Quotes with one-man

Quotes 3161 till 3180 of 10005.

  • A. N. Wilson I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I shouldn't have acted. I didn't exhibit any ability. I was one of the kids in the school play who was just mouthing words, and they weren't the actual words of the song. I was pretty lame!
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Bryan Brown I simply went down there to catch up with an old mate of mine, who owns the place. He's the one who wrote the book on the place, but no, no movie, just a beer.
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  • Leo Tolstoy I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Oscar Wilde I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Burt Rutan I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot of fun building airplanes that people could build in their garages. And some 3,000 of those are flying. Of course, one of them is around-the-world Voyager.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Caitlyn Marie Jenner I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week training for a career that lasted twelve years.
    Caitlyn Marie Jenner
    American television personality and decathlete (born Bruce Jenner)
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  • Jim Bakker I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.
    Jim Bakker
    American televangelist (1940 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Arthur Golden I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Alice James I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • Charlie Chaplin I suppose that's one of the ironies of life, doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
    Charlie Chaplin
    British actor, movie maker (1889 - 1977)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Terence I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.
    Terence
    Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome.
    Original: Ich lehre euch den Übermenschen. Der Mensch ist Etwas das überwunden werden soll.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Sri Sarada Devi I tell you one thing - if you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own.
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  • Carl Sandburg I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • George Eliot I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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