Quotes with one-man

Quotes 3241 till 3260 of 10005.

  • William Butler Yeats I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; -neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Abdul Kalam I wonder why some people tend to see science as something which takes man away from God. As I look at it, the path of science can always wind through the heart. For me, science has always been the path to spiritual enrichment and self-realisation.
    Source: Wings of Fire
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Edith Wharton I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Anne Tyler I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Brooke Shields I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years - it's not Zen, believe me, I'm not at all Zen - but I'm so appreciative of even the chaos.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Bill Mauldin I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergents and jeeps which jump over mountains.
    Source: Up Front
    Bill Mauldin
    American cartoonist (1921 - 2003)
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  • Cato the Elder I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Samuel Johnson I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Booker T. Washington I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
    Source: Up From Slavery (1901)
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Aneurin Bevan I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Gerry Spence I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
    Gerry Spence
     
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  • Mark Twain I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Don Marquis I would rather start a family than finish one.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Edward Dahlberg I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • J. G. Ballard I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Daniel O'Connell I would walk from here to Drogheda and back to see the man who is blockhead enough to expect anything except injustice from an English Parliament.
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  • Iain Banks I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!
    Iain Banks
    Scottish author (1954 - 2013)
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