One Man Quotes - Page 9

• There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.

  Gail Sheehy

  Men, Denial, Prostitution

  Gail Sheehy (1973). “Hustling: Prostitution in Our Wide Open Society”, New York : Delacorte Press

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• Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.

  Nelson Mandela

  4th Of July, Men, Political

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.107, Pan Macmillan

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• One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Wise, Men

  1929 Joe Proteus.The Apple Cart, act 1.

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• All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

  William Shakespeare

  Birthday, Time, Player

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

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• A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.

  John Selden

  Kings, Men, Meat

  'Table Talk' (1689) 'Of a King'

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• The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Mean, Men, Fortune

  Song: World on Fire, Album: Afterglow, 2003

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• There's been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that's simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we've won when I score 10.

  Kobe Bryant

  Inspirational, Basketball, Men

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• Never, ever regret or apologize for believing that when one man or one woman decides to risk addressing the world with truth, the world may stop what it is doing and hear. There is too much evidence to the contrary.

  Robert Fulghum

  Truth, Regret, Believe

  Robert Fulghum (2011). “Maybe (Maybe Not): Second Thoughts from a Secret Life”, p.228, Ballantine Books

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• You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

  Charles Bukowski

  Change, Romantic, Men

  1967 Tales of Ordinary Madness,'Too Sensitive'.

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• The best way to make a sort of peace, a fragile armistice to be sure, but precious all the same, with men, officers or not, is to let them bask and wallow in childish self-glorification. There’s no such thing as intelligent vanity. It’s an instinct. And you’ll never find a man who is not first and formenost vain. The role of admiring doormat is about the only one that one man is glad to tolerate in another. With these soldiers I had no need to tax my imagination.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Intelligent, Men, Vanity

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• One man sees a riselka: his life forks there.  Two men see a riselka: one of them shall die.  Three men see a riselka: one is blessed, one forks, one shall die. One woman sees a riselka: her path comes clear to her.  Two women see a riselka: one of them shall bear a child.  Three women see a riselka: one is blessed, one is clear, one shall bear a child.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Children, Blessed, Men

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• One thing about being a stand-up is it's a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You're the producer, writer, director, and the actor. You just gotta be out there and perform and give your all. It's such an honest form of art that it just taught me so much, and it kind of prepared me for manhood at an early age.

  Nick Cannon

  Art, Men, Giving

  Interview with Jasper Anson, www.askmen.com. September 18, 2009.

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• Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either. So do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't.

  Kirk Cameron

  Gay, Men, Garden

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

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• President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case - and most Americans would agree with him on this - then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people?

  Tony Campolo

  Men, People, President

  "A Possible Compromise on the Gay Marriage Controversy" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2011.

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• Let ... individuals make the most of what God has given them, have their neighbors do the same, and then do all they can to serve each other. There is no use in one man, or one nation, to try to do or be everything. It is a good thing to be dependent on each other for something, it makes us civil and peaceable.

  Sojourner Truth

  Helping Others, Men, Volunteer

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• And what are you that, missing you, I should be kept awake As many nights as there are days With weeping for your sake? And what are you that, missing you, As many days as crawl I should be listening to the wind And looking at the wall? I know a man that’s a braver man And twenty men as kind, And what are you, that you should be The one man in my mind? Yet women’s ways are witless ways, As any sage will tell,— And what am I, that I should love So wisely and so well?

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Wall, Night, Men

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.55, Library of America

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• You thought you’d never give up your vocation, a voice whispered inside me. You thought you’d never even consider it. But you’ve met the one man who could change your mind. He is your perfect complement. He is Cathal to your Clodagh; he is Bran to your Liadan. No wonder you conjured up those images. No wonder they make you weep.

  Juliet Marillier

  Giving Up, Men, Voice

  Juliet Marillier (2011). “Seer of Sevenwaters”, p.303, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another.

  Homer

  Daughter, Men, Feet

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• I have told the story I was asked to tell. I have closed it, as so many stories close, with a joining of two people. What is one man's and one woman's love and desire, against the history of two worlds, the great revolutions of our lifetimes, the hope, the unending cruelty of our species? A little thing. But a key is a little thing, next to the door it opens. If you lose the key, the door may never be unlocked. It is in our bodies that we lose or begin our freedom, in our bodies that we accept or end our slavery. So I wrote this book for my friend, with whom I have lived and will die free.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Book, Men, Doors

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• That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.

  John Fowles

  Men, Evil, Tragedy

  John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

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• Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!

  Angela Carter

  Men, Fire, Different

  Angela Carter (1984). “Nights at the circus”, Vintage

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• Why did they believe? Because they saw miracles. Things one man took as chance, a man of faith took as a sign. A loved one recovering from disease, a fortunate business deal, a chance meeting with a long lost friend. It wasn't the grand doctrines or the sweeping ideals that seemed to make believers out of men. It was the simple magic in the world around them.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Believe, Men, Simple

  Brandon Sanderson (2008). “The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn”, p.654, Macmillan

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• Sin, he reflected, is not what it is usually thought to be; it is not to steal and tell lies. Sin is for one man to walk brutally over the life of another and to be quite oblivious of the wounds he has left behind.

  Shusaku Endo

  Lying, Men, Sin

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• It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend is generally made by the majority of people in the village, who are sane. The book is generally written by the one man in the village who is mad.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Book, Men, People

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• That one man scorned and covered with scars
  Still strove with his last ounce of courage
  To reach the unreachable star.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Inspirational, Courage, Stars

  "Fictional character: Miguel de Cervantes". "Man of La Mancha", 1965.

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