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Drama3 quotes
If you had it to do all over again, would you make the same choices? — Mike McDermott · 1998You know, Mr. Bernstein, if I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man. — Kane · 1941You’ve been given a great gift, George, a chance to see what the world would be like without you. — Clarence (It's a Wonderful Life) · 1946
Drama (film)3 quotes
If you had it to do all over again, would you make the same choices? — Mike McDermott · 1998You know, Mr. Bernstein, if I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man. — Kane · 1941You’ve been given a great gift, George, a chance to see what the world would be like without you. — Clarence (It's a Wonderful Life) · 1946
Perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now be taught in the schools of Oxford, and her pulpits might demonstrate to a circumcised people the sanctity and truth of the revelation of Mahomet. — Edward Gibbon · 1789If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt. — G.M. Trevelyan · 1942
Biography1 quote
The history of things that didn’t happen has never been written. — Henry Kissinger · 1972
Christmas1 quote
You’ve been given a great gift, George, a chance to see what the world would be like without you. — Clarence (It's a Wonderful Life) · 1946
You’ve been given a great gift, George, a chance to see what the world would be like without you. — Clarence (It's a Wonderful Life) · 1946
Crime1 quote
The reality is we’re still 11-year-old boys locked in a cellar imagining what our lives would have been if we’d escaped. — Sean Devine · 2003
The reality is we’re still 11-year-old boys locked in a cellar imagining what our lives would have been if we’d escaped. — Sean Devine · 2003
Film noir1 quote
The law has little to say on the subject of things left undone. — Coroner · 1958
Neo-noir1 quote
The reality is we’re still 11-year-old boys locked in a cellar imagining what our lives would have been if we’d escaped. — Sean Devine · 2003
The law has little to say on the subject of things left undone. — Coroner · 1958
The law has little to say on the subject of things left undone. — Coroner · 1958