Quotes with might-have-been

Quotes 8401 till 8420 of 9541.

  • Bono What a city, what a night, what a crowd, what a bomb, what a mistake, what a wanker you have for a President.
    Acceptance speech at the MTV Europe Music Awards, referring to French nuclear testing in Pacific (1995)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • John Howe What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
    John Howe
    Canadian-French illustrator
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  • Terence What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
    Terence
    Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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  • Lord George Byron What a strange thing is the propagation of life! A bubble of seed which may be spilt in a whore's lap, or in the orgasm of a voluptuous dream, might (for aught we know) have formed a Caesar or a Bonaparte - there is nothing remarkable recorded of their sires, that I know of.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Dan Quayle What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
    Dan Quayle
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • André Gide What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Bliss Carman What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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  • Bill Dedman What are the odds that a nuclear emergency like the one at Fukushima Dai-ichi could happen in the central or eastern United States? They'd have to be astronomical, right?
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Nelson Mandela What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.
    Speech 18 may 2002
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Stephen King What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • Seneca What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy What do I have
    to help me, without spell or prayer,
    endure this hour, endless, heartless, anonymous,
    the death of love?
    Over, from Rapture (2004)
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Audre Lorde What do we want from each other
    after we have told our stories.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Ben Nelson What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.
    Ben Nelson
    American politician, businessman and lawyer (1941 - )
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  • B. B. King What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, 'You'd better learn this.' But I still think I've got a head on my shoulders, and it pleases me.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Jane Austen What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Joseph Campbell What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
    Joseph Campbell
    American mythologist (1904 - 1987)
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  • David Malouf What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.
    An Imaginary Life
    David Malouf
    Australian writer (1934 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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