Quotes with might-have-been

Quotes 4121 till 4140 of 9541.

  • Carolyn Heilbrun Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.
    Carolyn Heilbrun
    American academic and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Is it a fact - or have I dreamt it - that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Billy Mays Is it demonstratable? Does it have that wow factor? Is it easy to use? Is it priced right?
    Billy Mays
    American television direct-response advertisement salesperson (1958 - 2009)
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  • Plato Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • George Eliot Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Quentin Crisp Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Beau Willimon Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Hilaire Belloc Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.
    Hilaire Belloc
    British Author (1870 - 1953)
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  • Arna Bontemps Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?
    Arna Bontemps
    American poet, novelist and librarian
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  • Albert Einstein Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Ariel Sharon Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial.
    Ariel Sharon
    Israeli general and politician (1928 - 2014)
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  • Janet Guthrie It (racing) is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going.
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  • Josh Billings It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Robert A. Cook It all depends on whether you have things, or they have you.
    Robert A. Cook
    American Christian author, radio broadcaster, and pastor (1912 - 1991)
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  • Khaled Hosseini It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
    The Kite Runner
    Khaled Hosseini
    Afghan-born American novelist and physician (1965 - )
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  • Blanche Lincoln It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have.
    Blanche Lincoln
    American politician and lawyer (1960 - )
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  • William Shakespeare It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Carol Burnett It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.
    Carol Burnett
    American actress, comedian, singer, and writer (1933 - )
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are considered to be Thai have traveled abroad in a great number.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Adam Sandler It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you're living your life. I wouldn't compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it's about a man who doesn't appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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