Quotes with has-been

Quotes 401 till 420 of 5418.

  • Sir Alec Guiness A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.
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  • Don Marquis A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Elbert Hubbard A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Benjamin Rush A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
    Benjamin Rush
    American politician (1745 - 1813)
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  • John Banville A plot begins when somebody has something to hide.
    Source: A Death In Summer
    John Banville
    Irish writer (1945 - )
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  • Mahatma Gandhi A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Harry S. Truman A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Edward. E. Cummings A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.
    Edward. E. Cummings
    American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894 - 1962)
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  • Max Lerner A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.
    Max Lerner
    American Author, Columnist (1902 - 1992)
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  • B. C. Forbes A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self-denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Abraham Lincoln A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general
    Source: Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • John Keats A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Josh Billings A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Carolyn Heilbrun A relationship has a momentum, it must change and develop, and will tend to move toward the point of greatest commitment.
    Carolyn Heilbrun
    American academic and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • Woody Allen A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Aaron Spelling A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?
    Aaron Spelling
    American film and television (1923 - 2006)
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  • Bob Graham A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Benjamin Franklin A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Carlos Salinas A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.
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