One Man Quotes - Page 19

• This is not pessimism but rather casting a cold eye on things. It is only one man's story, and I think that things will go better, but difficulties exist and nothing is served by hiding them under a poetic veil or under a lyricism of the past. I am against slogans.

  Chinua Achebe

  Eye, Past, Men

  Chinua Achebe, Bernth Lindfors (1997). “Conversations with Chinua Achebe”, p.8, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• As for the differences of opinion upon speculative questions, if we wait till they are reconciled, the action of human affairs must be suspended forever. But neither are we to look for perfection in any one man, nor for agreement among many.

  Junius

  Men, Differences, Perfection

  Junius, Sir Philip Francis (1813). “Junius. Stat nominis umbra”, p.310

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• Un homme avec Dieu est toujours dans la majorite  . One man with God is always a majority.

  John Knox

  Men, Majority

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• Our native susceptibilities and acquired tastes determine which of the many qualities in an object shall most impress us, and be most clearly recalled. One man remembers the combustible properties of a substance, which to another is memorable for its polarising property; to one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.

  George Henry Lewes

  Memorable, Men, Water

  "The Principles of Success in Literature". The Fortnightly Review, Volume 1, www.gutenberg.org. 1865.

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• When you run an organization like the Teamsters one man has to be the boss and run things.

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Running, Men, Organization

  "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 22-23), 1975.

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• In A Life In Books, author and graphic design visionary Warren Lehrer crafts a vivid kaleidoscopic odyssey that frames one man’s life through not one, but one hundred different books—and book jackets... An unmistakably modern evocation of the illuminated manuscript.

  Jessica Helfand

  Book, Men, Design

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• Marriage has driven more than one man to sex.

  Peter De Vries

  Sex, Men, Driven

  Peter De Vries (2014). “The Tunnel of Love: A Novel”, p.64, University of Chicago Press

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• God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop up and come just as close to making him swallow his laughter as possible.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Laughter, Men, Feelings

  A letter to his wife Polly in October 1938. "Bare-faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard" by Russell Miller, p. 81, 1987.

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• What is clear to one man may be doubtful to another.

  Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

  Men, Doubt, May

  Godfrey v. Hudson, 2 Esp. 500, 1788.

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• Waste cannot be accurately told, though we are sensible how destructive it is. Economy, on the one hand, by which a certain income is made to maintain a man genteelly; and waste, on the other, by which on the same income another man lives shabbily, cannot be defined. It is a very nice thing; as one man wears his coat out much sooner than another, we cannot tell how.

  Samuel Johnson

  Nice, Men, Hands

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.254

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• O that a lady, of one man refused,
  Should of another therefore be abused!

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Rejection, Abuse

  William Shakespeare (2005). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.28, Shakespeare Comic Books

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• I would not lose so great an honor
  As one man more methinks would share with me
  For the best hope I have.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Honor, Fame

  William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, John Payne Collier, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Henry IV, pt. 2. Henry V. Henry VI, pts. 1-3”, p.189

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• If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Individual, Ifs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.237, Library of America

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• One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Men, Mouths, Spoons

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• It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of one man.

  Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.

  War, Character, Men

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• Personality is a person among persons. There is no personality of one man on a desert island.

  Kwame Kilpatrick

  Men, Islands, Personality

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• I was getting money for showing one man killing another. Two lives were destroyed and I was getting paid for it. (On his 1968 photograph of the summary street corner execution of prisoner Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnam's police chief, Lt. Col. Nguyen Ngoc Loan.)

  Eddie Adams

  Men, Two, Police

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• My department is not too big for one man, because I'm Superman.

  John Prescott

  Men, Bigs, Department

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• I do not believe there is any important difference between men and women - certainly not as much as they may be between one woman and another or one man and another.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Believe, Men, Differences

  Pearl S. Buck (2017). “Of Men and Women: How to Be for Each Other”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• You know George W. Bush is a war-time president, he says - proudly. Guess what. War is failure! When you are at war, you have failed! When you have gone to a war of choice and lied about it, you're a double-triple, triple-quadruple failure! Or a warlord. It's called a warlord in other countries. A war time president here. One man's ceiling I guess is another man's floor. George Bush is a warlord. He's a failure!

  Janeane Garofalo

  Country, War, Men

  "The Majority Report" with Janeane Garofalo, July 22, 2005.

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• One man's priority is another man's extravagence.

  Edwina Currie

  Character, Men, Priorities

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• One man's toxic waste is another man's potpourri.

  Jim Carrey

  Men, Toxic Waste, Potpourri

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• I don't want to be a pessimist. I'm a realist. One man's realist is another man's pessimist.

  Bill Maher

  Men, Want, Realist

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. September 14, 2010.

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• The legal system we have and the rule of law are far more responsible for our traditional liberties than any system of one man one vote. Any country or Government which wants to proceed towards tyranny starts to undermine legal rights and undermine the law.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Men, Rights

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• Happiness is much more equally divided than some of us imagine. One man shall possess most of the materials, but little of the thing; another may possess much of the thing, but very few of the material. In this particular view of it, happiness had been beautifully compared to the man in the desert--he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Happiness, Men, Views

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