Quotes About Unrealized

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.

Nothing I know matters more Than what never happened. John Burnside, 'Hearsay

I never met Paul McCartney.

Nicio pierdere nu se simte mai acut decat pierderea a ceea ce ar fi putut sa fie. Nicio nostalgie nu doare la fel de mult ca nostalgia dupa lucrurile care n-au existat niciodata.

Le melodie ascoltate sono dolci, ma più dolci ancora sono quelle inascoltate, scrisse Keats. Nessuna perdita viene avvertita più profondamente della perdita di ciò che sarebbe potuto essere. Nessuna nostalgia fa male quanto la nostalgia per le cose che non sono mai esistite.

You always think "woulda, coulda, shoulda." I wish that I had prosecuted Tot Mom, I wish I'd prosecuted OJ, and I wish I had prosecuted the JonBenet Ramsey case.

Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.

Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition.

Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us -- what happens with the rest?

The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.

What we look for in the school is unrealized potential.

When I look around, I see a world of unrealized opportunities for improvements, an abundance of talented people able to take the risks necessary to make improvements, but a shortage of people and investors willing to take those risks.

only denied him the choice of his will's direction: I never denied him its strength. It's the strength of will they so signally lack themselves which makes the herd so dependent on him. Themselves they pursue their ends so feebly; but he lets no obstacle stand in the way of their faintest unspoken and even unrealized wishes....

I see people as the nucleus of a great idea that hasn't come to be yet.

Human history is littered with might-have-beens.

To bring power, fantasy must remain to some degree unrealized, literally unreal.

potential unrealized turns to pain.

But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet.

The shadow past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst.

Ah, no hay nostalgia más dolorosa que la de las cosas que nunca han sucedido!

The talent of essentially half of the Czech athletic population has been squandered.

The wealth in many large estates has never been taxed because it is largely in the form of unrealized - therefore untaxed - capital gains.

For every just potential that go's unrealized, is a tragedy.

I can see it's all there. All there, but nothing yet done. I can see it in the eyes, all there already in the eyes.