One Man Quotes - Page 33

• Character has more effect than anything else. Let a number of loud-talking men take up a particular question, and one man of character, of known integrity and beauty of soul, will outweigh them all in his influence.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Integrity, Character, Men

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• All that causes one man to differ from another is a very slight thing. What is it that is the origin of beauty or ugliness, health or weakness, ability or stupidity? A slight difference in the organs, a little more or a little less bile. Yet this more or less is of infinite importance to men; and when they think otherwise they are mistaken.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Thinking, Differences

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• He who injures one man threatens many.

  Publilius Syrus

  Men

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• It is a maxim of cryptology that what one man can devise, another can unravel. This principle keeps armies of tax lawyers and accountants employed, but adds nothing to our national productivity.

  Walter Wriston

  Army, Men, Principles

  1986 Risk and Other Four-Letters Words.

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• For the most part we stupidly confound one man with another. The dull distinguish only races or nations, or at most classes, but the wise man, individuals.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Men, Race

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.110, Penguin

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• You may succeed in silencing me, but that silence comes at a price, you may succeed in silencing one man, but the howl of protest from around the world will reverberate, Mr. Putin, in your ears for the rest of your life.

  Alexander Litvinenko

  Life, Men, Silence

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• And that which yesterday was the novel opinion of one man, to-day becomes the general opinion of the majority.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Yesterday, Majority

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1913). “Essays, letters, misc. (General articles ; Famine articles ; The Dukhobors)”

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• I used to suffer particularly because the poor animals must endure so much pain and want. The sight of an old, limping horse being dragged along by one man while another man struck him with
  a stick he was being driven to the Colmar slaughterhouse - haunted me for weeks.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Horse, Pain, Animal

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• All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers, perfect where two men exist, perfect where there is only one man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Independent, Men, Two

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.260

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• Hips are absolutely key to every shape I do, because whatever you do at the top or bottom, you want to keep it slim and narrow on the hips. One thing is for certain: No one, man or woman, wants big hips.

  Tom Ford

  Men, Keys, Shapes

  Interview with Daisy Garnett, nymag.com.

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• I'm a one-man kind of girl, and I only want a man who's a one-woman man.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Girl, Men, Want

  "Ginnifer Goodwin Tells Katie Couric, 'I Don't Have to Be Anorexic to Be a Leading Lady'". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2011.

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• I just started doing this one-man show, and I wanted to be able to score it, so I bought a guitar, and got a keyboard and got a harmonica. I remember when I started that I didn't understand why a harmonica had different letters on them.

  Demetri Martin

  Men, Guitar, Different

  Source: www.isthmus.com

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• I think society is entitled to recognize marriage as an institution that involves one man and one woman.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Men, Thinking, Institutions

  Source: rutherford.org

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• I never met Barry Crump, but I was in an audience once for a play once. There was a drunken man at the back of the auditorium that was shouting during a performance of a one man play, and it turned out later on that was Barry Crump and he was in a state of inebriation.

  Sam Neill

  Men, Play, States

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

  Voltaire

  Philosophy, Men, Speak

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• The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Stupidity, Fortune

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1858). “The Works of Francis Bacon”, p.472

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• The difference between one man and another is not mere ability... it is energy.

  Tom Arnold

  Men, Differences, Energy

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• Dogma is the convictions of one man imposed authoritatively upon others.

  Felix Adler

  Men, Dogma, Oppression

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• Mastership hath many shifts whereby it striveth to keep itself alive in the world. And now hear a marvel: whereas thou sayest these two times that out of one man ye may get but one man's work, in days to come one man shall do the work of a hundred men - yea, of a thousand or more: and this is the shift of mastership that shall make many masters and many rich men.

  William Morris

  Men, Two, Alive

  William Morris (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)”, p.69, Delphi Classics

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• What we all have to admit to is that one man cannot save us. Unless we start energizing ourselves, all standing behind him with all of the force of our collective power then we can't expect mountains to be moved. And that is not exactly happening, we are a very comfortable population.

  Ani DiFranco

  Men, Mountain, Population

  Interview with Courtney Phenicie, cincymusic.com. November 23, 2017.

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• A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer - in the form of a review or something.

  Alan Lightman

  Men, Desert, Tents

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• When one man becomes more important than the country he's supposed to be leading, this will always create a problem.

  Martina Navratilova

  Country, Men, Important

  Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. December 5, 2007.

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• Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every asylum: one man will think he is the Governor of the Bank of England, another will think he is the King, and yet another will think he is God. Highly similar delusions, if expressed by educated men in obscure language, lead to professorships of philosophy; and if expressed by emotional men in eloquent language, lead to dictatorships.

  Bertrand Russell

  Kings, Philosophy, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Power: A New Social Analysis”, p.220, Routledge

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• From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.

  Albert Bushnell Hart

  Taken, Men, Orange

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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• If we are mark'd to die, we are enow
  To do our country loss; and if to live,
  The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
  God's will! I pray thee; wish not one man more.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, Loss, Men

  William Shakespeare (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.531

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