Quotes with one-verse

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  • Bret Easton Ellis No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other. You're not ever gonna know me.
    The Rules of Attraction (2010) 203
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Francis Lockier No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say many things indifferent, and many very bad.
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  • Bertolt Brecht No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Samuel Johnson No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Sara Teasdale No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.
    Sara Teasdale
    American lyric poet (1884 - 1933)
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  • Aristotle No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Tacitus No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Margaret Thatcher No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he only had good intentions. He had money as well.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • A. J. McLean No one's a virgin, life screws us all!
    A. J. McLean
    American singer (1978 - )
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  • Hermann Broch No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.
    Hermann Broch
    Austrian writer (1886 - 1951)
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  • George Orwell No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • W. H. Auden No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Bruce Barton No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • André Gide No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Samuel Johnson No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Horace No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • T. S. Eliot No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a scene or two, advise the prince.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Bill Goldberg No, if there is an aspect of the executive branch of the government that needs looking at, I'm liable to be called in to look at it. But I'm not the only one.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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