Would Be Quotes
9158 Would Be quotes by 5066 unique authors
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We were on a tour, and there were some chord formations that were tough for me to play when I was a kid...it had become…
— Jorma Kaukonen
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If men's minds were like dominoes, surely his would be the double blank.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.
— Mary Antin
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I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I…
— Matthew Macfadyen
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The essence of peace is to merge two opposites. Therefore your notions should not scare you if you see another, who absolutely opposes you, and…
— Nachman of Breslov
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To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill…
— Diogenes
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I discovered at 18 that singing and songwriting was my strength. I decided that it was closest to my heart and if I pursued it…
— Jason Mraz
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You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The future seems a little gloomy! Go to bed early, sleep well, eat moderately at breakfast; the future looks brighter. The world's outlook may not…
— Arthur Lynch
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The truth is that if Israel were to put down its arms there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs were to put down…
— Benjamin Netanyahu
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All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by…
— Samuel Johnson
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I'll never forget my 24th birthday when my tooth got punched out. And for a second I was like, it would be really hilarious if…
— Evan Rachel Wood
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I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60.…
— Gloria Stuart
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I didn't know every day I would be discussing the tone of my voice with my wife. I thought it was a marriage. Apparently, it's…
— Jerry Seinfeld
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If man had his way, the plan of redemption would be an endless and bloody conflict. In reality, salvation was bought not by Jesus fist,…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Perhaps the future of the world would be in better hands if we forgot about discovering something new and concentrated on recovering our past.
— Marlo Morgan
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Convenient though it would be if it were true, Mozilla [Netscape 1.0] is not big because it's full of useless crap. Mozilla is big because…
— Jamie Zawinski
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I think the biggest single improvement, or change, that a person could make in one's life would be to come to a deeper understanding, a…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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Years ago, I thought old age would be dreadful, because I should not be able to do things I would want to do. Now I…
— Nancy Astor
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There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. Even the bomb merely releases energy that nature has put there. Nuclear war would be…
— Camille Paglia
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The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
— John Dryden
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Now it would be foolish and impossible to try and prevent the manufacture of films containing Canadian snow scenes; but there is no vestige of…
— Unknown Author
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There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science,…
— Raymond Chandler
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