Quotes with man-on-the-street

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  • A. E. Housman Now hollow fires burn out to black,
    And lights are guttering low:
    Square your shoulders, lift your pack,
    And leave your friends and go.

    Oh never fear, man, nought's to dread,
    Look not to left nor right:
    In all the endless road you tread
    There's nothing but the night.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896)
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Now man cannot live without some vision of himself.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • William S. Burroughs Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? ''And here is my good big centipede!'' If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Agnes Smedley Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Billy Wilder Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting.
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Ovid Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Geoffrey Chaucer Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    British poet (1340 - 1400)
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  • Jonathan Swift O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • William Shakespeare O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, more pangs and fears than wars or women have, and when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, never to hope again.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Cowper O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Ben Shapiro Obama's entire foreign policy was predicated on the notion that by existing, he would bridge all gaps and bury all hatchets. Instead, the Muslim world burns his picture even as he tells them he respects their radicalism. It turns out that diversity is a one-way street for the devotees of global Islam.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift Observation is an old man's memory.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Angela Davis Obviously there are some organizations that go out on the street and say we want an end to the capitalist system. But obviously that is not going to happen as a result of just assuming that stance.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • John Selden Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life 'Tis most meddled with by other people.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Charles Dickens Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Mark Twain Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • John Ruskin Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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