Quotes with might-have-been

Quotes 4161 till 4180 of 9541.

  • Allen Klein It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Julie Burchill It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.
    Julie Burchill
    British journalist, writer
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  • Winston Churchill It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bertrand Russell It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Ronald Reagan It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Lord George Byron It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a ''grand peut-''tre'' - but still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it -the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Samuel Butler It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Harold Macmillan It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
    Harold Macmillan
    British Conservative politician, prime minister (1894 - 1986)
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  • Anthony Trollope It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Agnes Repplier It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Agnes Repplier It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Henry Fielding It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Ben Horowitz It helps to have founded and run a company if you're going to help somebody run a company who is a founder.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Carson McCullers It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
    Carson McCullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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  • Agnes Macphail It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name.
    Agnes Macphail
    Canadian politician (1890 - 1954)
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  • Angela Merkel It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put on the troubled seas of thought.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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