Quotes with one-man

Quotes 9021 till 9040 of 10005.

  • Alice James What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • Lord George Byron What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Dan Quayle What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
    Dan Quayle
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Lord George Byron What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bill Dedman What are the odds that a nuclear emergency like the one at Fukushima Dai-ichi could happen in the central or eastern United States? They'd have to be astronomical, right?
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts?
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Oscar Wilde What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Alan Paton What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
    Alan Paton
    South African author and anti-apartheid activist (1903 - 1988)
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  • Calvin Trillin What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Bill Veeck What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat.
    Bill Veeck
    American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter (1914 - )
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  • Ben Parr What can we learn from the battle between data and design? What can we learn from the relationship between Google and Apple? Clearly no one school of thought is right: Apple and Google are both wildly successful and profitable companies that changed the world.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Hermann Hesse What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men - each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature - are shot down wholesale.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • John Ruskin What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Samuel Beckett What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Mark Twain What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • O. Henry What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
    O. Henry
    American short story writer, pen name of William S. Porter (1862 - 1910)
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  • Edmund Burke What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Napoleon Hill What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • William James What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise - although the philosophers generally call it ''recognition''!
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Aeschylus What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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