Quotes with might-have-been

Quotes 6501 till 6520 of 9541.

  • Caroline Wozniacki The fact is I still have quite a few good years in front of me. I still improve.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Arundhati Roy The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting.
    Arundhati Roy
    Indian author (1961 - )
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  • Lord George Byron The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bono The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should give it up. It is not quite womanly... men don't like it.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ann Coulter The fact that a Republican is in the late Senator Kennedy's old seat probably must have him rolling in his grave, probably spilling his drink.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • William Mcgovern The fact that it had never been done before made it even more irresistible.
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  • George Bernard Shaw The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita The fact that we see some people doing what appears to be good civic-minded deeds may be because that is their true intention, and it may be that that is their best way to hold onto power in a setting where they have to depend on a lot of people.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Allen Ginsberg The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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  • Carol Moseley Braun The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Carl Bernstein The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. We now have a mainstream press whose news agenda is increasingly influenced by this netherworld.
    An A-Z of cultural terms, The Guardian (1992)
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Arthur Murray The families of Aboriginals who have died in custody in NSW will suffer again because of these white lies.
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  • C. Wright Mills The family provides the army and navy with the best men and boys that it possesses. And, as we have seen, education and science too are becoming means to the ends sought by the military.
    The Power Elite (1956)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Ring Lardner The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.
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  • Bobby Rahal The fans know that I have been giving it my all and that we had the good judgment to when to say when.
    Bobby Rahal
    American auto racing driver (1953 - )
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  • Beth Grant The fans of 'Speed' are very different from the fans of 'To Wong Foo,' which are different from 'Donnie Darko.' Look at the classics I've been in: 'No Country for Old Men'... 'Little Miss Sunshine'... 'Rain Man' was my first big studio movie! How lucky is that?
    Beth Grant
    American actress (1949 - )
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  • Confucius The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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