Quotes with one-woman

Quotes 5101 till 5120 of 6607.

  • Henry James The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Aleister Crowley The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Douglas Jerrold The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • Barry Cornwall The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.
    Source: Dramatic scenes: with other poems
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • John Cheever The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
    John Cheever
    American writer (1912 - 1982)
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  • Elbert Hubbard The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Elbert Hubbard The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Samuel Beckett The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • 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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  • George Bernard Shaw The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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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.
    Source: Fall On Your Knees (2011) 358
    Ann-Marie MacDonald
    Canadian playwright and actress (1958 - )
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  • Marguerite Duras The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you're a man or a woman, the fascination resides in finding out that we're alike.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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