- Individual
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- Nov 07, 2020
He Quotes
Third-person praise, from the field to the set.
This page collects quotes that describe someone else directly — a scouting comment on a hitter's known weakness, and warm praise for a footballer's skill and standing among peers. For identity-focused sayings, see Identity quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yeltsin was admirable but flawed, noble but tainted, but in his own negligent grandeur, he undermined his own real achievements - and accelerated their ruin.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The vanishing of David Tang is like the unthinkable diappearance of a magnificent palace on a mythical mountaintop. He was a dreammaker, pianist, adventurer, writer, entrepreneur, scholar, connoisseur, and a great friend.
- Himself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mr. Putin presents himself as a czar - and like any czar, he fears revolution above all else.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Denis Healey refused to contribute an article to the 'Guardian' about his intentions, and was punished by the electorate - and then all Labour MPs - for his presumption in assuming they already knew everything about him. He became famously the best prime minister we never had. Perhaps.
- Colleague
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- Nov 07, 2020
My colleague Bill Keegan has written a very short book ('Saving the World?') on an unlikely topic - he is the first economist to try to rehabilitate Gordon Brown.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
The political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the more allies he needs.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the morning, Capra would arrive with twenty-or-so pages in which he'd written down all of his ideas. Most were terrible, then all of a sudden there would be one which was astounding.
- Handled
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite player would probably be Steve Yzerman. He played in Detroit. I really liked the way he played and the way he handled himself.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have just discovered the beautiful poetry of Soren Ulrik Thomsen. Danish is not the strongest of languages, but he uses it very well.
- Career
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked under Francis Schmidt, and he was the biggest influence on my coaching career.
- Marrow
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- Nov 07, 2020