One Man Quotes - Page 23

• What destroys one man preserves another.

  Pierre Corneille

  Men, Preserves

  Pierre Corneille (2015). “Chief Plays of Corneille”, p.176, Princeton University Press

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• I, who have been so many men in vain, want to be one man, myself alone. From out of a whirlwind the voice of God replied: I am not, either. I dreamed the world the way you dreamed your work, my Shakespeare: one of the forms of my dream was you, who, like me, are many and one.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Dream, Men, Self

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• To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.

  Heraclitus

  Men, Firsts, Rate

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• If she is pleasing to one man, a girl is taken care of.

  Propertius

  Girl, Taken, Men

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• Alongside the statement about one man's poison being another man's high, one might as well add that one man's saint can be another man's sore and one man's hero can turn out to be that man's biggest hangup.

  Ken Kesey

  Hero, Men, Saint

  Ken Kesey (1965). “Sometimes a great notion”

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• Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design.

  James Russell Lowell

  Hero, Men, Perfect

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.66

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• Truths are more likely to be discovered by one man than by a nation

  Rene Descartes

  Inspirational, Men, Nations

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• Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.

  Algernon Sidney

  Men, Masters, Force

  Algernon SIDNEY, Isaac Littlebury (1704). “Discourses concerning Government ... Published by I. Littlebury from an original manuscript of the author”, p.20

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• I'm here tonight, not as a Republican, not as a Democrat, but as an optimistic American who understands that we must come together behind the one man who can lead the way forward in these challenging times: my president, our president, Barack Obama!

  Charlie Crist

  Optimistic, Men, Way Forward

  Charlie Crist, Ellis Henican (2014). “The Party's Over: How the Extreme Right Hijacked the GOP and I Became a Democrat”, p.8, Penguin

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• I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights.

  Alan Autry

  Believe, Men, Rights

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

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• The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.

  Harold H. Greene

  Men, Law, Justice

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• From whence, then, could arise the solitary and strange conceit that the Almighty, who had millions of worlds equally dependant on His protection, should quit the care of all the rest, and come to die in our world, because, they say, one man and one woman had eaten an apple?

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Our World, Apples

  Thomas Paine (1852). “The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology”, p.60

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• Caught in the crossfire of a silent scream, where one man's nightmare is another man's dream.

  Bryan Adams

  Dream, Reality, Men

  Song: Heat Of The Night, 1993

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• What one man can do is dream. What one man can do is love. What one man can do is change the world.

  John Denver

  Dream, Peace, Men

  Song: What One Man Can Do, Album: Seasons of the Heart, 1982

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• The power of love is a curious thing, make one man weep, make another man sing. Change a hawk to a little white dove, more than a feeling, that's the power of love.

  Huey Lewis

  Love, Men, White

  Song: The Power Of Love

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• Killing one man is murder. Killing millions is a statistic

  Robert Kennedy

  Science, Men, Statistics

  Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “Rights for Americans: the speeches of Robert F. Kennedy”

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• In no part of the Constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not the executive department. ... The trust and the temptation would be too great for any one man.

  James Madison

  War, Men, Temptation

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1826). “The Federalist: On the New Constitution”, p.550

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• One man puts the fire out, the other lights the fuse.

  Steve Winwood

  Men, Fire, Light

  Song: Split Decision, Album: Back in the High Life

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• With his blessings from above, serve it generously with love. One man, one wife, one love, through life.

  Dean Martin

  Men, Blessing, Wife

  Song: Memories Are Made Of This

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• I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City.

  Bob Kane

  Art, New York, Men

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• You've read the Torah, right? So you know the Torah defines marriage as being between one man and one woman.

  Josh Mandel

  Men, Torah, One Woman

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• All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and changed into another being. I awoke and said at once that I had found the missing link for which I had been looking so long, and before I went again to sleep almost every detail of the story, as it stands, was clear to me. Of course, writing it was another thing.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Writing, Sleep, Men

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1993). “The complete short stories”

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• I have had stalkers over the years. The police deal with it but it is very scary. One man kept turning up where we filmed 'Countdown in Leeds,' which was scary. It was sad as he'd been sectioned and thought I was talking to him through the TV.

  Carol Vorderman

  Men, Talking, Years

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• If you look at the buildings, you'll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you go around and look at another facade and it looks as if it was designed by another man, you see.

  Minoru Yamasaki

  Men, Artist, Looks

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• You can just fight one man at a time.

  Lennox Lewis

  Fighting, Men

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