Quotes with single-string

Quotes 201 till 220 of 344.

  • Albrecht Durer No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.
    Albrecht Durer
    German painter (1471 - 1528)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Nothing in the world is single. All things by al law divine in one another's being mingle. Why not I with thine?
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Wendell Phillips On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.
    Wendell Phillips
    American Reformer, Orator (1811 - 1884)
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  • Ezra Pound One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Nido Qubein One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.
    Nido Qubein
    American businessman (1948 - )
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  • Bryant H. McGill One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Jean Paul Other exercises develop single powers and muscles, but dancing embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Alvin Toffler Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
    Alvin Toffler
    American writer, futurist, and businessman (1928 - 2016)
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  • Bjork Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Greg LeMond Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.
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  • Mary Kay Ash Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ''Make me feel important.'' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.
    Mary Kay Ash
    American businesswoman (1918 - 2001)
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  • Bill Buford Probably the single most important evolutionary trait dogs developed was right there at the outset, illuminated by the campfire. It is in those eyebrows and in the way dogs have of tilting their heads. They are warm packages of emotions.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Bernie Sanders Progressive activists are angry that a Medicare-for-all single-payer approach was totally ignored during the health care debate.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Bill Richardson Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities.
    Bill Richardson
    American politician, author, and diplomat (1947 - )
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  • Horace Mann Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Jane Austen Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Aldous Huxley Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Brody Jenner So many girls and guys want to find a girlfriend and settle down. But it's fun to be single.
    Brody Jenner
    American television personality, disc jockey and model (1983 - )
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