Quotes with has-been

Quotes 1741 till 1760 of 5418.

  • Thomas Jefferson I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Bert Williams I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.
    Bert Williams
    American entertainer and comedian (1874 - 1922)
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  • Henry Miller I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Anne Campbell I have never been afraid to stand up to the leadership on issues where we disagree. If you chose to keep Cambridge Labour, then I can continue to press the Government for the things that matter to you, in a way that members of the opposition are unable to.
    Anne Campbell
    English politician (1940 - )
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  • Calvin Coolidge I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Daniel Boone I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.
    Daniel Boone
     
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  • Astrid Lindgren I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.
    Astrid Lindgren
    Swedish children's book and novelist (1907 - 2002)
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  • Edmund Burke I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Bill Clinton I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo; your time has come and gone. It's time for change in America.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Mark Twain I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Joan Didion I have not been the witness I wanted to be.
    Source: A Book of Common Prayer (1977) 272
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Stephen Hawking I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex.
    Source: The Illustrated Brief History of Time , voorwoord
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Winston Churchill I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Butch Trucks I have the distinction of being the only member of the Allman Brothers who has never missed a single show. I have played every single show the Allman Brothers have ever played.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Busy Philipps I have the emergency kit in my purse that has double-sided tape and Tylenol, and a small energy bar. I'm the one that has an extra lip gloss just in case.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson II I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Adam Jones I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
    Adam Jones
    American musician (1965 - )
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  • Barnett Newman I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.
    Source: Selected Writings and Interviews
    Barnett Newman
    American artist (1905 - 1970)
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  • Oscar Wilde I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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