Would Be Quotes
9158 Would Be quotes by 5066 unique authors
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That the enthusiasm which characterizes youth should lift its parricide hands against freedom and science would be such a monstrous phenomenon as I cannot place…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.
— Harper Lee
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Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wanted to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: when you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.
— Elmore Leonard
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One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would…
— Bill Nighy
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Just think of something that would be "wonderful" if it were only "possible". Then set out to make it possible.
— Armand Hammer
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I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer's block, oh, I have to…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active…
— Walter Bagehot
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If you gave me several million years, there would be nothing that did not grow in beauty if it were surrounded by water.
— Unknown Author
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If we could ever competitively, at a cheap rate, get fresh water from saltwater, ..(this) would be in the long-range interests of humanity which could…
— John F. Kennedy
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I'm confused tell me where we go wrong? I was sure that I would be with you for so long.
— Drake
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What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In this speedy world of ours when facts are multiplying rapidly and giant rearrangements are happening all around us, it seems dangerous to be made…
— Corita Kent
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If a rabbit defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent animal would be a rabbit, followed by the animal most willing to…
— Robert Breault
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I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.
— Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
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Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
— Marian Anderson
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There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf…
— Billie Jean King
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Truth is the beginning of every good thing, both in heaven and on earth; and he who would be blessed and happy should be from…
— Plato
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