Quotes with one-man

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  • David Letterman Number one: Don't frisk me. Don't hurt me physically. Don't get anywhere near my neck. And don't call me Regis. [Advice to his guests]
    David Letterman
    American television host, comedian, writer, and producer (1947 - )
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  • William Shakespeare O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, more pangs and fears than wars or women have, and when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, never to hope again.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • St. Teresa of Avila O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
    St. Teresa of Avila
    Spanish saint, mystic (1515 - 1582)
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  • Helen Hunt Jackson O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather.
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  • William Cowper O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Bob Beauprez Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems. The inescapable conclusion, however, is that the primary driver of the short-term deficit is not tax cuts but the lack of any meaningful economic growth over the last half decade.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez Obama not only falsely represented the Republican position - as usual - he shamelessly pretended that he was The One 'fighting so hard to cut middle-class taxes.' Baloney!
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro Obama's entire foreign policy was predicated on the notion that by existing, he would bridge all gaps and bury all hatchets. Instead, the Muslim world burns his picture even as he tells them he respects their radicalism. It turns out that diversity is a one-way street for the devotees of global Islam.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Andy Rooney Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • David Lehman Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority in the face of one's diminished influence.
    David Lehman
     
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  • Jonathan Swift Observation is an old man's memory.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Mark Twain October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Mark Twain October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The other are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.
    Source: Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) CH. 13
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Carolyn Gold Heilbrun Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.
    Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
    American academic, feminist and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • Matthew Prior Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?
    Matthew Prior
    British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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  • John Selden Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life 'Tis most meddled with by other people.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Charles Dickens Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Mark Twain Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • John Ruskin Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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