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  • With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.

    Team   Player   Men  
    "Ice Cube and Kevin Hart pair up for a ride". Interview with Sonia Saraiya, www.avclub.com. January 17, 2014.
  • A tree, freshly rooted, may be pulled up by one man on his own. Give it time, and it will not be moved, even with a crane

    Wisdom   Islamic   Men  
  • There is only one man in the world and his name is All Men. There is only one woman in the world and her name is All Women. There is only one child in the world and the child's name is All Children.

    Children   Men   Names  
    Carl Sandburg (2015). “Honey and Salt”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Love, friendship, respect, admiration are the emotional response of one man to the virtues of another, the spiritual payment given in exchange for the personal, selfish pleasure which one man derives from the virtues of another man’s character.

    Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.28, Penguin
  • It is not one man nor a million, but the spirit of liberty that must be preserved. The waves which dash upon the shore are, one by one, broken, but the ocean conquers nevertheless. It overwhelms the Armada, it wears out the rock. In like manner, whatever the struggle of individuals, the great cause will gather strength.

    Ocean   Struggle   Men  
  • In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.

    Men   Thinking   Long  
  • There've been times it's been just impossible to find a negative or whatever. But I'm basically just a one man operation, and so things get messed up. I don't have a filing system that's worth very much.

    Source: www.americansuburbx.com
  • The only way to be an actor is to find ways to work as an actor, even if that means doing a one-man show by a river.

    Mean   Men   Rivers  
    Source: aalbc.com
  • The First World War began because one man was shot. The Second World War began because of a mad German dictator. Who knows how a third could start. There are also people who think that the war has been going for a long time.

    War   Men   Thinking  
    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get.

    Money   Work   Men  
    "Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood". Book by Peter Carlson (p.146), 1983.
  • 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 little bit distorted, a little foolish...It is perfectly fine with me that what for one man is precious wisdom for another sounds like foolery.

    Men   Justice   Sound  
  • Although only one man may be receiving the favors of a woman, all men in her presence are warmed.

    Men   Receiving   Favors  
    "Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen", 1966.
  • The real wonder is not that one man should be a genius, but that every man should not be.

    Real   Men   Genius  
    Mary Hunter Austin, Maxwell Aley (1925). “Everyman's genius”
  • A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government.

    Character   Men   Rights  
    Lysander Spooner (1867). “No Treason: No. 1-”, p.7
  • You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year.

    Men   Years   Giving  
    1946 Last words.
  • The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

    Party   Men   Guilt  
  • One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

    Twitter post from Mar 27, 2013
  • A minor fief had risen up against their cruel and avaricious lord, with hundreds of people surrounding his Manor house, threatening to burn it to the ground. The panicked nobleman's message for help was answered by the arrival of a single Ranger. Aghast, the nobleman confronted the solitary cowled figure. 'They sent one Ranger?' he said incredulously. 'One man?' 'How many riots do you have?' the Ranger replied.

    Men   People   House  
  • We are serving no one man, we are serving our country.

    Country   Men   One Man  
  • Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own character. ... In comedy we fall afoul of one another. Comedy depends on social life, on our behavior in groups. In tragedy you can observe one human against the gods. In comedy it's one human versus other humans and often one man (or woman if I'm writing it) against her own worst impulses.

  • I struggle with enormous discrepancies: between the reality of motherhood and the image of it, between my love for my home and the need to travel, between the varied and seductive paths of the heart. The lessons of impermanance, the occasional despair and the muse, so tenuously moored, all visit their needs upon me and I dig deeply for the spiritual utilities that restore me: my love for the place, for the one man left, for my children and friends and the great green pulse of spring.

  • The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.

    Men   Fog   Elephants  
    Terry Pratchett (2012). “Dodger”, p.132, Random House
  • Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom of one man seems nonsense to another.

  • I would rather receive one percent of the income of 100 men, than 100% of the income of one man.

    Men   Income   Percent  
  • One man's creativity is another's brain damage.

    Creativity   Men   Brain  
  • My ex-wife was trying to be nice once, so she took me to a concert in Los Angeles. I went with her to Symphony Hall, and the orchestra was playing. When the show started, the spotlight was sharp on this one man (Andres Segovia) and he had sombrero on and his guitar propped up like this and, oh man ... he was a master ! - I really heard it. That one guitar sounded like a whole orchestra to me.

    Music   Nice   Men  
  • The one man in the room who was as big as his poems, huge, with hulk and dynamic chunks of words.

    Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.212, Anchor
  • As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another

    Tim Tebow (2016). “Shaken Bible Study: Discovering Your True Identity in the Midst of Life's Storms”, p.47, WaterBrook
  • Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.

    Money   Men   Years  
    Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.109
  • War is then not a relationship between one man and another, but a relationship between one State and another, in which individuals are enemies only by accident, not as men, nor even as citizens, but as soldiers; not as members of the fatherland, but as its defenders. Finally, any State can only have other States, and not men, as enemies, inasmuch as it is impossible to fix a true relation between things of different natures.

    War   Men   Soldier  
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