Quotes with might-have-been

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  • William Shakespeare I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, and from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Robert P. O'Brien I have tried - not always successful - to remember this lesson: Even people I dislike have a piece of God. My task is to move the junk out of the way so that I can find it.
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  • Ernest Hemingway I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Robert Benchley I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • Marshall Field I have tried to make all my acts and commercial moves the result of definite consideration and sound judgment. There were never any great ventures or risks. I practiced honest, slow-growing business methods, and tried to back them with energy and good system.
    Marshall Field
    American businessman (1834 - 1906)
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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 Grant I have two rules for a great book: make me think and make me smile.
    Adam Grant
    American author and professor (1981 - )
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  • Anna Louise Strong I have very little hope that any permission can be gained for your organization. However, I shall place it in a special folder with similar applications and raise the question from time to time with such people here as may have authority.
    Anna Louise Strong
    American journalist and activist (1885 - 1970)
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  • Bryan Magee I have very strongly this feeling... that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitudinous and yet mysterious and extraordinary.
    Heidegger and Modern Existentialism (1977)
    Bryan Magee
    British philosopher, broadcaster, politician (1930 - 2019)
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  • A. Philip Randolph I have waited twenty-two years for this... I've waited all my life for this opportunity.
    A. Philip Randolph
    American labor unionist and civil rights activist (1889 - 1979)
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  • Stephen Hawking I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • John D. Rockefeller I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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  • Themistocles I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.
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  • Mao Tse-Tung I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Joseph Conrad I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • George W. Bush I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.
    George W. Bush
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Anne McCaffrey I have written my own screen version of Pern, but had no buyers yet.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Carl Sandburg I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Charles M. Schwab I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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  • Bruce Willis I have zero interest in performing in films to try to convey any kind of message. My job is to be entertaining. There's a very different point of view about messages in films in Europe than there is in the States. Audiences rebel because they feel that they are being preached to.
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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