O Quotes
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“One man’s pass is another man’s catch.”
“One man’s sacrifice can light up another man’s life and flood it to its fullest possibility.”
Source: Jadu
“One man’s torture is another man’s kink.”
Source: Psycho
“One man’s weakness is another man’s mercy.”
Source: Mermaids in Paradise
“One man said, "I looked at my brother through the microscope of criticism, and I said, "How coarse my brother is." Then I looked at my brother through the telescope of scorn, and I said, "How small my brother is." Then I looked into the mirror of truth and I said, "How like me my brother is."”
“One man saying that everything is wrong can command coast-to-coast attention in living color, a power not given to an absolute monarch a century ago.”
“One man sees a riselka: his life forks there. Two men see a riselka: one of them shall die. Three men see a riselka: one is blessed, one forks, one shall die.”
“One man sees a riselka: his life forks there. Two men see a riselka: one of them shall die. Three men see a riselka: one is blessed, one forks, one shall die. One woman sees a riselka: her path comes clear to her. Two women see a riselka: one of them shall bear a child. Three women see a riselka: one is blessed, one is clear, one shall bear a child.”
“One man should not be afraid of improving his posessions, lest they be taken away from him, or another deterred by high taxes from starting a new business. Rather, the Prince should be ready to reward men who want to do these things and those who endeavour in any way to increase the prosperity of their city or their state.”
“One man starving puts a crimp in my evening.”
“One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.”
“One man thinks before he acts. Another man thinks after he acts. Each is of the opinon that the other thinks too much.”
Source: As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
“One man thinks justice consists in paying debts, and has no measure in his abhorrence of another who is very remiss in this duty and makes the creditor wait tediously. But that second man has his own way of looking at things; asks himself Which debt must I pay first, the debt to the rich, or the debt to the poor? the debt of money or the debt of thought to mankind, of genius to nature? For you, O broker, there is not other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred;”
Source: The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“One man, thirteen pints of lager, two doner kebabs”
Source: Bent Cop: Johnny Takes Out The Trash
“One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.”
Source: Sir Thomas Moro's Utopia
“One man told me, ‘My tooth is hurting’. Why would ‘your’ tooth hurt you? This is considered a contradicting statement. What is yours, it will never give you pain and what is not yours will always give you pain. If you expound on this, you will have the solution!”
“One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter, "Beware. You will never get out of this world alive."”
“One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its nature, he will suffer great pain. Another man understands that nature of the river is to change constantly, regardless of his likes and dislikes, and therefore he does not suffer. To know existence as this flow, empty of lasting pleasure, void of self, is to find that which is stable and free of suffering, to find true peace in the world.”
“One man who saw through his own eyes and thought with his own brain. Such men may be rare, they may be unknown, but they move the world.”
“One man with a broom cannot clean the whole world but if the whole world starts knowing that that man has an idea of cleaning the whole world, then this idea can come true! One man is one man, but one idea is one thousand men or one million or one billion men!”
“One man with a genuine experience with God is worth more than a library full of arguments.”
“One man with a gun can control 100 without one.”
“One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.”
“One man with an idea in his head is in danger of being considered a madman: two men with the same idea in common may be foolish, but can hardly be mad; ten men sharing an idea begin to act, a hundred draw attention as fanatics, a thousand and society begins to tremble, a hundred thousand and there is war abroad, and the cause has victories tangible and real; and why only a hundred thousand? Why not a hundred million and peace upon the earth? You and I who agree together, it is we who have to answer that question.”
Source: William Morris on Art and Socialism
“One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.”
Source: Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963
“One man with courage is a majority.”
“One man with courage makes a majority.”
“One man with truth on his side is stronger than a majority in error, and will conquer in the end.”
Source: History of the Christian Church
“One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.”
“One man wrote me, saying, 'You know who you are? You're nothing but a Captain Bly pissing up a drainpipe!'”
“One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“One man's accuracy is another man's bullshit.”
“One man's antinomy is another man's falsidical paradox, give or take a couple of thousand years.”
Source: The Ways of Paradox, and Other Essays
“One man's bane is another's bliss.”
“One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.”
“One man's ceiling is another man's floor.”
“One man's constant is another man's variable.”
Source: Introduction to computer science
“One man's consumption becomes his neighbor's wish.”
Source: The affluent society
“One man's creativity is another's brain damage.”
“One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic”
“One man's faith is another man's delusion”
Source: Feet Of Clay: The Power and Charisma of Gurus
“One man's fantasy is another man's job.”
“One man's fish is another man's poisson.”
Source: Vesuvius Club
“One Man's food is another Man's Poison”
“One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity.”
“One man's gospel truth is another man's blasphemous lie. The dangerous thing about people is the way we'll try to kill anyone whose truth doesn't agree with ours.”
“One man's idea of perfect order is another man's chaos.”
Source: Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel
“One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity.”
“One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.”
“One man's larceny is another's just distribution of goods.”
Source: The Tempting of America