Quotes with man-being

Quotes 1981 till 2000 of 6261.

  • Anais Nin How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Quentin Crisp However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Raymond Chandler However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Adam Clarke However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.
    Source: Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Christopher Leach Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.
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  • Jane Austen Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Adam Smith Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Branford Marsalis Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Victor Borge Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
    Victor Borge
    Danish-American comedian, conductor, and pianist (1909 - 2000)
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  • Leo Tolstoy Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Stokely Carmichael I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that. Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me.
    Stokely Carmichael
    American activist (1941 - 1998)
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  • Alice Hoffman I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
    Alice Hoffman
     
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  • Bill Murray I always like to say to people who want to be rich and famous, try being rich first. See if that doesn't cover most of it.
    Source: I know how to be sour, The Guardian, December 2003
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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