#hadn

We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA. ↗

— James Lovelock

#chance #earth #exploration #go #got

If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#british #burden #colonists #exist #financial

If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#god #had #hadn #rested #sunday

So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy. ↗

— Richard Marx

#best #bunch #case #enemy #getting

When I voted against the cap-and-trade bill, the phone rang and it was the chief of staff of the president of the United States of America, Rahm Emanuel, and he started swearing at me in terms and words that I hadn't heard since that crossing the line ceremony on the USS New Jersey in 1983. ↗

— Eric Massa

#america #bill #cap-and-trade #ceremony #chief

And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before, and I was so deeply impressed I said I have to be a conductor. ↗

— Kurt Masur

#before #concert #conductor #deeply #first

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#back #between #bit #characters #counted

I'd like to think I could have and should have won more, but that's not the point. And I was at the point where I was playing great tennis in the mid 80s - the type of tennis people hadn't seen before - and I was very proud of that. ↗

— John McEnroe

#could #great #hadn #i #like

Everything I've done in my career is a result of growing up in rural Oklahoma, because if I hadn't had the training from Mama and Daddy to work hard, to do what I'm told, to take directions, to mind and to do a good job at anything I set out to do, then I wouldn't be where I am today. ↗

— Reba McEntire

#anything #because #career #daddy #directions

I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#hadn #i #seen