Quotes with man-in-the-street

Quotes 4181 till 4200 of 4652.

  • Lord Palmerston What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.
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  • Henry Miller What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Henry David Thoreau What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Oscar Wilde What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Leonard Cohen What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • William Blake What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Arthur Erickson What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be ''man''!
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Evelyn Waugh What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Charles A. Lindbergh What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don't believe in taking foolish chances but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.
    Charles A. Lindbergh
    American aviator and inventor
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • Seneca What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Angelina Grimke What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it.
    Angelina Grimke
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle What one man can invent, another can discover.
    Source: Sherlock Holmes in "The Adventure of the Dancing Men (1903)
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • George Bernard Shaw What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Lord George Byron What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Alexander Graham Bell What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
    Alexander Graham Bell
    Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator (1847 - 1922)
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  • Bernie Sanders What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangsters and loan sharks do who make predatory loans. While the bankers wear three-piece suits and don't break the knee caps of those who can't pay back, they still are destroying people's lives.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Kurt Vonnegut What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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