Woulda Coulda Quotes & Sayings

The amazing exhibition of oil which has characterized the last twenty years, and will probably characterize the next ten or twenty years, is nevertheless, not only geologically but historically, a temporary and vanishing phenomenon ... — Peter Lesley

Shoulda, woulda, coulda. They were the Three Stooges of regret. All they were good for was saying whoop-whoop-whoop and smacking each other over the head. — Thea Harrison

Do you have a Facebook profile? — L.A. Casey

In life you gotta take chances the hell with shoulda, woulda, and coulda you never know what the out come will be. It may be a life full of success ... — Christopher J. Williams

I've always said that I myself am not the best audience for my own work, because I'm just not that receptive to comedy. — Todd Solondz

From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, as a king's favorite or a king. — Alexander Pope

Don't try me," Lucian warned in my head.
"Kiss my concubine ass," I returned in his. — Kristen Ashley

Life is full of those three." "Three?" "Woulda, shoulda, coulda. — Rachel Van Dyken

That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. — Stephen King

If only I woulda done that."
"I really shoulda done that."
"I coulda done that."
I ask, "Do you really know what your life would be like now if you made those choices?" Believing in regret strips away our only chance to create a better future. That chance: what we decide to do today, right now, in the present. — Charles F. Glassman

The things I could have done had Hollywood been more open? I don't dwell on coulda-woulda-shoulda. Because, hey, I've had a great career. — Pepe Serna

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it. — Pat Riley

What could you say about someone who walked daily into his grief and lived at the bottom of its hole and didn't even want to come out? — Marie Rutkoski

In those moments where you're not quite sure if the undead are really dead, dead, don't get all stingy with your bullets. I mean, one more clean shot to the head, and this lady could have avoided becoming a human Happy Meal. Woulda ... coulda ... shoulda. — Jesse Eisenberg

Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done. In attacking adversity, only a positive attitude, alertness, and regrouping to basics can launch a comeback. — Pat Riley

Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense. — Sarah Dessen

The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement.
[Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech] — John Steinbeck

Just because it's taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one else has spotted I'm a girl! — J.K. Rowling

I have managed to establish an identity that is based on my internal self, and for that I feel tremendously lucky. — David Rakoff

I suddenly knew it wasn't only the wonderful luxury of being in love that had been buoying me up: deep down, in some vague, mixed up way I had been letting myself hope he didn't really care for her, that it was me he loved and that kissing me would have made him realise it. 'You're a fool and worse -' I told myself. 'You're a would-be thief. — Dodie Smith

"Shouda, coulda, and woulda" won't get it done. — Pat Riley

Coulda made something o' himself. But a luckless man. All his days a luckless man. The kinna man woulda got two complimentary tickets for the Titanic." The unintentional humour of her remark was like her natural appetite for life reasserting itself. Harkness couldn't stop smiling. It was as if Glasgow couldn't shut the wryness of its mouth even at the edge of the grave. — William McIlvanney

I never wanted to be the person who said, "I woulda, coulda, shoulda." Life is way too short, and you may not last that long. — Joy Bryant

All The Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
Layin' In The Sun,
Talkin' 'Bout The Things
They Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda Done ...
But All Those Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
All Ran Away And Hid
From One Little Did. — Shel Silverstein

My soul, get Calvary's blood-red rose into thy hand by faith, by love wear it, by communion preserve it, by daily watchfulness make it thine all in all, and thou shalt be blessed beyond all bliss, happy beyond a dream. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Coulda, woulda, shoulda," Zoelner interrupted. "There's nothing you can do to change this morning. — Julie Ann Walker

Limits are self-imposed. But there are no limits to human energy nor the goals you can achieve. — Mike Shanahan

She [Mme des Laumes] belonged to that half of the human race in whom the curiosity the other half feels about the people it does not know is replaced by an interest in the people it does. — Marcel Proust

Woulda, shoulda, coulda. It's human nature to assume that we have that sort of control over what happens to us, but the truth is ... life happens and sometimes you're too late. Hell, sometimes you're too early. Sometimes you make the wrong choice just like sometimes you make the right one. The only time people ever use those three is when things don't go the right way. People don't question themselves when things are going well. They question themselves when things have gone to hell. — Rachel Van Dyken

Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting. — Jack Bowman