Quotes by Might Have Been I don't think anything might have been. What is, is. Edward Gorey might-have-been might thinking What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed. Edward Gorey might-have-been has-beens might Another occupation might have been better. F. H. Bradley might-have-been occupation might But the might-have-been is but boggy ground to build upon. Herman Melville might-have-been has-beens might You are nobody, and I might have been somebody, and the road to each of us is love. John Fante might-have-been has-beens might Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward. John Steinbeck might-have-been tendencies might We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing. Letitia Elizabeth Landon might-have-been common might I was a protestor. I was such a protestor that I regularly protested things that might have been good for me. Maria Dahvana Headley might-have-been has-beens might You can't afford to think about what might have been. You just be aware of what is. Noel Gallagher might-have-been might thinking He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn't as hopless a thing as it might have been. Patricia Briggs might-have-been vampire might James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathematicians of his time had he not been absolutely wanting in the power of continuous work. Simon Newcomb might-have-been mathematician might