Quotes with one-man

Quotes 2741 till 2760 of 10005.

  • George Bernard Shaw How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Benjamin Robert Haydon How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness.
    Benjamin Robert Haydon
    English painter (1786 - 1846)
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  • Aldous Huxley How difficult it is to sound persuasive at the top of one's voice!
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Horace How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot of which he has chosen or which chance has thrown his way, but praises those who follow a different course?
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Allen Tate How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Joseph Conrad How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Elizabeth Gaskell How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • Wallace Stevens How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Norman Douglas How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
    Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation - for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Ovid How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Elbert Hubbard How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Coco Chanel How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.
    Coco Chanel
    French couturier (1883 - 1971)
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  • Natalie Clifford Barney How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue
    Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
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  • Anna Freud How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me.
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • Marcus Aurelius How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Alice James How sick one gets of being ''good,'' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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