Quotes with might-have-been

Quotes 3521 till 3540 of 9541.

  • Abraham Cahan If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.
    The Rise of David Levinsky
    Abraham Cahan
    Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician
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  • Betsey Johnson If it hadn't been for the rise of the working woman's wardrobe, I never would have found the time to sneak a kid in.
    Betsey Johnson
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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  • Alan Thicke If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor and songwriter (1947 - 2016)
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  • Alan Thicke If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor, songwriter, comedian, writer and television host (1947 - 2016)
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  • Dennis Roch If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
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  • Nicolas Chamfort If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Cesare Pavese If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be!
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Bill Bruford If it's fast, no I don't have enough piano technique. In that case, it's probably been done on some kind of synthesizer or sequencer. Then the score can then be printed out and so forth.
    Bill Bruford
    English drummer, composer and producer (1949 - )
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  • Henry Kissinger If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.
    Henry Kissinger
    American politician (1923 - 2023)
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  • Carine Roitfeld If Kate Moss hadn't been booked when she was 14, Kate Moss might not exist.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • William Hazlitt If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains - then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Henry Ford If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Charles Morgan If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.
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  • Raymond Chandler If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Bobby Flay If my daughter wants to get into this business, I would support that decision. She's going to have a hard time not being in it. She loves food and she's around it all the time.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Woody Allen If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Alexander Herzen If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there. It will be what men and circumstances make it.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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