Could Have Been Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.

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

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

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

We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.

God, I wish you could have been there.

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

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

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

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

I could have been a great many things.

If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder

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

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

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

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

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

I could have been a Vincent Young y'all know nothing about. I was on the wrong road, and it was a hard, hard time.

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

The person I miss most is the one I could have been.