Quotes with has-been

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  • William Blake Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Henri Matisse Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
    Henri Matisse
    French painter and sculptor (1869 - 1954)
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  • Florence King Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories... but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted déjà vu.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • Leo Buscaglia Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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  • Anita Brookner Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • T. S. Eliot Time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Anne Tyler Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Bobby Vinton Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin Timing has always been a key element in my life. I have been blessed to have been in the right place at the right time.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Arvo Part Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers - in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning.
    Arvo Part
    Estonian composer
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  • Epictetus To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Horace Walpole To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is, and despise affectation.
    Source: Letter to Sir Horace Mann (27-05-1776)
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Ari Fleischer To avoid a military conflict, Saddam Hussein has no other choice than to leave the country.
    Ari Fleischer
    American media consultant and political aide (1960 - )
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  • Leslie Fiedler To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.
    Leslie Fiedler
    American literary critic (1917 - 2003)
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  • Baltasar Gracián To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Anatoly Karpov To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.
    Anatoly Karpov
    Russian chess grandmaster (1951 - 1951)
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  • Albert Camus To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Butch Trucks To be honest, I don't listen to much music! I've been so engrossed in it my whole life that when I drive around in my car, I'll listen to college lectures on philosophy and literature and world history, things like that, to kind of catch up on the college experience I missed.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Samuel Johnson To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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