Quotes with one-verse

Quotes 5101 till 5120 of 5921.

  • Barbara Deming To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Tryon Edwards To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Ayn Rand To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I.".
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • George Orwell To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
    Source: In Front of Your Nose (1946)
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • George Steiner To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs - but a tribute nevertheless.
    George Steiner
    French-born American Critic, Novelist (1929 - 2020)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Alexander Smith To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Wayne Dyer To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Publilius Syrus To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Benjamin Jowett To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.
    Benjamin Jowett
    British theologian (1817 - 1893)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo To the question how one kind of labor can be measured against another, how the labor of the artisan can be measured against the labor of the artist, how the labor of the strong can be measured against the labor of the weak, the communists can give no answer.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Plato To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Samuel Beckett To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Terence To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.
    Terence
    Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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  • Robert Thibodeau To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • John Stuart Mill To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Albert Einstein To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Carlo Ratti Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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