Quotes with might-have-been

Quotes 7701 till 7720 of 9541.

  • Anne Rice To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Abraham Cowley To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let's treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay. Let's banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bob Graham Today 80 percent of all the oil that comes out of the Gulf is from 1,000 feet or more and today almost a third of it is more than 5,000 feet below the surface. What hasn't happened is the safety and the ability to respond to a negative event such as this blowout, has been far outrun by the technology of drilling itself. We need to close that gap.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Christopher Lasch Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
    Christopher Lasch
    American historian (1932 - 1994)
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  • Edmond de Goncourt Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Ralph Nader Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs.
    Ralph Nader
    American political activist, author and attorney (1934 - )
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  • Carlos Salinas Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.
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  • Barney Frank Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Arthur Levitt Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • Tom Hopkins Today, you have 100% of your life left.
    Tom Hopkins
    English professional footballer (1911 - )
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  • Bill Dedman Todd Palin's frequent presence in the governor's office led some in Juneau to call him the 'Shadow Governor.' But it had never been clear, at least to the public, what roles he played.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders Together, together, my friends, we have begun a political revolution to transform America, and that revolution, our revolution, continues!
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Bridget Moynahan Tom Selleck brings in the babes of all ages, I have to tell you. You can be 60, 80, or 16 and still love that man.
    Bridget Moynahan
    American actress and model (1971 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Tombstone - An ugly reminder of one who has been forgotten.
    A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • John Dryden Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • John Wayne Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
    John Wayne
    American actor and filmmaker (1907 - 1979)
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  • Beth Grant Tone is so important because you can have a great script just be ruined with the wrong director - if they shtick it up or something. With 'Little Miss Sunshine,' I was so concerned they weren't going to play the pageant official realistically because you don't have to wink to play those kinds of characters.
    Beth Grant
    American actress (1949 - )
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  • Barack Obama Tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope.
    Speech Chicago 04-11-2008
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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