One Man Quotes - Page 25

• I always say when you write a book, you're a 'one-man band.' Whereas, when you finish a screenplay, it's just a sketch.

  Diablo Cody

  Book, Writing, Men

  "‘Young Adult’ Writer Diablo Cody: We Never Really Grow Up" by Margaret Bristol, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 09, 2011.

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• One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Running, Men, Solitude

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• I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Two, Play

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• It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Work, Women, Memorable

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.8, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?

  Black Elk

  Winter, Men, Thinking

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.

  Idris Elba

  Sexy, Men, Fans

  FaceBook post by Idris Elba from Oct 24, 2012

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• There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared by half the nation, is portrayed as evidence of hatred.

  Gary Bauer

  Men, Views, Hatred

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• Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Historical, Literature

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• When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

  John Donne

  Death, Book, Men

  John Donne (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• Climbing Jacob''s Ladder is a gutsy, glowing account of one man's encounter with a potent spiritual practice and how it transformed his life. This is a precious book - that rare combination of solid wisdom and good literature.

  Larry Dossey

  Spiritual, Book, Men

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• One man's magic is another man's gluey torture session.

  Jackie Earle Haley

  Men, Engineering, Magic

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• I killed one man to save 100,000.

  Charlotte Corday

  Men

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• Love, friendship, respect, admiration are the emotional response of one man to the virtues of another, the spiritual payment given in exchange for the personal, selfish pleasure which one man derives from the virtues of another man’s character.

  Ayn Rand

  Spiritual, Selfish, Character

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.28, Penguin

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• The NFL culture, the sports culture, has decided that they are more valuable than women. I've heard people laugh about keeping their pimp hand strong and keeping her in control so that she knows her place. But think about how evil that is for one man to think that he's actually more valuable than a woman, because as a human being your worth is immeasurable.

  Terry Crews

  Sports, Strong, Men

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• When Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross, it was not the blood of a martyr; or the blood of one man for another; it was the life of God poured out to redeem the world.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Men, Blood

  Oswald Chambers, Harry Verploegh (1990). “The Oswald Chambers Devotional Reader: 52 Weekly Themes”, Oliver-Nelson Books

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• If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?

  Davy Crockett

  Country, Men, Use

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• The only problem with one-man woman was that he was not a one-woman man.

  Rachel Gibson

  Men, Problem, One Woman

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• It is sometimes possible to change the attitudes of millions but impossible to change the attitude of one man.

  Edward Bernays

  Attitude, Men, Impossible

  Edward L. Bernays (1965). “Biography of an Idea: Memoirs of Public Relations Counsel”

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• When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Leadership, Opportunity, Men

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• One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Book, Reading, Men

  In Evelyn Abbott and Lewis Campbell (eds.) 'The Life and Letters of Benjamin Jowett' (1897) vol. 1, p. 248

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• There are women who do not like to cause suffering to many men at a time, and who prefer to concentrate on one man: These are the faithful women.

  Alfred Capus

  Men, Faithful, Suffering

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• Catastrophe was only narrowly averted. It was all due to the faith of one man! Yes, you who called us godless, we found our faith in Adolf Hitler, and through him found God once again. That is the greatness of our day, that is our good fortune!

  Robert Ley

  Greatness, Men, Fortune

  "Fate — I believe!". Speech on November 03, 1936. "Wir alle helfen dem Führer". Book by Robert Ley, pp. 103-114, research.calvin.edu. 1937.

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• The quotes are often poignant or funny (one man before the firing squad requests a bulletproof vest) and often don't register as much more than interesting historical documents from centuries past. But read in aggregate, all that pain piles up. Essentially, Elder has amassed a collection of what people say when they know they are going to die, the final product of what could be seen as psychological torture.

  Jonathan Messinger

  Pain, Past, Men

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• Any one man, woman, or child can be what they want to be;
  but be the right thing.

  Burning Spear

  Children, Men, Want

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• A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.

  Jose Bergamin

  Men, Doe, Slave

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