Quotes with plains-man

Quotes 1681 till 1700 of 4539.

  • Lois McMaster Bujold I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome.
    Original: Ich lehre euch den Übermenschen. Der Mensch ist Etwas das überwunden werden soll.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • George Eliot I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Henry van Dyke I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man's part in the real battle of life.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Lord George Byron I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation - they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Alfred de Vigny I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Lord Arthur Balfour I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. [Speaking Of Winston Churchill]
    Lord Arthur Balfour
    British statesman (1848 - 1930)
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  • Margaret Thatcher I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Bruce Kent I want to be optimistic because I don't think man is intrinsically violent.
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  • Martin Luther King I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Harper Lee I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
    Harper Lee
    American writer (1926 - 2016)
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  • David Gemmell I was a man before I was a king, and no true man walks away when a friend needs him.
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Kingsley Amis I was never an Angry Young Man. I am angry only when I hit my thumb with a hammer.
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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  • Charles M. Schwab I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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  • Bill Hicks I was walking through Central Park, and I saw an old man smoking. Nothing makes a smoker happier than to see an old person smoking. This guy was ancient, bent over a walker, puffing away. I'm like, Duuude, you're my hero! Guy your age smoking, man, it's great. He goes, What? I'm 28.
    Shock and Awe
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • William Wycherley I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.
    William Wycherley
    British drama writer (1640 - 1715)
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  • Samuel Pepys I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.
    Samuel Pepys
    English administrator of the navy and Member of Parliament (1633 - 1703)
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  • Francis Bacon I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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