Quotes with might-have-been

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  • Sigmund Freud It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Barbara Castle It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Barbara McClintock It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.
    Barbara McClintock
    American scientist and cytogeneticist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Bertie Carvel It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor I'm a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.
    Bertie Carvel
    English stage and screen actor (1977 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Andrew Lloyd Webber It must have been an extraordinary time. I guess the worrying thing about musical theatre to me, is if you look at the London season this year, mine is actually the only one to have come in.
    Andrew Lloyd Webber
    English composer and impresario (1948 - )
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  • Alice Walker It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Adrian Edmondson It only works because we still amuse each other. After we have been working with other people, it is so refreshing to laugh unreservedly when we are back together again.
    Adrian Edmondson
    British actor (1957 - )
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  • Margaret Thatcher It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Carrie Fisher It really annoys me that I'm vain, but unfortunately, I haven't been able to discard that tendency.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Babe Didrikson Zaharias It s not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it.
    Babe Didrikson Zaharias
    American athlete (1911 - 1956)
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  • George Bernard Shaw It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Eugenie Clark It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.
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  • T. S. Eliot It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry. That is a life.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Brooks Atkinson It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Alfred Loisy It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.
    Alfred Loisy
    French theologian (1857 - 1940)
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  • Al Sharpton It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Louis de Bernieres It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • Flannery O'Connor It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
    Flannery O'Connor
    American writer and essayist (1925 - 1964)
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  • Ben Gibbard It seems that you live in someone else's dream
    In a hand-me-down wedding dress
    With the things that could have been are repressed
    But you said your vows and you closed the door
    On so many men who would have loved you more
    Narrow Stairs
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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