Quotes with has-been

Quotes 2001 till 2020 of 5418.

  • Alan Bennett I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
    Alan Bennett
    British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author (1934 - )
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  • Ronald Reagan I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.
    Source: Baltimore Debate, 21-09-1980
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Elizabeth Taylor I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?
    Elizabeth Taylor
    British-American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian (1932 - 2011)
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  • Bea Arthur I've seen so many excellent actors - excellent actors - who, the minute they're told they're in a comedy, turn into God knows what - creatures from another planet! I mean they just... the voice changes, they don't look the same, it's like - it has no similarity to any living human being, do you know what I mean?
    Bea Arthur
    American actress and comedian (1922 - 2009)
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  • Alberto Giacometti I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • Anais Nin I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Bill Moyers Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
    Bill Moyers
    American journalist (1934 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein If a company has acted badly, people want to punish it - not in order to deter future misconduct, but simply because they're outraged. And the more outraged they are, the more punishment they want to inflict.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Tom Wolfe If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.
    Tom Wolfe
    American author and journalist (1930 - 2018)
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  • Abdolkarim Soroush If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.
    Abdolkarim Soroush
    Iranian Islamic thinker and reformer (1945 - )
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
    Source: The Works of Benjamin Disraeli
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Arthur Machen If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.
    Arthur Machen
    Welsh author and mystic (1863 - 1947)
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  • James A. Michener If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
    James A. Michener
    American writer (1907 - 1997)
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  • Sigmund Freud If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Sam Rayburn If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
    Sam Rayburn
    American politician (1882 - 1961)
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  • George S. Patton If a man has done his best, what else is there?
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Thomas Wolfe If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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