2,367 Quotes About Would-be

  • Author Alan Blinder
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    In the classic old business cycle, there would be a diminution in sales; it would take a little while for this information to reach corporate headquarters. And there would be an inventory pileup. And then - bam - businesses would react, sometimes violently, by cutting production.

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  • Author Alan Bradley
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    I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.

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  • Author Ambrose Bierce
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    MAGNITUDE, n. Size [that is] purely relative. If everything in the universe were increased 1,000 diameters nothing would be any larger than it was before, but if one thing remain unchanged all the others would be larger than they had been.

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  • Author Andy Burnham
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    The verification services that could be offered would be applied appropriately according to the business process that was involved,

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  • Author Ann Brashares
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    I knew her hair and her coloring and her shapes would be different next time, but the way she wore her body would keep on.

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  • Author Ann Brashares
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    Maybe they would look at each other and feel some odd yearning, but neither of them would know why. They would want to stop, but they would be embarrassed, and neither would know what to say. They would go their separate ways. Who knew? Maybe that happened every day to people who'd once loved each other.

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  • Author Anne Bradstreet
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    He that would be content with a mean condition must not cast his eye upon one that is in a far better estate than himself, but let him look upon him that is lower than he is, and, if he see that such a one bears poverty comfortably, it will help to quiet him.

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  • Author Anthony Bourdain
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    I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but the best restaurants. That would be a misery to me.

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