Quotes with ago-they

Quotes 1821 till 1840 of 5767.

  • Bill Gates If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Bram Fischer If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur.
    Bram Fischer
    South African lawyer and anti-apartheid activist (1908 - 1975)
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  • Kofi Annan If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.
    Source: Twitter (2015)
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Betty Carter If it wasn't for [pimps, prostitutes, hustlers, gangsters, and gamblers] there wouldn't be no jazz! They supported the club owners who bought the music. It wasn't the middle-class people who said Let's go hear Charlie Parker tonight.
    Betty Carter
    American jazz singer (1929 - 1998)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent, the number of the former would, in all cases, exceed that of the latter.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • George Burns If it's a good script I'll do it. And if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I'll do it.
    George Burns
    American Comedy Actor (1896 - 1996)
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  • Henry Block If it's good they'll stop making it.
    Henry Block
     
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  • Thomas Carlyle If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Aristotle If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • O. Henry If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
    O. Henry
    American short story writer, pen name of William S. Porter (1862 - 1910)
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  • William Hazlitt If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Jack Nicholson If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.
    Source: Graphic Showbiz , Issue 660
    Jack Nicholson
    American actor and filmmaker (born 1937) (1937 - )
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  • Henry Miller If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • André Maurois If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • John Updike If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Alphonse Karr If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.
    Alphonse Karr
    French writer and editor of Le Figaro (1808 - 1890)
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  • Baruch Spinoza If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
    Source: Ethics
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains - then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Francis Bacon If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Raymond Chandler If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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