One Man Quotes - Page 10

• Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Death, Rip

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• Not one man in a million would have allowed me the time without speaking. I opened my mind, let my gaurd down completely, relaxed. His silence washed over me. I stood, closed my eyes, breathed out the relief that was too profound for words.

  Charlaine Harris

  Eye, Men, Profound

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• The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man to govern others.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Independence, Firsts

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.114, Library of Alexandria

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• The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and insignificant. It was no longer a question of one man one vote, but of one man one universe.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Pride, Men, Political

  George Bernard Shaw "The Progressive" (1910)

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• I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.

  Lucy Stone

  Winning, Men, Thinking

  Lucy Stone, Henry Browne Blackwell, Leslie Wheeler (1981). “Loving warriors: selected letters of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell, 1853 to 1893”, Doubleday

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• A tree, freshly rooted, may be pulled up by one man on his own. Give it time, and it will not be moved, even with a crane

  Saadi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Men

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• I have travelled and been pretty much a one man operation for most of my career, and I think it'll continue to be that way.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Men, Thinking, Careers

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• Mystic equality lies in abstraction, not in having or in doing, which are processes. In function and process, one man, one part, must of necessity be subordinate to another. It is a condition of being.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Lying, Men, Process

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Women in Love”, p.219, Xist Publishing

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• GraceQuest is a gripping story of one man's (and his family's) struggle with tremendous weakness and pain, but it is also a narrative theodicy--defense of God's goodness in spite of the undeniable reality of evil. . . . This is an honest and hard-hitting book about God's grace in and through tremendous loss of health and strength. Readers will find hope and help here if they are open to its message about the God-given 'strength to suffer well.'

  Roger E. Olson

  Pain, Struggle, Book

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• Some virtues, when they become fashions, also become exaggerated. Just because nobody likes a judgmental attitude does not mean that there isn't a sort of spoiled, self-righteous hypocrisy when one man obsessively commands other men not to judge without knowing the circumstances without himself, too, knowing their circumstances behind their judgments.

  Criss Jami

  Fashion, Attitude, Mean

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• No one can stop a home run. No one can understand what it really is, unless you have felt it in your own hands and body. As the ball makes its high, long arc beyond the playing field, the diamond and the stands suddenly belong to one man. In that brief, brief time, you are free of all demands and complications.

  Sadaharu Oh

  Running, Home, Men

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• We can roam the bloated stacks of the Library of Alexandria, where all imagination and knowledge are assembled; we can recognize in its destruction the warning that all we gather will be lost, but also that much of it can be collected again; we can learn from its splendid ambition that what was one man's experience can become, through the alchemy of words, the experience of all, and how that experience, distilled once again into words, can serve each singular reader for some secret, singular purpose.

  Alberto Manguel

  Ambition, Men, Imagination

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.36, Vintage Canada

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• From the loving example of one family a whole State may become loving, and from its courtesies, courteous; while from the ambition and perverseness of the one man the whole State may be thrown into rebellious disorder. Such is the nature of influence.

  Confucius

  Ambition, Men, Example

  Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, p.1142, Delphi Classics

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• If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Different, Portraiture

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• One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Body, May

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.65, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man. It is assuredly no part of religion to compel religion, to which free will and not force should lead us.

  Tertullian

  Nature, Men, Religion

  Tertullian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)”, p.247, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Women's emotions are still fitted for a kind of society that no longer exists. My deep emotions, my real ones, are to do with my relationship with a man. One man. But I don't live that kind of life, and I know few women who do. So what I feel is irrelevant and silly.

  Doris Lessing

  Real, Women, Silly

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• One man is a splendid fighter -- a god has made him so -- one's a dancer, another skilled at lyre and song, and deep in the next man's chest farseeing Zeus plants the gift of judgment, good clear sense. And many reap the benefits of that treasure.

  Homer

  Song, Men, Dancer

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• No race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Kings, Men, Race

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”

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• There is but one man who can believe himself free from envy; and it is he who has never examined his own heart.

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Believe, Heart, Men

  Claude Adrien Helvétius (1777). “A Treatise on Man, His Intellectual Faculties and His Education: A Posthumous Work of M. Helvetius. Translated from the French, with Additional Notes, by W. Hooper, ...”, p.291

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• One man's idea of perfect order is another man's chaos.

  Dean Koontz

  Men, Order, Ideas

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel”, p.227, Bantam

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• The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.

  Edmund Burke

  Power, Men, World

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.23

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• Thus hope, aided by imagination, makes one man a hero, another a somnambulist, and a third a lunatic; while it renders them all enthusiasts.

  James Fitzjames Stephen

  Hope, Hero, Men

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• There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common, but one man, keeping the law himself to himself, has the sway, and this is no longer equal.

  Euripides

  Men, Law, Cities

  Euripides (1863). “The Tragedies of Euripides: Hercules furens. The Troades. Ion. Andromache. Suppliants. Helen. Electra. Cyclops. Rhesus”, p.175

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• Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Heaven, Weakness

  Alexander Pope (1829). “An Essay on Man: And Other Poems”, p.21

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