Quotes with man-being

Quotes 4701 till 4720 of 6261.

  • Barbara Corcoran The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Leo Tolstoy The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • André Maurois The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Sydney Justin Harris The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • Peter F. Drucker The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
    Peter F. Drucker
    American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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  • Candace Bushnell The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.
    Candace Bushnell
    American author and journalist (1958 - )
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  • Walter Bagehot The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Arthur Koestler The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being… can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • Brooke Shields The most rewarding thing is being on Broadway. I went into Cabaret as a replacement and was really challenged beyond anything I could have imagined.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • E. M. Forster The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Adam Osborne The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
    Adam Osborne
    British-American author and publisher (1939 - 2003)
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  • Plato The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Francis Bacon The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Bram Stoker The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth; these protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years.
    Dracula (1897)
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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