Quotes with man-being

Quotes 2261 till 2280 of 6261.

  • Dorothy Parker I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Alexander Henry I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.
    Alexander Henry
    American painter
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  • Charles Dickens I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Rodney Dangerfield I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself.
    Rodney Dangerfield
    American comedian, actor (1921 - 2004)
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  • Alanis Morissette I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
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  • Ann Macbeth I see any production of any nature being good for the development of the whole industry.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Abbie Hoffman I see Judaism as a way of life. Sticking up for the underdog. Being an outsider. A critic of society. The kid on the corner who says the emperor has no clothes on. The Prophet.
    Source: Tikkun (July-August 1989)
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller I seek through comprehensive anticipatory design science and its reductions to physical practices to reform the environment instead of trying to reform humans, being intent thereby to accomplish prototyped capabilities of doing more with less...
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Samuel Beckett I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • James Joyce I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope. Colley Cibber was a silly little man without much elegance and Shelley was very Percy and very Bysshe.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Leo Tolstoy I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Oscar Wilde I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Arthur Golden I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Andy Warhol I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome.
    Original: Ich lehre euch den Übermenschen. Der Mensch ist Etwas das überwunden werden soll.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • George Eliot I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Henry van Dyke I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man's part in the real battle of life.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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