Quotes with one-man

Quotes 6181 till 6200 of 10005.

  • Hugh Blair Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.
    Hugh Blair
    Scottish minister of religion, author and rhetorician (1718 - 1800)
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  • E. M. Cioran Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist - a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist - only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Elie Wiesel Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Groucho Marx Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men - the other 999 follow women.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, ''What will you have, sir?'' And I said, ''A glass of hemlock.''
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Aldous Huxley Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are in the Golden Future.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bodhidharma Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.
    The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • Greg Anderson Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.
    Greg Anderson
    American author (1947 - )
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  • Germaine Greer Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities . To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Henry Ford Only one thing makes prosperity, and that is work.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Grace Speare Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
    Grace Speare
    American author (1927 - )
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  • Frederick W. Robertson Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.
    Frederick W. Robertson
    English divine (1816 - 1853)
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  • Walter Lippmann Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Joan Didion Only the dying man can tell how much time he has left.
    The Year of Magical Thinking (2007) 24
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Ayn Rand Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • George Eliot Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • T. S. Eliot Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Aeschylus Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Evelyn Waugh Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Clark Kenneth Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
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