Quotes with might-have-been

Quotes 1921 till 1940 of 9541.

  • Bono God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore. They're all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp followers.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Bill Parcells God's been good to me, He really has. I don't know why he picked me out... Just think about it: I virtually coached in my hometown. From the middle of the Meadowlands field, it can't be but a couple of miles. I was lucky to do that.
    Bill Parcells
    American coach in the NFL (1941 - )
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  • Joy Baluch God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.
    Joy Baluch
    Australian politician (1932 - 2013)
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  • B. Kevin Turner Going forward, we will focus on building the very best Windows phones on a quicker timeline. We will also focus on the channels and markets that offer the best returns. This is a similar approach to the one we have taken with Surface, which has been very successful.
    B. Kevin Turner
    American businessman (1965 - )
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  • Bryn Terfel Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.
    Bryn Terfel
    Welsh bass-baritone opera singer (1965 - )
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  • Berthold Auerbach Good and stupid, is a common saying. I have found that only the judicious are really good. Only clever men know what is good for others; and at the first appearance of disadvantage to himself, the stupid man deserts.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • Francis Bacon Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Thomas J. Peters Good managers have a bias for action.
    Thomas J. Peters
    American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer (1942 - )
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  • Bill Kelly Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them.
    Blast from the Past
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  • Amy Vanderbilt Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
    Amy Vanderbilt
    American author, authority on etiquette (1908 - 1974)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Ben Folds Good morning, son
    In twenty years from now
    Maybe we'll both sit down and have a few beers
    And I can tell you 'bout today
    And how I picked you up and everything changed.
    Lyrics Still Fighting It, Rockin the Suburbs (2001)
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Barbara Demick Good reporting should have the same standard as in a courtroom - beyond a reasonable doubt.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Oscar Wilde Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak. They a
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde Good taste is the excuse I have given for leading such a bad life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Peter Carey Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.
    (2010)
    Peter Carey
    Australian writer (1943 - )
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  • Ben Parr Google is famous for making the tiniest changes to pixel locations based on the data it accrues through its tests. Google will always choose a spartan webpage that converts over a beautiful page that doesn't have the data to back it up.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz Google's founders have had a good eye for imagining what technologies will be significant in the near future. No one asked Google to develop self-driving cars, but it helped them with street views for Google Maps.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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