Would Be Quotes
9158 Would Be quotes by 5066 unique authors
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In the lives of individuals and societies, language is a factor of greater importance than any other. For the study of language to remain solely…
— Ferdinand de Saussure
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Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Who is Mike Judge? Let me think. The only way I could possibly answer that question would be in a nonverbal fashion. I think I…
— Mike Judge
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If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction.
— Scott Turow
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Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this…
— Phillips Brooks
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Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties.…
— Mary Baker Eddy
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He loves the world so much. I agree it would be a shame to take that love away from meadow and tree, stream and sky,…
— Janet Morris
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I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that…
— Luigi Pirandello
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If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis,…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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I began to feel that I lived on a higher plane than the skeptics of the ground; one that was richer because of its very…
— Charles Lindbergh
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I realize now that people are not thinking about you and me or caring what is said about us. They are thinking about themselves-before breakfast,…
— Dale Carnegie
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I could speculate, but it would be just speculation and the kind of thing that you would get in with a science fiction story. And…
— Gene Wolfe
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I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years…
— Sojourner Truth
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It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable...Make up new names for them.…
— Robbie Robertson
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It may not be improper, however, to remark two consequences, evidently flowing from an extension of the federal power to every subject falling within the…
— James Madison
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It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable. ... Make up new names…
— Robbie Robertson
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If the president alone was vested with the power of appointing all officers, and was left to select a council for himself, he would be…
— Roger Sherman
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if we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual development in human…
— David Gelernter
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...it would be a mistake...to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway over the development of law and institutions during the Middle Ages... The…
— Woodrow Wilson
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The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that there shall always…
— Thomas Jefferson
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In fast-moving, progress-conscious America, the consumer expects to be dizzied by progress. If he could completely understand advertising jargon he would be badly disappointed. The…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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The first question that offers itself is, whether the general form and aspect of the government be strictly republican? It is evident that no other…
— James Madison
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I considered 4 of these bills [of the revised code of Virginia] as forming a system by which every fibre would be eradicated of antient…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if we lived on…
— George Monbiot
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