One Man Quotes - Page 17

• One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter

  Gerald Seymour

  Men, Another Day, Fighter

  Gerald Seymour (2007). “Harry's Game: A Thriller”, p.44, The Overlook Press

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• The head of the AFL-CIO endorsed John Kerry, saying, 'The time has come to come behind one man, one leader, one candidate.' Then he said, 'And until we find that man, we will endorse John Kerry.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Men, Leader, Cio

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• We are redeemed one man at a time. There is no family pass ticket or park hopping pass to life. One ticket - one at a time. Man doesn't vanquish hatred or bigotry. The target keeps moving. From the blacks to the Irish; atheists to Christians. But as always there are a few leaders: Ben Franklin, John Quincy Adams, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Fredrick Douglas, Booker T Washington, Ghandi and Martin Luther King. They know that the march toward freedom never ends, man must be ever vigilant and pray less with his lips and more with his legs.

  Glenn Beck

  Christian, Atheist, Kings

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• Season of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih, is an eloquent and restrained portrait of one man's exile. It is a rare narrative in that it charts a life divided between England and Sudan. Without a doubt it is one of the finest Arabic novels of the 20th century, and Denys Johnson-Davies' translationdoes the original justice.

  Hisham Matar

  Men, Justice, Doubt

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• Just build your brand from day one, man. Your brand is your name, basically. A lot of people don't know that they need to build their brand, your brand is what keeps you moving.

  Meek Mill

  Moving, Men, Names

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• If the union of these States, and the liberties of this people, shall be lost, it is but little to any one man of fifty-two yearsof age, but a great deal to the thirty millions of people who inhabit these United States, and to their posterity in all coming time.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Two, People

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.194, Wildside Press LLC

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• Not for any one man's delight has Nature made
  the sun, the wind, the waters; all are free.

  Ovid

  Nature, Men, Wind

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• Maybe I'm naive, but I still have a little bit of faith in the structure of the United States government and thinking that one man can't ruin everything. I don't know if it's just because I'm hopeful or cynical, but I just don't think one man can change everything. It's just like I didn't think Obama could save the country by himself. I don't think Trump can ruin the country all by himself. I don't know. I hope I'm right.

  Michael Che

  Country, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Every faculty in one man is the measure by which he judges of the like faculty in another. I judge of your sight by my sight, of your ear by my ear, of your reason by my reason, of your resentment by my resentment, of your love by my love. I neither have, nor can have, any other way of judging about them.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Sight, Judging

  Adam Smith (2012). “The Theory of Moral Sentiments”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• One man's antinomy is another man's falsidical paradox, give or take a couple of thousand years.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Couple, Men, Years

  Willard Van Orman Quine (1976). “The Ways of Paradox, and Other Essays”, p.9, Harvard University Press

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• A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform... therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.

  James Harrington

  Writing, Army, Men

  James Harrington, J. G. A. Pocock (1992). “Harrington: 'The Commonwealth of Oceana' and 'A System of Politics'”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

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• This is the first time in history that a war has involved the whole world, and also it may last many years more; this thought is soul-shattering for all of us as human beings. It is horrible to think that the crimes committed by this one man Hitler have these many years been destroying the lives of hundreds of thousands and millions, and one would despair entirely were it not certain that the majority, the innumerable majority which opposes him openly or secretly, will succeed in wiping out once and for all him and his.

  Stefan Zweig

  Life, War, Men

  Stefan Zweig, Friderike Maria Burger Winternitz Zweig, Henry G. Alsberg (1954). “Stefan and Friderike Zweig: their correspondence, 1912-1942”

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• To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.

  George Henry Lewes

  Men, Water, Acquired Taste

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• One man's fantasy is another man's job.

  Richard Avedon

  Jobs, Men, Fantasy

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• In private matters everyone is equal before the law. In public matters, when it is a question of putting power and responsibility into the hands of one man rather than another, what counts is not rank or money, but the ability to do the job well.

  Pericles

  Jobs, Responsibility, Men

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• Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It is the only medium of art I can think of which appeals directly to none of our five senses. The oral and folk tradition in narrative made use of verse or live-voice dynamics, embellished by gesture and expression--a kind of rudimentary theater--as do the best raconteurs of all times. Commonly there was musical accompaniment as well: a kind of one-man theater-of-mixed-means.

  John Barth

  Art, Mean, Men

  John Barth (1984). “The Friday book: essays and other nonfiction”, Putnam Pub Group

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• The closer I move
  To death, one man through his sundered hulks,
  The louder the sun blooms
  And the tusked, ramshackling sea exults.

  Dylan Thomas

  Moving, Men, Sea

  Dylan Thomas (2003). “Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952”, p.185, New Directions Publishing

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• Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Wealth, Industrious

  John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1872). “The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion, Selected from the Works of John Ruskin”, p.408

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• The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by it's author's explanations it never should have been published, and if the poem cannot be improved by its author's explanations the explanations are scarcely worth reading.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Reading, Men, Should Have

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• A set of ideas, a point of view, a frame of reference is in space only an intersection, the state of affairs at some given momentin the consciousness of one man or many men, but in time it has evolving form, virtually organic extension. In time ideas can be thought of as sprouting, growing, maturing, bringing forth seed and dying like plants.

  John Dos Passos

  Knowledge, Men, Views

  John Dos Passos (2010). “The Ground We Stand on: The History of a Political Creed”, p.17, Transaction Publishers

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• Anyone who critically analyzes a business learns this: that the success or failure of an enterprise depends usually upon one man.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Men, Enterprise, Success Or Failure

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• What is one man among so many men?
  What are so many men in such a world?
  Can one man think one thing and think it long?
  Can one man be one thing and be it long?

  Wallace Stevens

  Men, Thinking, Long

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.41, Vintage

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• This Is Not a Novel memorializes the treasures and detritus of one man's singularly cultured mind. (...) If you don't know Writer's work at all, try This Is Not a Novel. There may be some doubt about exactly what kind of book it is, but not that it's altogether wonderful.

  Michael Dirda

  Book, Men, Doubt

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• One man's larceny is another's just distribution of goods.

  Robert Bork

  Men, Goods, Distribution

  Robert H. Bork (2009). “The Tempting of America”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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• Mike Pence, when he was in Congress, voted against raising the minimum wage above $5.15. And he has been a one-man bulwark against minimum wage increases in Indiana.

  Tim Kaine

  Men, Minimum Wage, Indiana

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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