Quotes with has-been

Quotes 4141 till 4160 of 5418.

  • Jackson Pollock The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
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  • Bruce Dern The Palestinians need more help from the Arab countries. Since 1967, the world has learned that there is not going to be real progress in the region until Palestine gets something back that they had.
    Bruce Dern
    American actor (1936 - )
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  • Thomas Robert Malthus The passion between the sexes has appeared in every age to be so nearly the same, that it may always be considered, in algebraic language as a given quantity.
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  • Oscar Wilde The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Susan Sontag The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Black Hawk The pathway to glory is rough, and many gloomy hours obscure it. May the Great Spirit shed light on yours, and that you may never experience the humiliation that the power of the American government has reduced me to, is the wish of him who, in his native forests, was once as proud as you.
    Source: The Autobiography of Black Hawk (1833)
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  • Hitopadesa The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • Barbara Amiel The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw The person I miss most is the one I could have been.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Joyce Brothers The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
    Joyce Brothers
    American psychologist and columnist (1927 - 2013)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Izaak Walton The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
    Izaak Walton
    British writer (1593 - 1683)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Don Piatt The person who has no enemies has no followers.
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  • Menander of Athens The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.
    Menander of Athens
    Greek dramati poet (342 - 291)
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  • Claudius Claudianus The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
    Claudius Claudianus
    Latin writer of Greek descent (370 - 404)
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  • Will Rogers The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, ''How is the president?''
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Jane Austen The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Busta Rhymes The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Ben E. King The Phil Spector that I would meet has always been a nice, quiet, little guy who's very serious about his work; obviously you can tell that because each and everything he's ever done has always been charted.
    Ben E. King
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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