Quotes with one-man

Quotes 4041 till 4060 of 10005.

  • Andrew Cohen It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • John Morley It is not enough to do good; one must do it in a good way.
    Source: On Compromise p. 58
    John Morley
    British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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  • William Hazlitt It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • St. Francis of Assisi It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
    St. Francis of Assisi
    Italian saint, founder of the Franciscan monastic order (1182 - 1226)
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  • Baha'u'llah It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.
    Baha'u'llah
    Persian founder of the Bahá'í Faith (1817 - 1892)
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  • Robert Southey It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutalized his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.
    Robert Southey
    British writer (1774 - 1843)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Alan Cumming It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.
    Alan Cumming
    Scottish-American actor, comedian, singer, and activist (1965 - )
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  • Epictetus It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Shirley Chisholm It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.
    Shirley Chisholm
    American politician, educator, and author (1924 - 2005)
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  • John Ruskin It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Archibald Macleish It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Vivienne Westwood It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.
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  • Confucius It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Blaise Pascal It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.
    Original: Il nest pas honteux pour lhomme de succomber sous la douleur et il est honteux de succomber sous le plaisir.
    Source: Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Arthur Wellesley It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.
    Arthur Wellesley
    Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman (1769 - 1852)
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  • George Macdonald It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow that weigh a man down. For the needs of today we have corresponding strength given. For the morrow we are told to trust. It is not ours yet.
    George Macdonald
    Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
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  • Anna Julia Cooper It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.
    Anna Julia Cooper
    American author, activist and sociologist (1858 - 1964)
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  • Vincent Van Gogh It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Seneca It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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