Quotes with one-liners

Quotes 2221 till 2240 of 5903.

  • C. L. R. James It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Oscar Wilde It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Raymond Chandler It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Abigail Adams It is really mortifying, sir, when a woman possessed of a common share of understanding considers the difference of education between the male and female sex, even in those families where education is attended to.... Nay why should your sex wish for such a disparity in those whom they one day intend for companions and associates. Pardon me, sir, if I cannot help sometimes suspecting that this neglect arises in some measure from an ungenerous jealousy of rivals near the throne.
    Source: Letter to John Thaxter, 15 February 1778
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Brenda Ueland It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.
    Brenda Ueland
    American journalist, editor, and teacher
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  • David Herbert Lawrence It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Blaise Pascal It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • A. Lindbergh It is terribly amusing how different climates of feeling one can go through in a day.
    A. Lindbergh
     
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  • Junius It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.
    Junius
    pseudonym of a writer of letters to the Public Advertiser
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  • George Gurdjieff It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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  • Carolyn Wells It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.
    Carolyn Wells
    American writer and poet (1862 - 1942)
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  • Ramakrishna It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.
    Ramakrishna
    Hindu mystic and religious leader (1836 - 1886)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Eric Hoffer It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites - opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity - where energies flow smoothly in one direction - there will be much doing but no music.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Joyce Cary It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know, and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.
    Joyce Cary
    Irish novelist (1888 - 1957)
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  • Og Mandino It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Cato the Elder It is thus with farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Vince Lombardi It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever - the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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