One Man Quotes - Page 22

• Fish got to swim, birds got to fly
  I got to love one man till I die
  Can't help lovin' dat man of mine.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Men, Bird, Swim

  "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" (song) (1927)

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• The paramount question of the day is not political, is not religious, but is economic. The crying-out demand of today is for a circle of principles that shall forever make it impossible for one man to control another by controlling the means of his existence.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Religious, Mean, Men

  Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.169, SUNY Press

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• Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Democracy, Ankh

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has been crazy enough to put a bomb up the asshole of creation and set it off. The world is rotting away, dying piecemeal. But it needs the coup de grace, it needs to be blown to smithereens. Not one of us is intact, and yet we have in us all the continents and the seas between the continents and the birds of the air. We are going to put it down ― the evolution of this world which has died but which has not been buried.

  Henry Miller

  Crazy, Men, Our World

  Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

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• What one man can invent, another can discover.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Holmes

  Sherlock Holmes in "The Adventure of the Dancing Men" (1903).

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• He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man ... or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Men, Democracy, Invasion

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1893). “Instead of a Book”, Ayer Company Pub

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• You try to make the world a better place and what does it get you? I mean, Christ, how the hell does one man stand a chance against four billion assholes?

  Daniel Clowes

  Mean, Men, Trying

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• The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another.

  Ayn Rand

  Lying, Men, Doctrine

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.27, Penguin

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• If there existed only one man or woman who did not love the Saviour, and if that person lived among the wilds of Siberia, and if it were necessary that all the millions of believers on the face of the earth should journey there, and every one of them plead with him to come to Jesus before he could be converted, it would be well worth all the zeal, labour, and expense. If we had to preach to thousands year after year, and never rescued but one soul, that one soul would be full reward for all our labour, for a soul is of countless price.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Journey, Men

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• It will come as no surprise to anybody to know that I support the traditional definition of marriage as a union of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others, as expressed in our traditional common law.

  Stephen Harper

  Men, Law, Support

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• I’m not going askew from the principles on which the United States was built; I’m right there with our founding fathers. I’m a patriot and a Christian, and I’m moving forth with what they started. But now it’s gotten to where I’m some kind of nut or Bible beater.
  I say, so be it. I’ll still go across the country spreading God’s Word, like I’ve done since I was twenty-eight. I may be only one man reading Scripture and quotes, carrying his Bible, and blowing duck calls to crowds, but, hey, it has to start somewhere. It’s what makes me happy, happy, happy.

  Phil Robertson

  Christian, Country, Father

  Phil Robertson (2013). “Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't make a Bible argument in the ad, nor have I made a bible argument in the public space. My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.

  Gary Bauer

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some mysterious workings of force within his soul will stand in defiance against any master. He is that one human in a thousand whose indomitable spirit will not bow. He is the one man in a thousand whose indomitable spirit cannot bow. He is the one man in a thousand who will not walk quietly to Umschlagplatz. Watch out for him, Alfred Funk, we have pushed him to the wall.

  Leon Uris

  Wall, Ghetto, Men

  LEON URIS (1961). “MILA 18”

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• The greatest secret of monarchic rule...is to keep men deceived and to cloak in the specious name of religion the fear by which they must be checked, so that they will fight for slavery as they would for salvation, and will think it not shameful, but a most honorable achievement, to give their life and blood that one man may have a ground for boasting.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Fighting, Men, Thinking

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• Remember, the Islamist view of democracy is: one man, one vote, one election, and that's it.

  John Fund

  Men, Views, Democracy

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• What I have written is but a fleeting intimation of the outside of what one man sees and may tell about the path he walks. No one shares the secret of a life; no one enters into the heart of the mystery.

  Howard Thurman

  Heart, Men, Secret

  Howard Thurman (1981). “With Head and Heart: The Autobiography of Howard Thurman”, p.291, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The one man team is a complete and total myth.

  Don Shula

  Teamwork, Motivational Sports, Men

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• If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Democracy, Bags

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.82, Routledge

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• Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause . . . True courage and manhood come from the consciousness of the right attitude toward the world, the faith in one's purpose, and the sufficiency of one's own approval as a justification for one's own acts.

  Clarence Darrow

  Peace, Attitude, Men

  Clarence Darrow, S. T. Joshi (2005). “Closing Arguments: Clarence Darrow on Religion, Law, and Society”, p.89, Ohio University Press

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• The warrior for the True, the Right,
  Fights in Love's name;
  The love that lures thee from that fight
  Lures thee to shame:
  That love which lifts the heart, yet leaves
  The spirit free,-
  That love, or none, is fit for one
  Man-shaped like thee.

  Aubrey Thomas de Vere

  Life, Heart, Fighting

  Aubrey Thomas DE VERE (1855). “Poems”, p.120

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• That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.140

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• Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

  Joseph Addison

  Knowledge, Men, Next

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1804). “The Guardian”, p.132

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• Definition of lecture: An art of transmitting Information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of students without passing through the minds of either.
  Definition of conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present
  Definition of office: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life.
  "What people say about me behind my back is none of my business."

  RuPaul

  Art, Home, Humor

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• What could he have done, one man against so many?" He could have tried, Brienne thought.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Done, Brienne

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.3136, Bantam

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• He tried to tell me week after week to accept things as they were and move on with my life. But if there was one man who had put his life on hold to wait for something or someone, it was him.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Moving, Men, Waiting

  Cecelia Ahern (2009). “There's No Place Like Here”, Hyperion

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