Quotes with man-on-the-street

Quotes 4101 till 4120 of 4652.

  • Barry Unsworth We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
    Barry Unsworth
    English writer (1930 - 2012)
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  • Jerome K. Jerome We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Joseph Roux We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
    Joseph Roux
    French priest, writer and poet (1834 - 1905)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Oscar Wilde We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bill Walton We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • James Truslow Adams We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.
    James Truslow Adams
    American writer and historian (1878 - 1949)
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  • Blaise Pascal We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • William Hazlitt We do not say that a man to be a critic must necessarily be a poet: but to be a good critic, he ought not to be a bad poet.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Carey Mulligan We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.
    Carey Mulligan
    English actress (1985 - )
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  • B. F. Skinner We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • John Ruskin We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Ronald Reagan We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Auberon Herbert We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Bobby Keys We just get up there and play rock-and-roll music, man. Everybody sweats and has a good time.
    Bobby Keys
    American saxophonist (1943 - 2014)
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