Quotes with one-liners

Quotes 1221 till 1240 of 5903.

  • Salman Rushdie Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Phyllis Mcginley Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of diffident and slow-ripening ones.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Sigmund Freud From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • James Thurber From one casual of mine he picked this sentence. ''After dinner, the men moved into the living room.'' I explained to the professor that this was Rose' way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. There must, as we know, be a comma after every move, made by men, on this earth.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Booker T. Washington From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
    Up From Slavery (1901) Ch. I: A Slave Among Slaves
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Oscar Wilde From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ayn Rand From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Boz Scaggs From the time I moved to San Francisco in 1967 to play with the Steve Miller Band, there was a lot of support in the music community for one cause or another, but this one was special because it was put on by people who understood where musicians' hearts are.
    Boz Scaggs
    American singer, songwriter, and guitarist (1944 - )
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
    Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • John Haggai Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.
    John Haggai
    American evangelist (1924 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht General, man is very useful.
    He can fly and he can kill.
    But he has one defect:
    He can think.
    Poems, 1913-1956
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Bertolt Brecht General, your tank
    is a powerful vehicle
    it smashes down forests
    and crushes a hundred men.
    but it has one defect:
    it needs a driver.
    Poems, 1913-1956
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Horace Mann Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • Benjamin Haydon Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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