Quotes with might-have-been

Quotes 6301 till 6320 of 9541.

  • Noel Coward That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.
    Noel Coward
    British writer (1899 - 1973)
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  • Beth Henley That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • William Shakespeare That what we have, we prize not to the worth
    whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost,
    why, than we rack the value.
    Much ado about nothing (1598)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Butch Trucks That whole Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame thing - at least half the people in there don't have a place in any kind of hall of fame anywhere, in my opinion.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Bob Edwards That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.
    Bob Edwards
    American broadcast journalist
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Lisa Alther That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.
    Lisa Alther
    American author and novelist (1944 - )
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  • Anderson Cooper That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.
    Anderson Cooper
    American television journalist (1967 - )
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  • L'Engle Madeleine That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
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  • Carolyn Chute That's the way we see life: your community is your survival. And if you live in a small community like this, even the people you hate you have as friends.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • Al Jarreau That's Tommy, this great producer who comes in contact with people and must have a mental library of personnel who are great for this and great for that, and he brought this whole group of musicians to the project that I'd never worked with before.
    Al Jarreau
    American singer and musician (1940 - 2017)
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  • Anne McCaffrey That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Carol Loomis The 1969 experience has been a rude awakening for many hedge-fund investors and has left some of them with strong reservations about the whole concept. For the first time in their relatively short history, the funds are not growing: in fact, some have suffered large withdrawals of capital, and a few have actually folded.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Barry Eichengreen The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.
    Barry Eichengreen
    American economist
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  • Andy Rooney The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Bruce Barton The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Seneca The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • W. H. Auden The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Alfred de Vigny The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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