Quotes with might-have-been

Quotes 8121 till 8140 of 9541.

  • Louis de Bernieres We have roots that grow towards each other underground. And when all the pretty blossom has fallen from our branches we find that we are one tree and not two.
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
    - +
     0
  • William Shakespeare We have seen better days.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
    - +
     0
  • Bob Filner We have seen that, in another unfunded mandate, the so-called No Child Left Behind Act, which created tougher standards, and we all support that, but Congress did not provide the money to attract and hire the best teachers.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
    - +
     0
  • Callum McDougall We have seen the damage already caused to the music industry and we have to continue to make the public and government bodies globally aware of the damage that will happen if DVD piracy is not brought under control.
    - +
     0
  • John Ruskin We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
    - +
     0
  • Abu Bakar Bashir We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?
    Abu Bakar Bashir
    Indonesian Muslim cleric (1938 - )
    - +
     0
  • Ronald Reagan We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
    - +
     0
  • Benjamin Jowett We have sought truth, and sometimes perhaps found it. But have we had any fun?
    Quoted by Geoffrey Madan
    Benjamin Jowett
    British theologian (1817 - 1893)
    - +
     0
  • Asa Gray We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
    - +
     0
  • David Wark Griffiths We have taken beauty and exchanged it for stilted voices.
    - +
     0
  • Bob Ainsworth We have tended in politics in this country to concentrate on the domestic, on the here and now - the 'what's in it for me'.
    Bob Ainsworth
    British Labour Party politician (1952 - )
    - +
     0
  • Blake Farenthold We have testimony saying, and I think common sense also dictates, that in a failed state like Syria, you don't have any government information, police reports to rely on to vet somebody. So there's no way to do a background check from somebody coming out of Syria. There's no way we can find out whether they're safe or not.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
    - +
     0
  • Mark Twain We have the best government that money can buy.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
    - +
     0
  • Barbara Boxer We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
    - +
     0
  • Kofi Annan We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.
    Twitter (2016)
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
    - +
     0
  • J. William Fulbright We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.
    J. William Fulbright
    American politician and U.S. Senator (1905 - 1995)
    - +
     0
  • John F. Kennedy We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
    - +
     0
  • Richard Dawkins We have the power to turn against our creators.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
    - +
     0
  • Ben Carson We have the purveyors of hatred who take every single incident between people of two races and try to make a race war out of it and drive wedges into people. And this does not need to be done.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bill Maris We have this powerful lever at Google Ventures, which is to invest $200 million a year. This is a huge lever. It's not all going into one place; it's going into lots of start ups and founders and entrepreneurs, all of which are levers to try and change the world in one way or another.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
    - +
     0
All might-have-been famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 407)