Quotes with might-have-been

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  • Leon Trotsky Life is not an easy matter. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Ogden Nash Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • David Gemmell Life is nothing unless death has been faced down.
    Legend (2011)
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Katharine Hepburn Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • Audre Lorde Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Grandma Moses Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
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  • Richard Nixon Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things. Life is one crisis after another.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Bruce Dickinson Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Louise Erdrich Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that. And living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on Earth.
    The Painted Drum (2005)
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Douglas Adams Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Matthew Arnold Light half-believers of our casual creeds, who never deeply felt, nor clearly will d, whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, whose vague resolves never have been fulfilled.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Billy Joel Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Billy Casper Like a lot of fellows around here, I have a furniture problem. My chest has fallen into my drawers.
    Billy Casper
    American professional golfer (1931 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
    Vivian Grey (1826) VIII, ch. 4
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Agnes Smedley Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Al Capp Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband.
    Al Capp
    American cartoonist and humorist (1909 - 1979)
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  • Queen Elizabeth II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
    Queen Elizabeth II
    Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand (1926 - 2022)
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  • Aldous Huxley Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bob McDonnell Like everybody, my views on many issues have changed as I have gotten older.
    Bob McDonnell
    American politician and lawyer (1954 - )
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