Quotes with leading-man

Quotes 2521 till 2540 of 4583.

  • Alan Moore Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.
    Alan Moore
    English writer (1953 - )
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  • John Ruskin Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The muscles and tendons of its anatomy are, in the mountain, brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Walter Savage Landor Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Queen Elizabeth I Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.
    Queen Elizabeth I
    Queen of England and Ireland (1533 - 1603)
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  • Barry Hannah My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man.
    Barry Hannah
    American novelist (1942 - 2010)
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  • Beverly Sills My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.
    Beverly Sills
    American operatic soprano (1929 - 2007)
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  • Bill Goldberg My experience with video games is a far cry from 'WWE 2K17.' Did I ever aspire to be that character? Man, I just wanted to be a hero to kids. Whether it's a character in a video game, a movie or a TV series, it's an accolade that I'm greatly appreciative of.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Antonio Villaraigosa My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.
    Antonio Villaraigosa
    American politician (1953 - )
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  • Aaron Klug My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.
    Aaron Klug
    British biophysicist (1926 - 2018)
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • Alex Haley My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.
    Alex Haley
    American writer (1921 - 1992)
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  • George Bernard Shaw My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Aeschylus My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Beau Willimon My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole - I was an advance man.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Bertrand Piccard My life and the life of my family has to do with exploration, with adventure. My grandfather was the first man in the stratosphere, and my father was the first to touch the deepest point in the ocean... For me, adventure and exploration is something in the blood.
    Bertrand Piccard
    Swiss psychiatrist (1958 - )
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  • Glenda Jackson My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.
    Glenda Jackson
    British actress and politician (1936 - 2023)
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  • Alfred Jodl My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.
    Alfred Jodl
    German general and war criminal (1890 - 1946)
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