'A Naval History of Britain' which begins in the 7th century has to explain what it means by Britain. My meaning is… — Nicholas Rodger Copy Share Image
The cream-tiled walls were spattered here and there with old dried bloodstains, deep gouges that might have been clawmarks, and all kinds… — Simon R. Green Copy Share Image
Whatever success I have achieved, whatever positions of leadership I have held have depended less on Ivy League degrees or SAT scores… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
At heart, Sussman was a theoretician. In another age, he might have been a Talmudic scholar. He had cultivated a Socratic method,… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
Well. There was noting to be done for it. Things had happened as they did, time's arrow had yet to be reversed… — Steve Perry Copy Share Image
I might have been tempted to hit him square in the jaw had he not taken me by the shoulders and pinned… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There's always something in the game you wish you would have done different. That's why players improve, because they learn from what… — Gordie Howe Copy Share Image
When I first encountered the poems of Jon Woodward, I was stunned into the state that is my life's joy-I was in… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The Bible was written two thousand years ago. The world is a different place now. Stories that had meaning then are meaningless… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper? — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
Be what you are becoming without clinging to what you might have been; what you might yet be. — Luce Irigaray Copy Share Image
Governments having failed the people, the people are entirely justified in assuming for themselves and essential role in government. Where a government… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet. — Damian Lewis Copy Share Image
In really bad times, the hungriest would gather at his door at nightfall, vying for the chance to earn a few coins… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
It seems the height of antiquated hubris to claim that the universe carried on as it did for billions of years in… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas. — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
