Quotes with would-be

Quotes 1661 till 1680 of 2262.

  • Bernard L. Schwartz The 2008 Democratic presidential candidates would be wise to note that unwarranted negativism is dangerous and badly underestimates the strengths of the American people to adapt to and prosper with change.
    Bernard L. Schwartz
    American businessman (1925 - )
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  • Beth Broderick The average actor might only be able to book six to eight guest star jobs a year - that would be high. So when you start doing the math, you can't live on that in Los Angeles.
    Beth Broderick
    American actress (1959 - )
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  • Bob Barr The average American returning from a trip abroad likely - and understandably - assumes the contents of his or her electronic device does not come close to meeting the threshold of 'criminal' activity, such as would give a government agent the right to seize and peruse their iPad just because they are returning from a vacation.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Robert Graves The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
    Robert Graves
    English poet, historical novelist, critic and classicist (1895 - 1985)
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  • Samuel Smiles The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Ronald Reagan The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Karl Barth The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
    Karl Barth
    Swiss theologian (1886 - 1968)
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  • James Baldwin The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Bobby Bowden The Bible is big in my teaching. It's a wonder the ACLU didn't get after me pretty good. I really kept thinking they would. I took my boys to church. I took my football team to church. I only did it two times a year. Before I signed a kid, I'd write the parents and I'd tell that parent we were gong to take your son to church twice.
    Bobby Bowden
    American football coach (1929 - )
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  • Billy Graham The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn't, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Bridgit Mendler The biggest klutz would be myself, so if I could offer help to myself I would. I'm the most off my game most often.
    Bridgit Mendler
    American actress, singer, and songwriter (1992 - )
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  • Bob Mould The blues is something separate from what I do. They connect at certain spots, but blues is different. I wouldn't put it in with what my career has been. That would be a whole separate wing.
    Bob Mould
    American musician (1960 - )
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  • B. B. King The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Carolyn Wells The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy; The books that people talk about we never can recall; And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.
    Carolyn Wells
    American writer and poet (1862 - 1942)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Benjamin Watson The captain thing was really an honor, and it was really flattering for me. It was really something that I didn't expect, and I would say that was the highlight of my career so far, being elected captain by my peers.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Vance Havner The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.
    Vance Havner
    American writer
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  • Benjamin Tucker The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate and private relations of his life is not borne out by the history of governments.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Barry Eichengreen The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.
    Barry Eichengreen
    American economist
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  • Paul De Man The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.
    Paul De Man
    In België geboren American literair criticus (1919 - 1983)
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