Quotes with might-have-been

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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.
    A Book of Common Prayer (1977) 272
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Emily Brontë I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.
    Wuthering Heights (1847)
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Katherine Anne Porter I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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  • Thomas Jefferson I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Angelina Grimké I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for.
    Angelina Grimké
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • Arlen Specter I have not taken a position on that nuclear option. My view is I'm not going to do anything until I come to that bridge. I'm not going to jump off the bridge until I come to it.
    Arlen Specter
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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  • Alfred Nobel I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.
    Alfred Nobel
    Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist (1833 - 1896)
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  • Leonard Cohen I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jackie Kennedy. She is, to my mind, a very gallant lady, victimized by whoever it is who designs the tops of her uniforms.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Oscar Wilde I have nothing to declare except my genius.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Winston Churchill I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Ernest Hemingway I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation. A doctor who cannot take out your appendix properly will recommend you to a doctor who will be unable to remove your tonsils with success.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Stephen Hawking I have noticed that even people who claim everything is predetermined and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
    Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays (1993)
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • E. V. Lucas I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
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  • Patrick Henry I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.
    Patrick Henry
    American attorney, planter, and orator (1736 - 1799)
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Yves Saint-Laurent I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
    Yves Saint-Laurent
    French fashion designer (1936 - 2008)
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  • Noam Chomsky I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Francis Bacon I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Jimmy Carter I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
    Jimmy Carter
    American statesman, 39e President (1924 - )
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