where we are now- and from this point we must proceed; not from where we were, not from where we wish we were - but from where we are.

  Richard L. Evans

  Moving, One Direction, Wish

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• Sometimes it seems that we might have been happier if we had once had an aristocracy to blame everything on.

  Anatole Broyard

  Government, Aristocracy, Might

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• Podría haber habido cien o mil planetas con vida, si el curso de la evolución del universo hubiera sido un poco diferente, o podría no haber habido ninguno. Probablemente añadirían que, como la vida y el hombre se han producido, eso demuestra que su producción fue posible; y por lo tanto, si no ahora, en algún otro momento, si no aquí, entonces en algún otro planeta de algún otro sol, deberíamos estar seguros de haber llegado a existir; o si no exactamente lo mismo que somos, entonces algo un poco mejor o un poco peor.

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Creer, Hombres, Cuerpo

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• We are all in situations of our own choosing.  Our thinking creates a pathway to success or failure.  By disclaiming responsibility for our present, we crush the prospect of an incredible future that might have been ours.

  Andy Andrews

  Motivational, Crush, Responsibility

  Andy Andrews (2009). “Traveler's Gift; Mastering the Seven Decisions”, p.27, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• There is not a single rule, however plausible, and however firmly grounded in epistemology, that is not violated at some time or other. It becomes evident that such violations are not accidental events, they are not results of insufficient knowledge or of inattention which might have been avoided. On the contrary, we see that they are necessary for progress.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Science, Progress, Events

  Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.14, Verso

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• Todo el éxito que he logrado, todos los puestos de liderazgo que he ocupado han dependido menos de los títulos de la Ivy League o de las puntuaciones SAT o GPA y se han debido en cambio a ese sentido de conexión y empatía, a la obligación especial que sentía como hombre negro como tú de ayudar a los que más lo necesitan, a personas que no tuvieron las oportunidades que yo tuve porque ahí, pero por la gracia de Dios voy yo. Podría haber estado en la cárcel. Podría haber estado desempleado. Podría no haber sido capaz de mantener a una familia. Y eso me motiva.

  Barack Obama

  Oportunidad, Hombres, Gpa

  "La vuelta al mundo" con Michael Holmes y Suzanne Malveaux, www.cnn.com. 20 de mayo de 2013.

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• Shakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age still less civilized Shakespeare might have been wilder, but would not have been vulgar.

  Horace Walpole

  Age, Genius, Might

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• [The reason a man has] so much trouble with the Senate is that there isn't a man in the Senate who doesn't think he is better suited to be President than the President, and thinks he might have been President except for luck.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Men, Thinking, Arrogance

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• We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name.

  Charles Lamb

  Dream, Names, Waiting

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.113

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• ¡Mira a la madre de Washington! Ella crió a un niño que no podía decir una mentira... ¡no podía decir una mentira! Pero nunca tuvo ninguna oportunidad. Podría haber sido diferente si hubiera pertenecido al Club de Corresponsales de Washington...

  Mark Twain

  Mother, Truth, Lying

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.1026, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, "could have, might have, should have,and might have been." Create yourself and live the story of your own unique life.

  Rita Zahara

  Motivational, Unique, Should Have

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• An atheist before Darwin could have said, following Hume: I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one. I can't help feeling that such a position, though logically sound, would have left one feeling pretty unsatisfied, and that although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Design, Waiting

  "The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design". Book by Richard Dawkins, September 28, 2015.

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