Quotes with number-one

Quotes 3161 till 3180 of 6069.

  • Wallace Stevens One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Virginia Woolf One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • W. H. Auden One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Jean Anouilh One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
    Jean Anouilh
    French playwright (1910 - 1987)
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  • Edward Dahlberg One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness, two of barrenness, and three of sodomy.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Samuel Johnson One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Jesse Owens One chance is all you need.
    Jesse Owens
    American athlete (1913 - 1980)
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  • Machiavelli One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Denis Waitley One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Bryant H. McGill One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Robert Collier One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Jorge Luis Borges One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
    Jorge Luis Borges
    Argentijns writer (1899 - 1986)
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  • Woodrow Wilson One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Robert Frost One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • James Watson One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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  • Boris Yeltsin One could see that what you are writing was that today's meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster.
    Speaking to the press following a postively productive meeting with Bill Clinton (24 October 1995)
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • C. Wright Mills One could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.
    The Sociological Imagination (1959) P. 31, commenting on the verbosity of the chief wo
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Daniel Webster One country, one constitution, one destiny.
    Daniel Webster
    American lawyer and statesman (1782 - 1852)
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  • Seneca One crime has to be concealed by another.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Lewis Carroll One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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