Quotes with might-have-been

Quotes 2521 till 2540 of 9541.

  • Lord Nelson I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me.
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  • Andrew Jackson I have always been afraid of banks.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Woodrow Wilson I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Thomas Mann I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • Sam Walton I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
    Sam Walton
    American businessman, founder Wal-Mart Stores (1918 - 1992)
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  • Orson Welles I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Germaine Greer I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Tennessee Williams I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
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    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Lord George Byron I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • George Gordon Byron I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
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  • Willie Shoemaker I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, can make anything he wants to make of himself.
    Willie Shoemaker
    American jockey (1931 - 2003)
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  • Rose F. Kennedy I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?
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  • Anthony Minghella I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films.
    Anthony Minghella
    British film director, playwright and screenwriter (1954 - 2008)
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  • Hermann Hesse I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Samuel Johnson I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Armistead Maupin I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Atom Egoyan I have always felt that this story is universal. When I began to understand the details of the history, I felt that the most compelling aspect was not what happened, but what continues to happen and how it is denied.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Lee Iacocca I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.
    Lee Iacocca
    American businessman and CEO of Chrysler (1924 - 2019)
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  • Abraham Lincoln I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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