Would Be Quotes - Page 32

• I believe in justice, maybe not in this life, but there has to be justice. And if there isn't a God, I think it would be very depressing. I'd prefer to believe there is.

  David Zucker

  Life, Depressing, Believe

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hindsight's a wonderful thing. If we all had it there would be no history to write about.

  Kate Atkinson

  Writing, Wonderful, Hindsight

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• When I walk into a market I may see a different cut of meat or an unusual vegetable and think, ‘I wonder how it would be if I took the recipe for that sauce I had in Provence and put the two together?’ So I go home and try it out. Sometimes my idea is a success and sometimes it is a flop, but that is how recipes are born. There really are not recipes, only millions of variations sparked by someone’s imagination and desire to be a little creative and different. American cooking is built, after all, on variations of old recipes from around the world.

  James Beard

  Home, Cutting, Thinking

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• I've long said that if I were about to be executed and were given a choice of my last meal, it would be bacon and eggs. There are few sights that appeal to me more than the streaks of lean and fat in a good side of bacon, or the lovely round of pinkish meat framed in delicate white fat that is Canadian bacon. Nothing is quite as intoxicating as the smell of bacon frying in the morning, save perhaps the smell of coffee brewing.

  James Beard

  Morning, Coffee, Food

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• I ate while I was taking chemo. The doctors didn't know. I really didn't get any nausea. I didn't have side effects. I would be drained for a day and a half.

  Eric Davis

  Doctors, Half, Sides

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If the world were not so full of people, and most of them did not have to work so hard, there would be more time for them to get out and lie on the grass, and there would be more grass for them to lie on.

  Don Marquis

  Lying, People, World

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• If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud of the path that the thirteen colonies, now fifty strong states, have taken since then.

  John Linder

  Strong, War, Father

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• The white men despise the Indians, and drive them from their homes. But the Indians are not deceitful. The white men speak bad of the Indian, and look at him spitefully. But the Indian does not tell lies; Indians do not steal. An Indian, who is as bad as the white men, could not live in our nation; he would be put to death, and eat up by the wolves.

  Black Hawk

  Lying, Home, Men

  Quoted in Samuel G. Drake, Biography and History of the Indians of North America, 11th ed. (1841)

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• It's weird, man. I've had a weird life, and I don't want to end up on the dole. I'm fed up with the plumbing. And I think it would be good to be a little pop star again.

  Brian Harvey

  Stars, Men, Thinking

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• An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden, provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.

  Robert Hughes

  Garden, Past, Museums

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• I can’t imagine what it would be like to have sex with a man. To be so intimate with another person. Not to hide anything. I don’t know if I could do that. It would have to be a boy anyway, not a grown man, someone as scared as me.

  Rachel Klein

  Sex, Boys, Men

  Rachel Klein (2012). “The Moth Diaries”, Faber & Faber

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• On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.

  Wade Davis

  Culture, Paper, Individual

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• Today my passion is still black and white. Today if I have an array of cameras in front of me the one I would reach for that I would feel most comfortable with would be a 4 X 5 View camera. I was once working in a sort of soft light situation.

  John Sexton

  Passion, Black And White, Artist

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• I would define liberty to be a power to do as we would be done by. The definition of liberty to be the power of doing whatever the law permits, meaning the civil laws, does not seem satisfactory.

  John Adams

  Law, Liberty, Doe

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• For Berkeley (normal) vision is a language whereby God tells us about the tangible world. But prior to having experience of the tangible world, the visual language would be as meaningless as an utterly alien language. It would convey no meaning to the sighted mind.

  David Berman

  Sight, Mind, Vision

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• Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Cells, Space, Flying

  "Inner Space". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• Everyone's got to be for a child to have a home and love. I mean I don't know anyone who would be against that.

  Dave Thomas

  Children, Home, Mean

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• There were moments when I felt seriously unhinged; when I was convinced that I would never, ever recover from what had happened, when it was absolutely clear to me that life from this point on would be constant agony.

  Douglas Kennedy

  Agony, Moments, Clear

  Douglas Kennedy (2009). “Leaving the World”, p.355, Random House

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• It should be possible to exist with only a short shelf of books, to read and give away. After all - we may not open a book, once read, for ten years or more. But the act of reading has made it part of us - to relinquish it would be to lose an extension of our being.

  Pam Brown

  Book, Reading, Years

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• If it's hard, do it hard! Nobody said it would be easy.

  Les Brown

  Easy, Said, Hard

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• If an angel should be winged from Heaven, on an errand of mercy to our country, the first accents that would glow on his lips would be, Beware! Be cautious! You have everything to lose; nothing to gain. We live under the only government that ever existed which was framed by the unrestrained and deliberate consultations of the people. Miracles do not cluster. That which has happened but once in six thousand years cannot be expected to happen often. Such a government, once gone, might leave a void, to be filled, for ages, with revolution and tumult, riot and despotism.

  Daniel Webster

  Country, Angel, Years

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• The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history, law, and tradition.

  John Adams

  Kings, Law, Rights

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• But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.

  Lord Byron

  Marriage, Knowing, Unhappy

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.333, Routledge

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• It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong.

  John Lubbock

  Happiness, People, Add

  John Lubbock (1913). “The Pleasures of the Life”

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• It would be an absurdity for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of the law, against their own opinion, judgment, and conscience.

  John Adams

  Views, Law, Judging

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