Quotes with one-liners

Quotes 4401 till 4420 of 5903.

  • Betty Williams The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.
    Betty Williams
    Irish activist (1943 - 2020)
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  • Iris Murdoch The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Bob Woodward The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Bjorn Lomborg The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Benny Hill The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.
    Benny Hill
    English comedian, actor and singer (1924 - 1992)
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  • Eugene O'Neill The old, like children, talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!
    Eugene O'Neill
    American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature (1888 - 1953)
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  • Virginia Woolf The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Mark Twain The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ben Affleck The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Francis Lockier The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that.
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  • George Orwell The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Oscar Wilde The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
    The Critic as Artist (1891)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • David Brinkley The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
    David Brinkley
    American newsreader (1920 - 2003)
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  • Bill Kurtis The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say 'we'll let it go this time,' you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • Anne Tyler The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Aeschylus The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Oscar Wilde The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Francis H. Bradley The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
    Francis H. Bradley
    British Philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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