Quotes with might-have-been

Quotes 5941 till 5960 of 9541.

  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Betty Dodson Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That's the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.
    Betty Dodson
    American sex educator (1929 - )
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Evelyn Waugh Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Anne Sexton Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.
    Anne Sexton
    American poet (1928 - 1974)
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  • Bob Schaffer Salazar's record is one of weakness; he hasn't been a good attorney general.
    Bob Schaffer
    American politician (1962 - )
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  • Brett Hoebel Salt is one of the flavors that makes food taste good - salt, sugar and fat. So it's a natural thing for all chefs and cooks to add salt, because it enhances the flavor of the food. If you go out to eat, I guarantee you're going to be eating a lot of salted foods that you are going to have no idea.
    Brett Hoebel
    American personal trainer
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  • Georges Bataille Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Paul Klee Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the bogged-down vileness of average man as against the possible heights that humanity might attain.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Samuel Pepys Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
    Samuel Pepys
    English administrator of the navy and Member of Parliament (1633 - 1703)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Say not, ''I have found the truth,'' but rather, ''I have found a truth.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Johann Gottfried Von Herder Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.
    Johann Gottfried Von Herder
    German poet and theologian (1744 - 1803)
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  • Winston Churchill Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Arthur Bryant Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.
    Arthur Bryant
    English historian, columnist for The Illustrated London News and man (1899 - 1985)
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  • Bill Maris Say you have cancer - you have this broad thing we call cancer; we're going to irradiate you and pump this poisonous material into you and hope more of the bad stuff dies than the good. That is going to seem so medieval when we can fix it on a genetic level, and Foundation Medicine is the first step to diagnosing it on a genetic level.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Bruce Sterling Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Cormac McCarthy Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
    Al de mooie paarden (1992) 139
    Cormac McCarthy
    American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter (1933 - 2023)
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  • Ivan Illich School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.
    Ivan Illich
    Austrian-American theologist, writer (1926 - 2002)
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