One Man Quotes
683 One Man quotes by 508 unique authors
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The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed." "I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self."…
— John Fowles
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By the way, I'm not just one man with a chalkboard. I'm one man with four chalkboards.
— Glenn Beck
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Be he the first to stand or the last, a man must stand," the father had told his adoring son. "And if there is only…
— Andrew Vachss
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And what are you that, missing you, I should be kept awake As many nights as there are days With weeping for your sake? And…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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You thought you’d never give up your vocation, a voice whispered inside me. You thought you’d never even consider it. But you’ve met the one…
— Juliet Marillier
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Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the…
— Homer
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That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.
— John Fowles
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Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!
— Angela Carter
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Why did they believe? Because they saw miracles. Things one man took as chance, a man of faith took as a sign. A loved one…
— Brandon Sanderson
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Sin, he reflected, is not what it is usually thought to be; it is not to steal and tell lies. Sin is for one man…
— Shusaku Endo
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Not one man in a million would have allowed me the time without speaking. I opened my mind, let my gaurd down completely, relaxed. His…
— Charlaine Harris
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It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close, and its words…
— Paul Auster
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It doesn't matter if one man fights or ten thousand; if the one man sees he has no option but to fight, then he will…
— Hans Fallada
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If I come back to you now, can we be what we were before life’s uncertain rhythms tore us so far apart? If I return…
— Ellen Hopkins
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For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man.
— Khalil Gibran
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Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.
— Philippa Gregory
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Screw up my life?" He stared at me for a second and then said, deadpan, "I'm a five-foot-three, thirty-seven-year-old, single, Jewish medical examiner who needs…
— Jim Butcher
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Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed in words, a…
— Hermann Hesse
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Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there is no trace…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There was no limit to what one man might do, if he gave all, and held back nothing.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.
— Richard Matheson
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They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can say who the…
— Terry Pratchett
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Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?
— George R. R. Martin
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How can the strength of one man stand against Jake and an army of demons?" "He can," I countered, "if he has the power of…
— Alexandra Adornetto
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