Single Man Quotes - Page 4

• All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Men, Hands, Desire

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• I want to record history through the destiny of individuals who often belong to the least wealthy classes. I do not want to show war in general, nor history with a capital H, but rather the tragedy of a single man, of a family.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, War, Destiny

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• As if one crime of such nature, done by a single man, acting individually, can be expiated by a similar crime done by all men, acting collectively.

  Lewis E. Lawes

  Men, Acting, Done

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• The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Literature, Married

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• No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres, are history's organic agents, its yeast. But revolutions are made by fanatical men of action with one-track mind, geniuses in their ability to confine themselves to a limited field. They overturn the old order in a few hours or days, the whole upheaval takes a few weeks or at most years, but the fanatical spirit that inspired the upheavals is worshiped for decades thereafter, for centuries.

  Boris Pasternak

  Kings, War, Men

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• There exists in nature a force which is immeasurably more powerful than steam, and by means of which a single man, who knows how to adapt and direct it, might upset and alter the face of the world.

  Eliphas Levi

  Powerful, Mean, Men

  Eliphas Levi (2015). “Transcendental Magic”, p.41, Eliphas Levi

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• Renaissance cowboy/raconteur Pop Wagner ...deadpan funny ...his presence is like meeting Woody Guthrie and Will Rogers riding a single, many colored horse. Pop is a kind of 'textile genius' who is able to spin, at once, both yarn and rope.

  Ron Miles

  Horse, Cowboy, Yarn

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• But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man.

  Hugh Grant

  Disappointment, Becoming, Pursued

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• Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to evaluate the conduct of our rulers. This political judgment, moreover, is not simply or primarily a right, but like self-preservation, a duty to God. As such it is a judgment that men cannot part with according to the God of Nature. It is the first and foremost of our inalienable rights without which we can preserve no other.

  John Locke

  Wisdom, Gun, Men

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• There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Men, Poor

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• Happiness is peace after strife, the overcoming of difficulties, the feeling of security and well-being. The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

  H. L. Mencken

  Happiness, Marriage, Men

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• the three most common myths of modern romance: 1. Single men would prefer being married. 2. Married men actually leave their wives. 3. Men who wear gold chains give gold rings.

  Linda Sunshine

  Men, Giving, Wife

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• In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself.

  Confucius

  Home, Men, Faults

  Confucius (1964). “The Analects of Confucius”

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• True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Crush, Equality, Men

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• To sum up: I am the man who when the concern pressed him and his way was straitened and he could find no other device by which to teach a demonstrable truth other than by giving satisfaction to a single virtuous man while displeasing ten thousand ignoramuses - I am he who prefers to address that single man by himself, and I do not heed the blame of those many creatures.

  Maimonides

  Education, Science, Men

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• It doesn't take the most powerful nations on Earth to create the next global conflict. Just the will of a single man.

  Vladimir Makarov

  Powerful, Men, Earth

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• Its assimilation requires the reconstruction of prior theory and re-evaluation of prior fact, an intrinsically revolutionary process that is seldom completed a single man and never overnight

  Thomas Kuhn

  Men, Evaluation, Facts

  Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.7, University of Chicago Press

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• Wait a minute. You expect me to stay overnight in a house with four single men? Sean grinned. We're perfect gentlemen, Kim. Everyone knows that. Don't let us worry you. I'm not worried about my reputation, I'm worried about the state of the bathrooms.

  Jennifer Ashley

  Men, Perfect, Worry

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• Single men and determined groups have been the only makers of space in which man could walk free.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Men, Space, Groups

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• The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Good Man, Wicked

  "The City of God Against the Pagans (Book IV)". Book by Saint Augustine, 426 AD.

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• Jowett, in his day, did probably more than any other single man to let some fresh air into the exhausted atmosphere of the [Oxford] common rooms, and to widen the intellectual horizons of the place.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Men, Air, Oxford

  "Asquith". Book by Roy Jenkins, p. 22, 1964.

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• Bachelors begin at thirty-six. Up till this age they are regarded as single men.

  Jilly Cooper

  Men, Age, Six

  Jilly Cooper (2011). “Men And Supermen”, p.22, Random House

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• The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Men, Years

  Jane Austen (2014). “Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen”, BookRix

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• You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Graduation, Confidence

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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• A single man of one, only pebbles can be moved, but many men together, stands no mountain that can't move.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Moving, Men, Together

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