Quotes with might-have-been

Quotes 2801 till 2820 of 9541.

• I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

  John Ruskin
  English art critic (1819 - 1900)
  - +

   0
• I have seldom known a person, who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance.

  Babe Paley
  American socialite and style icon (1915 - 1978)
  - +

   0
• I have since wandered among men of many races and many religions.

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
  - +

   0
• I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.
  

  Stephen Hawking
  English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
  - +

   0
• I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex.

  The Illustrated Brief History of Time , voorwoord

  Stephen Hawking
  English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
  - +

   0
• I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

  Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
  Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
  - +

   0
• I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I like the role.

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
  - +

   0
• I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

  Marcel Marceau
  French artist (1923 - 2007)
  - +

   0
• I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.
  
  l
  

  Bruce Springsteen
  American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
  - +

   0
• I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

  William Butler Yeats
  Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
  - +

   0
• I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.

  Arthur Rimbaud
  French poet (1854 - 1891)
  - +

   0
• I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

  Baruch Spinoza
  Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
  - +

   0
• I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
  - +

   0
• I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

  Thomas Jefferson
  American statesman (1743 - 1826)
  - +

   0
• I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.

  Eldridge Cleaver
  American afro-amerikan leader, writer (1935 - 1998)
  - +

   0
• I have taken great care not to deride, bewail, or execrate human actions, but to understand them.

  Tractatus Politicus Ch. 1

  Baruch Spinoza
  Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
  - +

   0
• I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

  Winston Churchill
  English statesman (1874 - 1965)
  - +

   0
• I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.
  

  Sylvia Plath
  American poet (1932 - 1963)
  - +

   0
• I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

  George Eliot
  English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
  - +

   0
• 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)
  - +

   0

Subjects in these quotes:

• introspectively
• distinction
• understand
• constantly
• conviction
• production

Greatest-Quotations.com

Already since 2003 providing you with the best quotations