Quotes with number-one

Quotes 2581 till 2600 of 6069.

  • Blaise Pascal Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Ralph Ransom Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one.
    Ralph Ransom
    American art painter
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  • Alfred A. Montapert Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures.
    Alfred A. Montapert
    American writer
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  • Elie Wiesel Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Pat Riley Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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  • Victor Hugo Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Juvenal Many commit the same crime with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villainy, another wears a crown.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Thomas Jones Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone.
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  • Winston Churchill Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Billy Porter Many movie stars or American Idol contestants sort of fall into theater... and say, 'Oh, yeah, I would love to do theater.' And then they get here and say, 'Oh, wait a minute, this actually is a craft!' It's not just show up one day and do it. It's show up eight times a week, twice on Wednesdays and twice on Saturdays.
    Billy Porter
    American actor and singer (1969 - )
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  • Bob Weinstein Many people have vied to become the third Weinstein brother, and I'm not sure why, but that distinction only goes to one person - Quentin Tarantino.
    Bob Weinstein
    American film producer (1954 - )
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  • Peace Pilgrim Many people profess Christianity. Very few live it-almost none. And when you live it people may think you're crazy. It has been truthfully said that the world is equally shocked by one who repudiates Christianity as by one who practices it.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Seneca Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • B. F. Skinner Many social practices essential to the welfare of the species involve the control of one person by another, and no one can suppress them who has any concern for human achievements.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Arlie Russell Hochschild Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.
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  • Asa Gray Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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