Quotes with might-have-been

Quotes 3401 till 3420 of 9541.

  • Arthur Rimbaud Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
    Arthur Rimbaud
    French poet (1854 - 1891)
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  • Jeremy Collier Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
    Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • Tom Wolfe If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.
    Tom Wolfe
    American author and journalist (1930 - 2018)
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  • Abdolkarim Soroush If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.
    Abdolkarim Soroush
    Iranian Islamic thinker and reformer (1945 - )
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  • Bob Uecker If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.
    Bob Uecker
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) player (1934 - )
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  • Bob Uecker If a guy hits.300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around.190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.
    Bob Uecker
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) player (1934 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Sigmund Freud If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson If a man loves the labor of his trade apart from any question of success or fame, the Gods have called him.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Josh Billings If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Bram Stoker If a man's esteem and gratitude are ever worth the winning, you have won mine today. If ever the future should bring to you a time when you need a man's help, believe me, you will not call in vain. God grant that no such time may ever come to you to break the sunshine of your life; but if it should ever come, promise me that you will let me know.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Carl Sagan If a marker were to be erected today, it might read, in homage to his scientific courage: He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions.
    Cosmos (1980) p. 67
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bill Hader If a movie doesn't even have financing yet, they'll do a table read for it at a casting director's office with actors, for the producer and the writer, just to hear if the movie is working.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Will Rogers If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Ouida If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • Anais Nin If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Oprah Winfrey If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Arthur Eddington If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
    Arthur Eddington
    English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882 - 1944)
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  • Billy Collins If an artist is driven primarily by social responsibility, I think the art probably suffers because, again, just as leadership has a rather defined end point or purpose, social responsibility would seem to have a very clear moral context.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Ben Bradlee If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good journalism.
    Ben Bradlee
    American journalist (1921 - 2014)
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