Ariel Durant Quotes
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
Samuel Johnson -
I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.
Orison Swett Marden -
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
Samuel Lover -
Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
Samuel Goldwyn -
I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.
Kate Williams -
The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
Omar N. Bradley -
Go West, young man.
Aaron Burr -
One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
Ogden Nash -
This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.
Edouard Manet -
The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
Gabriel Marcel
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If you gonna challenge my ways, know my history. Don't put nobody in my face that don't know about me, or they here to write an article on someone they thought was hot when they was hot. Come on, man. I been hot.
Raekwon -
Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
W. Clement Stone -
Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
Finley Peter Dunne -
I was not in 'Iron Man 2,' but I take a daily iron supplement.
Dana Carvey -
Stevie Wonder is just one of those guys that completely delivers everything that you want to be true about Stevie Wonder. He's an amazing human being, and the fairytale exists with that man.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde
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Each movie was a challenge for me, as a man, as an actor. After each movie, something changed in my life, in my character...
Omar Sy -
It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.
Oscar Wilde -
He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!
Friedrich Nietzsche -
All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartended for two months before I was supposed to move to New York and then two months later I got the job as an understudy in 'Sister Act' and haven't looked back since.
Patina Miller -
She'd been a hard taskmistress - How can you be a grown-up if you can't look after yourself? she'd challenged - but she had taught him what no Greek mother ever taught a son: the basic humdrum skills required for independence.
Alison Fell -
No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.
Ariel Durant