Quotes with leading-man

Quotes 1621 till 1640 of 4583.

  • William Butler Yeats I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Blaise Pascal I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • James Boswell I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.
    James Boswell
    Scottish biographer and diarist (1740 - 1795)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Dwight L. Moody I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • William Wycherley I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.
    William Wycherley
    British drama writer (1640 - 1715)
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  • Nelson Mandela I have learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. A brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
    Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Jean Paul I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Malcolm X I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong, than the one comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
    3 december 1964
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Bert Williams I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.
    Bert Williams
    American entertainer and comedian (1874 - 1922)
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  • Confucius I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • E. F. Schumacher I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful. To go for giantism is to go for self-destruction.
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  • Abel Hermant I have no idea what the mind of a lowlife scoundrel is like, but I know what the mind of an honest man is like: it is terrifying.
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  • Agnes Smedley I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Martin Luther I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.
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  • Mark Twain I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Thomas Carlyle I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Thomas Jefferson I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Charles M. Schwab I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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