Quotes with might-have-been

Quotes 1841 till 1860 of 9541.

  • Jean-Paul Sartre Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • Assata Shakur Freedom! you askin me about freedom. I'll be honest with you. I know a whole more about what freedom isn't than about what it is, 'cause I've never been free. I can only share my vision with you of the future, about what freedom is.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Molière Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Beth Grant Frequently over the years, people have thought that they know me. Every character actor has this story, I'm sure. It goes like this: 'Um, do you play soccer?' 'Did you go to such and such church?' 'I knew you when you were with so and so... ' Then I go, 'Well, sorry...' and then they say, 'Wait a minute. Are you an actor?'
    Beth Grant
    American actress (1949 - )
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  • Albert Ellis Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Truman Capote Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.
    Truman Capote
    American writer (1924 - 1984)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Salman Rushdie Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Brunello Cucinelli From a design perspective, the U.S. has always been a great source of inspiration for me.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • Bill Frist From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Bernard Berenson From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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  • Nikola Tesla From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.
    Nikola Tesla
    Serbian-American inventor, engineer, physicist, and futurist (1856 - 1943)
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  • Mrs. Patrick Campbell From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word ''stammer.'' I can't say it myself.
    Mrs. Patrick Campbell
    English stage actress (1865 - 1940)
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  • Albert Camus From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Booker T. Washington From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
    Up From Slavery (1901) Ch. I: A Slave Among Slaves
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • John Henry Newman From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • Ban Ki-moon From the beginning of my time as Secretary-General, I have sought to advance a practical, action-oriented vision of the U.N. as the voice of the voiceless and the defender of the defenceless.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Charles Sumner From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been ;abandoned.
    Charles Sumner
    American politician and U.S. Senator (1811 - 1874)
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  • Bill Flores From the depths of the Pacific to the deserts of Iraq, more than a million American soldiers, Airmen, midshipmen, and Marines have laid down their lives for their friends, their families and our nation.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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