Quotes with man-being

Quotes 4441 till 4460 of 6261.

  • Robert Benchley The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • Kofi Annan The gap between the rich and the poor cannot keep growing without nothing being done about it.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • George Borrow The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.
    George Borrow
    English writer of novels and travel books (1803 - 1881)
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  • Salman Rushdie The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Russell Baker The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
    Russell Baker
    American journalist (1925 - )
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carl Rogers The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
    Carl Rogers
    American psychologist (1902 - 1987)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi The good man is the friend of all living things.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • John Dewey The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
    John Dewey
    American philosopher (1859 - 1952)
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  • Umberto Eco The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Busy Philipps The good thing about being pregnant is that I don't have to worry about sucking it in or dieting!
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Woody Allen The government is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under 5'7", it is impossible to get your congressman on the phone.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Benjamin Whichcote The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
    Benjamin Whichcote
    British philosopher (1609 - 1683)
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  • Thomas J. Watson The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
    Thomas J. Watson
    American Businessman, Founder of IBM (1874 - 1956)
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  • Arnold Bennett The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Freya Stark The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
    Freya Stark
    British travel story writer (1893 - 1993)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Stendhal The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.
    Stendhal
    French writer (ps. of Marie Henri Beyle) (1783 - 1842)
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