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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
«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