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If this was not so, then we would not have been ready.


Horace Engdahl

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Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine.
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NOT SURE If we knew what we are worth of, then we would not have been backbiting each other.
ANUJ SOMANY We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not happen
DAN QUAYLE We would not have been put in this position if it had not been for the actions of Charles Sawyer.
BOB MARSHALL There was England. And then there was the United States. If the pacifist betrayers of the West had n...
DAVID HOROWITZ Now we have one chance in some case, as in this body but in other body we will have + one because we...
DEYTH BANGER I have not done enough for effect." Horace Greeley
HAROLD HOLZER We're not nervous. We're excited. We would rather be playing for first, but we still have a chance f...
AHMET GUEYE If it was Virginia Tech, man, we would be so hyped for that game we would sure enough be ready. It's...
JASON MURPHY If this was regular negotiations, the committee would have turned this down. We would have said 'No,...
BOBBY PACE If this was regular negotiations, the committee would have turned this down. We would have said 'No,...
BOBBY DE PACE If you're not ready to go in and fight, we won't let you in. There's been others who thought they we...
CARL RAGASA "Not to admire, is all the art I know (Plain truth, dear Murray, needs few flowers of speech) ...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be cons...
PABLO PICASSO We would have been skeptical if we had not seen it.
LINDA EPPLEY This is outright slaughter. If he was facing a firing squad, he would not have been shot 41 times.
AL SHARPTON If we did not know then we would not die.
SORIN CERIN So I was surprised at the notion that I might have brought anthrax to my home, and would have been e...
STEVEN HATFILL These animals have been our heritage for centuries. If they once existed in the west and then became...
EDWARD INDAKWA It was close throughout, we outscored them in the third and then steadily pulled away. It might not ...
EVANS BOUCHARD If it was Virginia Tech, man, we would be so hyped for that game we would sure enough be ready.
JASON MURPHY Even if we had not been able to lay this extra thick, ready to play turf, the games scheduled this w...
KYLE PATTERSON This was not discussed verbally. We should have been told if we were transferring funds between acco...
ALVA MARTIN We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would...
FRANZ KAFKA Maybe the game would not have been so close if we would have held onto that interception. This type ...
KELLY GLASS That's been the reason why for 20 years, this issue has not been resolved. If this was an easy issue...
JULIE REGAN We have to use him in the post more, ... If we did it one or two times a game last season, we have t...
AVERY JOHNSON I knew this is really challenging for him not playing, but if we ever needed him there was never a d...
ALAIN VIGNEAULT My daughter's case was a plea bargain. If we had been forced to trial I'm not sure what the outcome ...
RON BOOK If we had not done that, there's no doubt we would have been slaughtered.
HANK THOMAS If it was not for Rajiv Gandhi, urbanization in India would have been history.
KUSHAL PAL SINGH There is little doubt this same individual would not have been pulled over if his car was displaying...
MASON TVERT Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
SAMUEL RICHARDSON There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to g...
EMINEM Hmmm,' the King said, making a face. 'I'm not sure this is what we bargained for, boy. We expected t...
DANIELLE L. JENSEN It's so easy to expect for an end when we finally feel tired or bored. That would not be necessarily...
TOBA BETA I think he is unassailable from a literary point of view, ... On the other hand, there may be some p...
HORACE ENGDAHL I think it is safe to say that 'Soul Mountain' is one of the most remarkable creations of modern lit...
HORACE ENGDAHL ranks higher and is remembered longer.
HORACE ENGDAHL Candidates must figure on the short-list at least two years running to win,
HORACE ENGDAHL We have a very strict discipline now. No documents leave the building and the (Academy) members are ...
HORACE ENGDAHL This very possibly has something to do with the fact that this week the Academy will announce this y...
HORACE ENGDAHL Since then his chair has been vacant, with the exception of three or four casual visits, mostly on h...
HORACE ENGDAHL This very possibly has something to do with the fact that this week the academy will announce this y...
HORACE ENGDAHL That's not something we took into consideration. But it's not something that is held against him eit...
HORACE ENGDAHL If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juve...
VOLTAIRE If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juve...
VOLTAIRE We've never been out this early. We're still doing the same stuff we would indoors, the arms are jus...
FRANK PECORA No. 1, the crime would not have occurred. And the brutality would not have been (as bad) as it was. ...
MARK LENO A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.
