Quotes with might-have-been

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  • Terence Nothing is said which has not been said before.
    Terence
    Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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  • David Gemmell Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned.
    Troy: Shield Of Thunder (1990) 193
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Lord George Byron Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bruce Barton Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • C. S. Lewis Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Carl Rowan Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
    Carl Rowan
    American government official, journalist and author (1925 - 2000)
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  • S. I. Hayakawa Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
    S. I. Hayakawa
    Canada-American Senator (1902 - 1992)
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  • Joan Didion Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.
    (2006)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Anita Diamant November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell books in advance of the holidays.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Bess Truman Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of them as I am at having to meet the live nuts I have to see every day.
    Bess Truman
    American first lady (1885 - 1982)
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  • Buzz Osborne Now I have never met a group of people who hate music more than professional roadies, and it is clearly obvious that 99.9 percent of them know nothing at all about music. Nothing. I find this to be quite strange, really. It's like someone who works in a bakery knowing nothing about baking.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Orson Welles Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Arthur Godfrey Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • Harriet Tubman Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
    Harriet Tubman
    American abolitionist and humanitarian (1822 - 1913)
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  • Abbott Eliot Kittredge Now it is the blood of Jesus which saves, and it is the same blood which cleanses and sanctifies; and as we had to come lo Jesus to be plunged into the fountain, so we have to abide in Jesus by fellowship, to grow up into Christlikeness.
    Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
    Abbott Eliot Kittredge
    American minister (1834 - 1912)
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  • Blair Underwood Now it's a fully realized production but for the fact that we're holding our scripts in our hand and some of us used them, and some of us didn't and you have to by union rules hold the script. You don't have to use them but you gotta hold them.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Bill Engvall Now people live into their 90s and beyond. As long as I have quality of life, I'm good.
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Ben Folds Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bayard Taylor Now the frosty stars are gone: I have watched them one by one, Fading on the shores of Dawn. Round and full the glorious sun Walks with level step the spray, Through his vestibule of Day.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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