One Man Quotes - Page 3

• One man saying that everything is wrong can command coast-to-coast attention in living color, a power not given to an absolute monarch a century ago.

  Walter Wriston

  Men, Color, Attention

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• This unrequited love, to me it's nothing but a one-man cult/And cyanide in my styrofoam cup

  Frank Ocean

  Unrequited Love, Men, Styrofoam

  Song: Bad Religion, Album: Channel Orange, 2012

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• If you are one of earth’s inhabitants, how blest your father, and your gentle mother, blest all your kin. I know what happiness must send the warm tears to their eyes, each time they see their wondrous child go to the dancing! But one man’s destiny is more than blest—he who prevails, and takes you as his bride. Never have I laid eyes on equal beauty in man or woman. I am hushed indeed.

  Homer

  Mother, Children, Father

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• One man’s “ugly” is another man’s “beautiful.

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  Sherry Argov

  Beautiful, Men, Ugly

  Sherry Argov, “Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl - A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship”

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• 2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other for a change.

  Douglas Adams

  Friday, Nice, Men

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• One man and a dozen fools would govern better than one man alone.

  Ben Chifley

  Leadership, Men, Dozen

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• One man cannot make a team.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Philosophy, Work, Cutting

  Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.110, Open Road Media

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• To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Educational, Men, May

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• Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Money, Men, Years

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.109

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• What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others

  Lucretius

  Food, Men, Poison

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• Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Military, Army, Men

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• I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Men, Praying

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• Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither that other man nor anybody else has a right to object.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Judging, Principles

  Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1977). “Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings”, p.124, Stanford University Press

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• The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.

  James Russell Lowell

  Real, Men, Experience

  James Russell Lowell (1888). “The English Poets: Lessing, Rousseau: Essays”

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• One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Men, Insanity, Genius

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• We are on strike against martyrdom—and against the moral code that demands it. We are on strike against those who believe that one man must exist for the sake of another. We are on strike against the morality of cannibals, be it practiced in body or in spirit. We will not deal with men on any terms but ours—and our terms are a moral code which holds that man is an end in himself and not the means to any end of others.

  Ayn Rand

  Believe, Mean, Men

  Ayn Rand (1957). “Atlas Shrugged”, E P Dutton

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• The mystery of one man is too immense and too profound to be explained by another man.

  Henri Nouwen

  Men, Profound, Mystery

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society”, p.62, Image

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• One man's trash is another man's treasure is a third man's raw materials for their planet-buster earthquake machine.

  Mira Grant

  Men, Earthquakes, Raw Materials

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• That seemed to handle it. That was it. Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off with him. Now go and bring her back. And sign the wire with love. That was it all right. I went in to lunch.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Girl, Men, Lunch

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.122, Hamilton Books

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• How can the strength of one man stand against Jake and an army of demons?" "He can," I countered, "if he has the power of Heaven on his side. After all, Christ was a man." "He was also the Son of God, there's a difference." "Do you think they could have crucified him if he wasn't human?" I asked. "He was flesh and blood, just like Xavier. You've been here so long you underestimate the power of humans. They're a force of nature.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Son, Army, Men

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• Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?

  George R. R. Martin

  Wall, Men, Curiosity

  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.174, Bantam

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• They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can say who the new Tyrant is. One man ... one vet. ... Everyone has ... the vet. Except for women, of course. And children. And criminals. And slaves. And stupid people. And people of foreign extraction. And people disapproved of for, er, various reasons. And lots of other people. But everyone apart from them. It's a very enlightened civilization.

  Terry Pratchett

  Country, Children, Stupid

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• The universe is one being. Everything and everyone is interconnected through an invisible web of stories. Whether we are aware of it or not, we are all in a silent conversation. Do no harm. Practise compassion. And do not gossip behind anyone's back - not even seemingly innocent remark! The words that come out of our mouth do not vanish but are perpetually stored in infinite space, and they will come back to us in due time. One man's pain will hurt us all. One man's joy will make everyone smile.

  Elif Safak

  Hurt, Pain, Men

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• There was no limit to what one man might do, if he gave all, and held back nothing.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Men, Might, Limits

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