Quotes with might-have-been

Quotes 3541 till 3560 of 9541.

  • Al Sharpton If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Bret Harte If of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been, More sad are those we daily see, It is, but it hadn't ought to be.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Alan Thicke If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor and songwriter (1947 - 2016)
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  • Alan Thicke If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor, songwriter, comedian, writer and television host (1947 - 2016)
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  • Albert Einstein If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Ann Coulter If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Alberto Giacometti If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • Edith Wharton If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.
    The World of Mathematics (1956)
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • Anna Julia Cooper If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.
    Anna Julia Cooper
    American author, activist and sociologist (1858 - 1964)
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  • George Santayana If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Abigail Adams If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Stuart Briscoe If people concentrated on their responsibilities, others would have their rights.
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  • Barney Frank If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Caitlin Doughty If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or getting a pacemaker when they're 92, if they really knew what that was going to mean, they might say no, and we should give them that information.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Ali ibn Abi Talib If poverty were a man, I would have slain him.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
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  • Michel Foucault If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
    Michel Foucault
    French essayist and philosopher (1926 - 1984)
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  • Bill Clinton If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.
    The Clinton Foreign Policy Reader: Presidential Speeches with Commentary
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Vannevar Bush If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
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