Quotes with one-pointed

Quotes 4601 till 4620 of 5914.

  • Anatole Broyard The tension between 'yes' and 'no,' between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.
    Anatole Broyard
    American writer, literary critic, and editor (0 - 1990)
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  • Arthur Levitt The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • Leonard Cohen The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Milovan Djilas The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one's personal integrity.
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  • Alfred Adler The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Adam Smith The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Ann-Marie MacDonald The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things.
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    Ann-Marie MacDonald
    Canadian playwright and actress (1958 - )
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  • Carlos Castaneda The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.
    Carlos Castaneda
    American author and anthropologist (1925 - 1998)
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  • Sigmund Freud The time comes when each one of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Billy Tauzin The timing was terrible, and having one disaster after another didn't help. I think the pictures on television of the way in which the disaster was handled also helped to turn off the public and Congress.
    Billy Tauzin
    American lobbyist and politician (1943 - )
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  • Marianne Williamson The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another.
    Marianne Williamson
    American writer (1952 - )
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  • Napoleon The torment of precautions often exceeds often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Afif Safieh The tormenting dilemma of the Middle East is this: either we have one people too many, or one state too few.
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Oscar Wilde The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Carlos Castaneda The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
    Carlos Castaneda
    American author and anthropologist (1925 - 1998)
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  • James Baldwin The trick is to love somebody... If you love one person, you see everybody else differently.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Ian McEwan The trouble with being a daydreamer who doesn’t say much is that the teachers at school, especially those who don’t know you very well, are likely to think you’re rather stupid. Or, if not stupid, then dull. No one can see the amazing things that are going on in your head.
    Ian McEwan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • Bob Kane The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator.
    Bob Kane
    American comic book writer, animator and artist (1915 - 1998)
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  • Billie Jean King The trouble with being number one in the world - in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position, and that is something of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve number one, you don't relax and enjoy it.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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