Quotes with would-be

Quotes 2121 till 2140 of 2262.

  • Benjamin Disraeli When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Henry Fielding When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Campbell Brown When you have Candidate A saying the sky is blue, and Candidate B saying it's a cloudy day, I look outside and I see, well, it's a cloudy day. I should be able to tell my viewers, 'Candidate A is wrong, Candidate B is right,' and not have to say, 'Well, you decide.' Then it would be like I'm an idiot.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Bob Latta When you look at the number of nuclear power plants in China and India, we can't afford not to pursue similar alternative energy sources. If we do not, it would do immense harm to the manufacturing industry in the Midwest.
    Bob Latta
    American politician (1956 - )
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  • Carrie-Anne Moss When you play a doctor, you have to look like you can do it but you don't actually go and do it. It's not like you learn how to cut open somebody and go do surgery. You have to think of a human being and not play the idea of what that would look like.
    Carrie-Anne Moss
    Canadian actress (1967 - )
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  • Earl Nightingale Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • James A. Beard Where would we be without salt?
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  • Jonathan Swift Wherever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bob Taft Whether we knew many who died on September 11 or personally knew none, we all lost something on that day. Innocence. Security. A trust that our homeland would always be safe.
    Bob Taft
    American politician and attorney (1942 - )
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  • H. Ross Perot Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry?
    H. Ross Perot
    American businessman & politician, founder EDS (1930 - 2019)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Arthur Laffer Which would you rather have, capital lined up on your borders, trying to get into your country or trying to get out of your country? We are the capital magnet of this planet and we are the savior for not only people, for not only freedom, but also for capital.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Bill Kristol While a defeat for Obamacare in the Court would be nice, the defeat of President Obama at the polls on November 6 is crucial. If electoral victory is achieved, Obamacare can and will be repealed - and more judges of a constitutionalist persuasion will be appointed by the next president.
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • Alcee Hastings While few religious leaders and scholars would doubt the commonalities that exist among the various religious groups, the followers of these religions unfortunately struggle in their effort to peacefully coexist.
    Alcee Hastings
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler While Fidel Castro used to deliver his marathon seven-hour speeches in Havana, Cubans used to joke that if Spanish lacked a future tense, their leader would be speechless. He was only fluent in broken promises, they lamented.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Benigno Aquino III While I accept that there are certain things about my private life that will always be of interest to the public, it would be better if you give the same amount of attention to issues that matter as well.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Ann Beattie While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Sir Alfred Jules Ayer While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.
    Sir Alfred Jules Ayer
    English philosopher (1910 - 1989)
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