One Man Quotes - Page 11

• Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Character, Men, Bricks And Mortar

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nathan Haskell Dole, George Henry Lewes, Thomas Carlyle, John Storer Cobb (1902*). “The Works of Goethe”

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• Neither ancients nor moderns who were good men have done such ,a deed that, after promising ,a daughter to one man, they have her to another, Nor, indeed, have we heard, even in former creations, of such ,a thing as the covert sale of a daughter for a fixed price, called a nuptial fee.

  Guru Nanak

  Daughter, Men, Good Man

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• [T]he only real moral crime that one man can commit against another is the attempt to create, by his words or actions, an impression of the contradictory, the impossible, the irrational, and thus shake the concept of rationality in his victim.

  Ayn Rand

  Real, Men, Thinking

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.374, Hamilton Books

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• Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Hypocrisy, Silence

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.109, Taylor Trade Publications

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• Show me one man who knows his own heart, to him I shall belong.

  Jewel

  Heart, Men, Show Me

  Song: Kiss The Flame, Album: Spirit, 1998

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• I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.

  O. Winston Link

  Men, Railroads, Bigs

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• But on one man's soul it hath broken, / A light that doth not depart; / And his look, or a word he hath spoken, / Wrought flame in another man's heart.

  Arthur O'Shaughnessy

  Heart, Men, Light

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• A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Power, Should Have

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• There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you - in places where winning means survival and defeat means death - and that man is John McCain

  Sarah Palin

  Mean, Winning, Men

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit, he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares 'God wills it thus.' Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  God, Men, Order

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• No one has the right to use America's rivers and America's Waterways, that belong to all the people. as a sewer. The banks of a river may belong to one man or one industry or one State, but the waters which flow between the banks should belong to all the people.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Men, Rivers, America

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• In war, men are nothing, one man is everything.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Men

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• It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Men, Quality

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• Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.

  Harper Lee

  Men, Hands, Bottles

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Men, Land, Slavery

  Ulysses S. Grant, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Crane, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle: Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.1365, Modern Library

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• In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Men, Political

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• In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. There could be only a quarter or a third as many congressmen or senators, and we would pick better ones then. But it's the system that we have always used, and there is no use getting all overcome with perspiration over it. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Men, Overcoming

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• People complain of the unequal distribution of wealth [but it is a far greater] injustice that any one man should have the power to write so many brilliant essays... There is no one who writes like [Thomas Huxley].

  Charles Darwin

  Writing, Men, Thinking

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• Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Ocean, Science, Men

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• Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one man.

  Thomas Browne

  Art, Self Esteem, Self Confidence

  Sir Thomas Browne, Claire Preston (1995). “Selected Writings”, p.155, Psychology Press

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• It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big

  Charles Garfield

  Men, Band, Genius

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• The outer is easier, and the outer is objective. For example, one man, Thomas Alva Edison, discovers electricity and the whole of humanity uses it; there is no need for everyone to discover it again and again. Inner growth is a totally different phenomenon. A Gautama Buddha may become enlightened, but that does not mean that everybody else becomes enlightened. Each individual has to find the truth for him or herself.

  Rajneesh

  Motivational, Mean, Men

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• It is Mystery - the mystery any one man or woman can feel but not understand as the meaning of any event - or accident - in any life on earth.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Men, Events, Earth

  Eugene O'Neill (1987). “Eugene O'Neill, comments on the drama and the theater: a source book”, G. Narr Verlag

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• To one who said, "I do not believe that there is an honest man in the world," another replied, "It is impossible that any one man should know all the world, but quite possible that one may know himself."

  William Shenstone

  Lying, Believe, Men

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• The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Sin, Conversation

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.2329, e-artnow

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