One Man Quotes - Page 20

• 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 Voltaire is another man's Screech.

  Dennis Miller

  Men, Another Man

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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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• 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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• If one man tells you to murder, you get a jail cell - if another man tells you to murder, you get medals and a pension.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Men, Cells, Jail

  "Against the Gods?: A Concise Guide to Atheism and Agnosticism (The Costs of False Ethics)". Book by Stefan Molyneux, 2010.

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• We do not homeschool to avoid wicked people. We homeschool so we wicked people can talk all day about the one Man who wasn’t wicked.

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.

  Men, People, Wicked

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• As the Holy Trinity, our God is One Being, although Three Persons, so, likewise, we ourselves must be one. As our God is indivisible, we also must be indivisible, as though we were one man, one mind, one will, one heart, one goodness, without the smallest admixture of malice - in a word, one pure love, as God is Love. That they may be one, even as We are One (John 17:22).

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Heart, Men

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• The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra.

  Max Roach

  Men, Orchestra, Drummer

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• One man's constant is another man's variable.

  Alan Perlis

  Men, Variables, Constant

  Alan J. Perlis (1975). “Introduction to computer science”

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• One Man's food is another Man's Poison

  Lucretius

  Men, Poison, Another Man

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• Floyd Skloot’s Revertigo is a beautifully-written, moving account of one man’s off kilter life. Who would have imaged a memoir exploring months of extreme vertigo and decades of neurological turbulence would be filled with so much joy and optimism? This gentle, wise, and perceptive memoir never fails to surprise.

  Dinty W. Moore

  Wise, Moving, Men

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

  Jean Reno

  Men, Play, Shows

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

  Marilyn Monroe

  Sexy, Men, Thinking

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• He who made us would have been a pitiful bungler, if he had made the rules of our moral conduct a matter of science. For one man of science, there are thousands who are not. What would have become of them? Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong, merely relative to this.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Religion, Matter

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States”, p.216

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• It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important. "If it is not, what is?" He could not endure those remembered words.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Fate, Men, Important

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1967). “Three Hainish Novels”

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• Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art, and with all those who, simultaneously, previously, or subsequently, receive the same artistic impression. Art is a human activity- that one man consciously by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that others are touched by these feelings and also experience them.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Mean, Men

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• The old idea of a good bargain was a transaction in which one man got the better of another. The new idea of a good contract is a transaction which is good for both parties to it.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Party, Men, Ideas

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• To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film.

  Edward Zwick

  Children, Heart, Son

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Huts they made then, and fire, and skins for clothing, And a woman yielded to one man in wedlock... ... Common, to see the offspring they had made; The human race began to mellow then. Because of fire their shivering forms no longer Could bear the cold beneath the covering sky.

  Lucretius

  Men, Sky, Fire

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Anthony M. Esolen (1995). “De rerum natura”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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• One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric.

  John Marshall Harlan II

  Men, Vulgarity Is, Another Man

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• The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Party, Home, Men

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• Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Marriage, Men, Years

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• Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Marriage, Men, Support

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• God says, 'One woman, one man,' and everyone says, 'Oh, that's old hat, that's that old Bible stuff,'" he said. "But I'm thinking, well let's see now. A clean guy - a disease-free guy and a disease-free woman - they marry and they keep their sex between the two of them. They're not going to get chlamydia, and gonorrhea, and syphilis, and AIDS. It's safe.

  Phil Robertson

  Sex, Pride, Gay

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• Don't forget honey. Never let one man worry your mind. Find 'em, fool 'em and forget 'em.

  Mae West

  Men, Worry, Mind

  "Fictional character: Tira". "I'm No Angel", www.imdb.com. 1933.

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