Quotes with would-be

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  • Sir John Vanbrugh If women were humbler, men would be more honest.
    Sir John Vanbrugh
    English architect and dramatist (1664 - 1726)
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  • Elmore Leonard If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.
    Elmore Leonard
    American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter (1925 - 2013)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Carmen Sylva If you could throw as an alms to those who would use it well the time that you fritter away, how many beggars would become rich!
    Carmen Sylva
    Ps. van Elisabeth zu Wied, Queen of Romania (1843 - 1916)
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  • Alan Cohen If you gave your inner genius as much credence as your inner critic, you would be light years ahead of where you now stand.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Austan Goolsbee If you had asked people in 1929, 'Here is what is about to happen. How much would you pay to avoid the Great Depression from occurring?' The answer is they would have paid a lot. They would have borrowed money if it could be used to prevent the Great Depression.
    Austan Goolsbee
    American economist (1969 - )
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  • Bill Simmons If you had told me in 1997 that even 5 people would be waiting online for me to sign my new book in 2009, I would have jumped around like Joe Carter in the 1993 World Series. I love it. I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't like it. The only thing I worry about is carpal tunnel syndrome - my last tour almost caused it.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • A. N. Wilson If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Bob Woodward If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Aeschylus If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Ben Goldacre If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would cancel all new trials, for just one year, and I would spend the money exclusively on making sure that we make the best possible use of the clinical evidence that we already have.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Peace Pilgrim If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Hesiod If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.
    Hesiod
    Greek poet
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  • Bruce Willis If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who would have guns would be the bad guys. Even a pacifist would get violent if someone were trying to kill him or her. You would fight for your life, whatever your beliefs.
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Bill McKibben If you told Exxon or Lukoil that, in order to avoid wrecking the climate, they couldn't pump out their reserves, the value of their companies would plummet.
    Bill McKibben
    American environmentalist, author, and journalist (1960 - )
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  • Archibald Alexander If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men.
    Archibald Alexander
    American Presbyterian theologian and professor (1772 - 1851)
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  • Billy Campbell If you were to ask my agent, they would confirm this: I'm drawn to locations. What really drew me to 'The 4400,' aside from the fact that it was sci-fi, was the fact that it was shot in the city of my dreams: Vancouver.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • René Descartes If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
    René Descartes
    French philosopher, scientist (1596 - 1650)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Robert Southey If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
    Robert Southey
    British writer (1774 - 1843)
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