Quotes with one-man

Quotes 5061 till 5080 of 10005.

  • C. S. Lewis No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.
    The Weight of Glory
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Cyril Connolly No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Barry Lopez No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in all life, when one finds darkness not only in one's own culture but within oneself... There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of a leaning into the light.
    Arctic Dreams
    Barry Lopez
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Albert Claude No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Helen Rowland No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a ''Master of Arts'' and a ''Doctor of Philosophy'' after catering to an ordinary man for a few years.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Anatole France No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Jean Paul No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Ernest Renan No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
    Ernest Renan
    French writer and critic (1823 - 1892)
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  • George Bernard Shaw No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Samuel Johnson No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • George Bernard Shaw No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Gloria Steinem No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson No man can do anything well, who does not esteem his work to be of importance.
    Nature
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Sydney Smith No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • B. C. Forbes No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution. Every man who gets anywhere does so because he has first firmly resolved to progress in the world and then has enough stick-to-it-tiveness to transform his resolution into reality. Without resolution, no man can win any worthwhile place among his fellow men.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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