BOBBY BOWDEN If it weren't for her, we would not have this grant.
JOANNA PADGETT If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?
CHARLES DE LINT Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO This is the silver lining in the dark cloud of Katrina. We would not have been able to start with an...
SAJAN GEORGE I would have been disappointed if they had not raised rates by about 3 percent. This is what we all ...
DOUG ROCKEL The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
SAMUEL BUTLER Let's face it, there was a lot of criticism when he started in New York. I've been saying, if that w...
DON COOPER President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had ...
KEVIN COSTNER And had it not been that We had already established you, you would certainly have been near to incli...
QURAN I look at the N.B.A. as a job, a great job to have, so I think, for me, I would have loved the oppor...
BEN SIMMONS Mentally, I've been getting ready for this. So I'm not surprised I'm here. I'm glad it's this early ...
JEFF GOVE It's going to happen again. And we're not ready for it, as you can see by Katrina. ... We're going t...
MICHAEL PRICE If he's ready, then we'd look at it. But we're not going to go in there and jam it down his throat.
MIKE EAVES We're not going to be ready until January,
BILL FORD If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity...
ANNE DUDLEY BRADSTREET If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity...
ANNE BRADSTREET If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity...
ANNE BRADSTREET I'm ready for it. The easy thing would have been to stay with the Braves, it was so close to home. B...
KYLE FARNSWORTH There is not one student in this room that would not have stayed. We could not believe our governmen...
GABRIEL PENDAS The youth were ready for anything and everything. If they had been told unequivocally to refuse, the...
AVIDAN WEITZMAN I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren&#...
WALTER MOSLEY Our facility is not suitable for a person in this gentleman's condition. ... If we had known he was ...
CHRIS KEARNEY Nationalism in Norway was very strong in 1905, that we must be free of Sweden. But I must say, I'...
OLAV THON If this had been a real situation, we would not have experienced any loss of students and that's wha...
BRIGGS GAMBLIN If there was no Cosmic Ordering then it would have been necessary to invent it.
STEPHEN RICHARDS To my mind, what we ought to have maintained from the beginning was the strictest neutrality. If we ...
GEORGE WILLIAM NORRIS This was a much bigger story for the Latino media. If the mainstream media had been paying better at...
FELIX GUTIERREZ For it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I was the governor of New Jersey, the George Washington Bridge would not have been shut.
DONALD TRUMP Lull me with your lullabies.. Serenade me with your souls. Make me dance with symphonies.. Do jazz w...
KIM JOHN A. AGUIRRE If you're asking me if we would have taken that deal, then no, we would not have taken that deal. Bu...
LES WRIGHT If we would not have subdued him when we did, the incident could have been much worse, or even fatal...
MARK ADAMS Had it not been for jazz our hotels would not have done so well.
HORACE PETERKIN There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not h...
EMINEM If we all realized that we have limited time on Earth then we would not spend our time hating each o...
AVIJEET DAS We did what was right ... If this person had been innocent, he would have walked out of there.
GREG BERATLIS We just needed win - period. We're just struggling so badly right now. Then to lose this would have ...
ALLEN IVERSON This is a tough loss, but it's definitely not the end of our season. We have to get back to playing ...
OMAR WILLIAMS We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then ...
MARK TWAIN We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead / and not then u...
MARK TWAIN If our father would not have been a strict disciplinarian, our house would have been Lord of the Fli...
ANDREW MARTIN It would have been much easier to get to our destiny, if road was not paved with ego.
WOHI PURANA Honestly, if you had asked me if this was possible at the start of the season, I would have said yes...
KIRK SNYDER Any rational seller would have to feel the amount they got off market was at or more than they could...
ANNE FOLEY I didn't know if we'd be ready for this one or not. The last few games we've been driving the ball b...
MARC BEACH If the fish had not opened its mouth, it would not have been caught.
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HORACE ENGDAHL ranks higher and is remembered longer.
HORACE ENGDAHL Candidates must figure on the short-list at least two years running to win,
HORACE ENGDAHL We have a very strict discipline now. No documents leave the building and the (Academy) members are ...
HORACE ENGDAHL This very possibly has something to do with the fact that this week the Academy will announce this y...
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SYLVIA ENGDAHL We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can ret...
HORACE Don't think, just do.
HORACE Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
HORACE Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
HORACE The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
HORACE Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.
HORACE Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.
