He had been my
He had been my almost. My might-have-been. I was afraid of what I wanted most – His kiss. Still, I collected kiss stories. -Susie Salmon Alice Sebold
Might Have Been
This world crisis came
This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different. Alice Paul
There might have been
There might have been a hundred or a thousand life-bearing planets, had the course of evolution of the universe been a little different, or there might have been none at all. They would probably add, that, as life and man have been produced, that shows that their production was possible; and therefore, if not now … Read more
The world which credits
The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been. Alfred Lord Tennyson
Fiction is love and
Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens. Alfred Bertram Guthrie
But that’s not the
But that’s not the name of a man, it’s the name of a mountain! (…) It is my name, Athos said calmly. But you said your name was d’Artagnan. I? Yes, you. That is to say, someone said to me: ‘You are M. d’Artagnan?’ I replied: ‘You think so?’ My guards shouted that they were … Read more
To answer the purpose
To answer the purpose of the adversaries of the Constitution, they ought to prove, not merely that particular provisions in it are not the best, which might have been imagined; but that the plan upon the whole is bad and pernicious. Alexander Hamilton
No one’s interested really
No one’s interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me. Aldrich Ames
There are quite a
There are quite a few things I’ve done that even I thought might have been one step too far. But if you are willing to make a fool of yourself and make people smile, as long as you do it with a sense of fun, you can get away with it. Richard Branson
This attempt to isolate
This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen. Albert Claude