Quotes with number-one

Quotes 1921 till 1940 of 6069.

  • Teena Booth If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
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  • George Orwell If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bertrand Russell If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Cass Sunstein If there's a regulation that's saving 10,000 lives and costing one job, it's worth it.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Ben Gibbard If there's no one beside you
    When your soul embarks
    Then I'll follow you into the dark
    Plans I Will Follow You Into The Dark
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Bernard Williams If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's the idea that some things are, in some real sense, really you - or express what you and others aren't.
    Bernard Williams
    English philosopher (1929 - 2003)
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  • Bill Parcells If there's one thing I can't stand, it's a quarterback who thinks playing quarterback is just about passing.
    Bill Parcells
    American coach in the NFL (1941 - )
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  • Stephen R. Covey If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • William James If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained... it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Lily Tomlin If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?
    Lily Tomlin
    American Comedienne (1939 - )
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Henry Miller If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Abdul Kalam If we are not free, no one will respect us.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Simone Weil If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Margaret Mead If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Bayard Rustin If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • H. Ross Perot If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create something the size of N.A.S.A. to make one.
    H. Ross Perot
    American businessman & politician, founder EDS (1930 - 2019)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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