It is a bizarre thought that in this [U.S. 2008] presidential cycle we could have had a woman in the White House… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity as a whole is changeful, mystical,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we accept the Greek's definition of the idiot as an altogether private man, then we must conclude that many American citizens… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Haie! Haie! These were the swift to harry; These the keen-scented; These were the souls of blood. Slow on the leash, pallid… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead -somewhere these two loves come together. To love a… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
At the same time as woman was becoming the showcase for wealth and caste, while men were slipping into relative anonymity and… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“This desire to govern a woman—it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together… But I do love you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So you see,' said Stepan Arkadyich, 'you're a very wholesome man. That is your virtue and your defect. You have a wholesome… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
And to think, there are still places in the world where man has not been, where he has left no footprints, where… — Evan Tanner Copy Share Image
[Heraclitus] did not require humans or their sort of knowledge, since everything into which one may inquire he despises [as being] in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is appearances, characteristics and performance that make a man love an airplane, and they, are what put emotion into one. You… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The earth, in its natural, uncultivated state was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race."… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Charity is a cop-out so traditionally female in its apparent self-effacement that there seems resonant comfort in it. We're no longer supposed… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor defense of their profession,… — Yvor Winters Copy Share Image
I learned from my two years' experience that it would cost incredibly little trouble to obtain one's necessary food; that a man… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic… — Plato Copy Share Image
A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I've been married to the same man - even after the separation - longer than most people in this business. I'm sick… — Samantha Bond Copy Share Image
Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The invisible dilemma is that men face the very real problem that they don't feel comfortable bringing these issues up and they… — James Levine Copy Share Image
There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The First World War began because one man was shot. The Second World War began because of a mad German dictator. Who… — Ronald Lauder Copy Share Image
The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
Immortality is a belief grounded upon other men's sayings, that they knew it supernaturally; or that they knew those who knew them… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
A woman is human. She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man. Likewise, she… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Every step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which logicians have sought to separate… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
The idea which man forms of beauty imprints itself throughout his attire, rumples or stiffens his garments, rounds off or aligns his… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I would by no means call myself an expert or say that I'm extremely into superhero movies, but I've pretty much seen… — Jonathan Lipnicki Copy Share Image
I came along and was a teenager in the Depression, and nobody had jobs. So I went out hitchhiking, when I met… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I have said that the modern man, and especially the modern American, however much 'know-how' he may have, has very little 'know-what' — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
A 99-year-old man is filing for divorce from his 96-year-old wife, making them the world's oldest divorced couple. It's got to be… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bull, was like… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within… — John Muir Copy Share Image