One Might Say Quotes
32 quotes by 31 authors
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Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach.…
— Arne Jacobsen
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In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched…
— Nikolai Gogol
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One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a…
— Samuel Hahnemann
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One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion.
— Richard Wagner
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The regular division of the plane into congruent figures evoking an association in the observer with a familiar natural object is one of these hobbies…
— M.C. Escher
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Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, and delicately balanced to provide exactly the conditions required to…
— Arno Allan Penzias
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The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to…
— John Jay Chapman
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Men of Oregon, I invite you to become students of your events. Running, one might say, is basically an absurd past-time upon which to be…
— Bill Bowerman
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If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good.
— Norman Granz
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An educator's most important task, one might say his holy duty, is to see to it that no child is discouraged at school, and that…
— Alfred Adler
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One might say the computer is being used to program the child. In my vision, the child programs the computer, and in doing so, both…
— Seymour Papert
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The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men,…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to the…
— Guillaume Apollinaire
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A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, Oh, I don't like it.…
— Denzel Washington
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One might say that science itself, and civilization and art, are all about different orderings of the world - to contain it, and to make…
— Oliver Sacks
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One might say I have decided to marry the silence of the forest. The sweet dark warmth of the whole world will have to be…
— Thomas Merton
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I am not only convinced that what I say is false, but also that what one might say against it is false. Despite this, one…
— Robert Musil
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