One Man Quotes - Page 27

• It’s easier to look sexy when you’re thinking of one man in particular.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Sexy, Men, Thinking

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• I'd like to do plays, maybe a one man show.

  Jean Reno

  Men, Play, Shows

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• One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Opinion, Conviction

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• The soul and eternity of one man depends upon the voice of another

  Horatius Bonar

  Men, Voice, Soul

  Thomas Boston, Horatius Bonar (2006). “Art of Manfishing & Words to Winners of Souls”, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Men, India, Blame

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• When I reflect that one man, armed only with his own physical and moral resources, was able to cause this land of Canaan to spring from the wasteland, I am convinced that in spite of everything, humanity is admirable. But when I compute the unfailing greatness of spirit and the tenacity of benevolence that it must have taken to achieve this result, I am taken with an immense respect for that old and unlearned peasant who was able to complete a work worthy of God.

  Jean Giono

  Spring, Taken, Greatness

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• One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.

  Dennis Miller

  Men, Another Man

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• The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.

  Arthur Helps

  Greatness, Men, Quality

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• One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Literature, May

  Persuasion ch. 13 (1818)

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• One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Men, Style

  Jane Austen (2008). “Emma: By Jane Austen”, p.571, MobileReference

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• Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when afar You rise, remember one man saw you, Knew you, and named a star!

  Robert Browning

  Stars, Failure, Men

  'Popularity' (1855) st. 1

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• By patience and determination, rather than by a harsh upsetting of tradition, we move toward our national aspirations.... This is the way we get things done in America. One man tells another, does what he can, till the sum of these efforts grows into a national aspiration-a precious goal. Then occurs our miracle of democracy: because the groundwork has been surely laid, the goal is already within our grasp.

  Newton B. Drury

  Determination, Moving, Men

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• One man's mind differs from another man's mind far more widely than all women's minds differ from all men.

  M. Carey Thomas

  Men, Mind, Another Man

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• By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may make advances in morality (which is the science, by way of eminence, of living well and being happy), but all mankind together is making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older. So that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man who never ceases to live and learn.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Race, Progress

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• Dictatorship played a decisive role in the North's successful effort to maintain the Union by force of arms...one man was the government of the United States...Lincoln was a great dictator....This great constitutional dictator was self appointed.

  Clinton Rossiter

  War, Successful, Men

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• One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship.

  Milton Friedman

  Opportunity, Men, Another Man

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• I think I had a more European outlook about the body and sex. The body is in no way dirty, and sex is something beautiful to give to and share with a lover. It has nothing to do with promiscuity, because I only believe in being in love with one man at a time.

  Dorothy Stratten

  Beautiful, Sex, Believe

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• Most women are one man away from welfare.

  Gloria Steinem

  Equality, Men, Feminist

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• In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Lying, Reality, Men

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• Be careful how you do one man a pleasure which must needs occasion equal displeasure in another. For he who is thus slighted will not forget, but will think the offence to himself the greater in that another profits by it; while he who receives the pleasure will either not remember it, or will consider the favour done him less than it really was.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Men, Thinking, Needs

  Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”

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• All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

  Germaine Greer

  Death, Women, Independent

  Germaine Greer (1985). “Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility”

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• To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

  Martha Graham

  Beautiful, Dance, Men

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• In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

  Judy Garland

  Love, Good Night, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.

  Robert Frost

  Lonely, Loneliness, Men

  Robert Frost, Thomas Fasano (2008). “Selected Early Poems of Robert Frost”, p.145, Coyote Canyon Press

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• When I have a difficult subject before me - when I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of teaching a well established truth except by pleasing one intelligent man and displeasing ten thousand fools - I prefer to address myself to the one man, and to take no notice whatever of the condemnation of the multitude; I prefer to extricate that intelligent man from his embarrassment and show him the cause of his perplexity, so that he may attain perfection and be at peace.

  Maimonides

  Teaching, Men, Intelligent

  Moses Maimonides (2012). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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