Quotes with one-man

Quotes 3041 till 3060 of 10005.

  • Mark Twain I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Katherine Anne Porter I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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  • Ernest Hemingway I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation. A doctor who cannot take out your appendix properly will recommend you to a doctor who will be unable to remove your tonsils with success.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Patrick Henry I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.
    Patrick Henry
    American attorney, planter, and orator (1736 - 1799)
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  • Bruce Vilanch I have one rave 'New York Times' review framed next to a flop 'Los Angeles Times' review. And it's for the same show. These people watched the same show. That's what happens. They love it, they hate it.
    Bruce Vilanch
    American comedy writer, songwriter and actor (1948 - )
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.
    Source: The Zookeepers Wife (2008)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up...
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Thomas Carlyle I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Thomas Jefferson I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Busy Philipps I have the emergency kit in my purse that has double-sided tape and Tylenol, and a small energy bar. I'm the one that has an extra lip gloss just in case.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Bryan Magee I have very strongly this feeling... that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitudinous and yet mysterious and extraordinary.
    Source: Heidegger and Modern Existentialism (1977)
    Bryan Magee
    British philosopher, broadcaster, politician (1930 - 2019)
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  • Charles M. Schwab I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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  • Sydney Smith I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Francis Bacon I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Anthony Trollope I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • George Washington I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Aaron Copland I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience.
    Source: Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music
    Aaron Copland
    American composer and writer (1900 - 1990)
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