Quotes with would-be

Quotes 1301 till 1320 of 2262.

  • Charlie Chaplin Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
    Charlie Chaplin
    British actor, movie maker (1889 - 1977)
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  • Doug Larson Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
    Doug Larson
    American columnist and editor (1926 - 2017)
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  • Tom Stoppard Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.
    Tom Stoppard
    Czech Playwright (1937 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Oscar Wilde Life would be dull without them.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Mark Twain Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Stephen Hawking Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
    Source: The New York Times (12 december 2004)
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Agnes Smedley Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Bill Gates Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so irritating.
    Source: "Why I Hate Spam" by Bill Gates, June 23 2003, www.microsoft.com/presspass/ofnote/06-23wsjspam.mspx
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Bob Kerrey Like Jonah, the whale had swallowed me; unlike him, I believed I would spend eternity inside the belly of the beast.
    Bob Kerrey
    American politician (1943 - )
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  • Alan Colmes Little did I know that the last words I would say on WNBC would be the last ones anyone would say.
    Alan Colmes
     
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  • Antonia Fraser Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Bjork Living in a capital in Europe but still surrounded by mountains and ocean, my relationship to music was strongest walking to school and back. I would sing to myself and very quickly started mapping out my melodies to landscapes - at the time I just thought it was very matter of fact, a common thing to do.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Arthur Hailey Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and anguish.
    Arthur Hailey
    British-Canadian novelist (1920 - 2004)
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  • Bill Parcells Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different.
    Bill Parcells
    American coach in the NFL (1941 - )
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  • Thomas à Kempis Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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