Quotes with plains-man

Quotes 3581 till 3600 of 4539.

  • Max Lerner The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.
    Max Lerner
    American Author, Columnist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Norman Cousins The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Heywood Brown The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
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  • Germaine Greer The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • William Blake The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Ben Kingsley The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.
    Ben Kingsley
    English actor (1943 - )
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • Charles Sumner The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.
    Charles Sumner
    American politician and U.S. Senator (1811 - 1874)
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  • Cyril Connolly The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Ann Landers The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Oscar Wilde The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Pierre Charron The true science and study of man, is man himself.
    Pierre Charron
    French philosopher (1541 - 1603)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Carine Roitfeld The true test of a man's style is the haircut. There are some men who look good no matter how their hair is styled, whether it's trendy or not. A man can change his haircut many times, but to pull off any haircut, you have to be very chic. Like Brad Pitt.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Albert Schweitzer The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Phillips Brooks The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • William Hazlitt The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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