HORACE The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Wh...
HORACE A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
HORACE Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make m...
HORACE One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by differ...
HORACE You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and do...
HORACE Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as ga...
HORACE He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
HORACE Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
HORACE A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with th...
HORACE Labor diligently to increase your property.
HORACE Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
(They change their sky, not their soul, who...
HORACE He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
HORACE He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
HORACE Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
Lat., Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow. HORACE Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.
HORACE I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.
HORACE One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all.
HORACE Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.
HORACE You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers...
HORACE The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
HORACE One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instr...
HORACE Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
HORACE Tear thyself from delay.
HORACE Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.
HORACE How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot of which he has chosen or which c...
HORACE Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.
HORACE While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
HORACE Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.
HORACE Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.
HORACE Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is in flames.
HORACE It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
HORACE You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
HORACE What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
HORACE Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless...
HORACE I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
HORACE It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
HORACE Patience makes lighter
What sorrow may not heal.
HORACE Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
HORACE Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting nigh...
HORACE You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
HORACE Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
HORACE The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted ...
HORACE Anger is a brief lunacy.
HORACE Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
HORACE Anger is short madness
HORACE My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.
HORACE Whatever advice you give, be short.
HORACE A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.
HORACE As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.
HORACE Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
HORACE A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fort...
HORACE Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
HORACE Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.
HORACE The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.
HORACE We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
HORACE Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.
HORACE Every old poem is sacred.
HORACE Poets wish to profit or to please.
HORACE No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
HORACE The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
HORACE No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
HORACE A picture is a poem without words.
HORACE Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
HORACE I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
HORACE How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
HORACE When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.
HORACE He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving ot...
HORACE Life is largely a matter of expectation.
HORACE Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
HORACE To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fe...
HORACE A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
HORACE Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person
HORACE He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
HORACE Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they wi...
HORACE The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the light...
HORACE He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.
HORACE We are free to yield to truth.
HORACE Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity ...
HORACE Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
HORACE Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
HORACE If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up,...
HORACE Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
HORACE When a man is just and firm in his purpose,
The citizens burning to approve a wrong
Or the fro...
HORACE Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
HORACE A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE There is nothing assured to mortals.
HORACE This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are a...
HORACE If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine.
HORACE I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelt...
HORACE What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.
HORACE If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
HORACE He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.
HORACE I teach that all men are mad.
HORACE He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
HORACE In the word of no master am I bound to believe.
HORACE He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
HORACE Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.
HORACE The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.
HORACE Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to t...
HORACE Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.
HORACE I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
HORACE The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poe...
HORACE If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.
HORACE Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.
HORACE He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
HORACE In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns up...
HORACE Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
HORACE Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction a...
HORACE The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour.
HORACE Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
HORACE If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
HORACE A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain d...
HORACE Vitanda est improba Siren Desidia. (That shameful Siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.)
HORACE In times of stress, be bold and valiant.
HORACE Buy the rumor and sell the fact
HORACE No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slo...
HORACE The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at
HORACE It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and...
HORACE Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of w...
HORACE He who is greedy is always in want.
HORACE No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
HORACE In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
HORACE The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour.
HORACE When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.
HORACE Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
HORACE Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.
HORACE It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the ...
HORACE Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, be...
HORACE It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE The pen is the tongue of the mind.
HORACE Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dor...
HORACE Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, p...
HORACE Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
HORACE Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he ...
HORACE The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous ...
HORACE Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
HORACE Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
HORACE Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man.
HORACE Whatever advice you give, be brief.
HORACE Those that are little, little things suit.
HORACE They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.
HORACE Make a good use of the present.
HORACE To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
HORACE Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come a...
HORACE The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE The covetous man is ever in want.
HORACE Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
HORACE Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.
HORACE It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
HORACE He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.
HORACE He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!
HORACE With silence favor me.
(Favete Linguis)
HORACE There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right canno...
HORACE The appearance of right oft leads us wrong.
HORACE Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
HORACE Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment.
HORACE If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.
HORACE I will not add another word.
HORACE He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out be...
HORACE Faults are soon copied.
HORACE In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
HORACE In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.
HORACE A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doi...
HORACE The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
HORACE It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
HORACE Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
HORACE A word once uttered can never be recalled.
HORACE Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.
HORACE There is measure in all things.
HORACE With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
HORACE Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
[Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.]
HORACE Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.
HORACE You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented m...
HORACE Testy, querulous and given to praising the way things were when he was a boy.
HORACE