Quotes with number-one

Quotes 3141 till 3160 of 6069.

  • Stephen Hawking One can not really argue with a mathematical theorem.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Oscar Wilde One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased opinion is always valueless. The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Elbert Hubbard One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Rosamond Lehmann One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.
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  • John Berger One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Max Weber One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
    Max Weber
    German economist, historian and sociologist (1864 - 1920)
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  • Oscar Wilde One can survive everything, nowadays, except death.
    The picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Boman Irani One can understand a person by the way he removes his wallet and puts his hand to take out money.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Bernard Malamud One can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
    Dubins Lives p. 27.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Jane Austen One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.
    Gift from the Sea (1955) p. 114
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Bob Schaffer One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.
    Bob Schaffer
    American politician (1962 - )
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  • Carolyn Heilbrun One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.
    Carolyn Heilbrun
    American academic and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • Aaron Klug One cannot plan for the unexpected
    Aaron Klug
    British biophysicist (1926 - 2018)
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  • Anatole Rapoport One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.
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  • George Orwell One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Paul Tillich One cannot remove anxiety by arguing it away.
    Paul Tillich
    German-American theologian and philosopher (1886 - 1965)
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  • W. H. Auden One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Anish Kapoor One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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