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Letter "M" » might-have-been
«No star is ever lost we once have seen,We always may be what we might have been.»
«It is never to late to be what you might have been»
«Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn't-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been.»
Author: Marva Collins
(Educator)
| Keywords:
calling together, ghost, Ghost in, haunted, Have You, meant, might-have-been, They Live, The Haunted, The Haunting
«Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.»
«People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.»
Author: Andre Maurois
(Biographer, Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
People
| Keywords:
contemptuous, might-have-been, scornful, treated
«I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.»
Author: Edna St. Vincent Millay
| Keywords:
abided, abide by, Abide With Me, glad, might-have-been, most-valuable, paid, Pay Less, saved
«I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.»
Author: Gerald R. Ford
(President, Vice President)
| Keywords:
bay, Detroit, Green Bay, Green Bay Packers, hard up, Jerry Ford, might-have-been, pro, professional football, pro football
«I might have been able to make it as a pitcher except for one thing: I had a rather awkward motion and every time I brought my left arm forward I hit myself in the ear.»
Author: Casey Stengel
(Baseball Player, Manager)
| Keywords:
bring forward, forward motion, might-have-been
«It is never too late to be what you might have been.»
«No sooner is your ocean filled, than he grumbles that it might have been of better vintage. Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarrelling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: it is even as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
black spot, declares, grumble, grumbles, grumbling, maltreated, might-have-been, omnipotence, proprietor, vintage
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