Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens… — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
In heterosexual love there's no solution. Man and woman are irreconcilable, and it's the doomed attempt to do the impossible, repeated in… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Oh beautiful for spacious skies, but now those skies are threatening. They're beating plowshares into swords for this tired old man we… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
Communism feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls. This shall not take root in the United States. — Emanuel Celler Copy Share Image
I grew up watching the Lakers and the Dodgers and the Rams, all local men's professional teams, and never really had any… — Julie Foudy Copy Share Image
Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A man who from the beginning has long been soaked in the languid atmosphere of a woman, the scent of her hands,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
As the mother of a son, I do not accept that alienation from me is necessary for his discovery of himself. As… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
When looking for a life partner, my advice to women is date all of them: the bad boys, the cool boys, the… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Since men cannot create new forces, but merely combine and control those which already exist, the only way in which they can… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdain'd For thee to disdain it. One… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Albus Severus," Harry said quietly, so that nobody but Ginny could hear, and she was tactful enough to pretend to be waving… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering… — Ralph Bunche Copy Share Image
There was an Old Man of the East, Who gave all his children a feast; But they all ate so much, and… — Edward Lear Copy Share Image
“I have loved many men, but only one in real life. All of the other men who have ever stolen my heart… — Alyse M. Gardner Copy Share Image
By complex ways, by looking deep into the dark well of the human soul, full of filth, somewhere at the very bottom… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Lo, as I gaze, the statured man, Built up from you large hand appears: A type that nature wills to plan But… — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is always man's ideas which drive his actions. This has, at times, resulted in great evil; but as we look around… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
What is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The health of the soul is something we can be no more sure of than that of the body; and though a… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate,… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The fool rushed to certain conclusions. The middling man approached them warily, and with circumspection. And the wise man, perceiving them from… — Thomas William Hodgson Crosland Copy Share Image
The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
Finally a woman confesses! Confess what? What women never allowed themselves to confess. What men always criticized on them: they only obey… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The men who have gotten women pregnant need to be accountable if we are. If we are going to jail, the men… — Neko Case Copy Share Image
Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
In every country the mountains are fountains, not only of rivers but of men. Therefore we all are born mountaineers, the offspring… — John Muir Copy Share Image
... until opportunity is as free from sex discrimination as the right to vote finally came to be, no man has any… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
I wanted people to feel me as a person. I do this music for the people, man, so at the end of… — Ace Hood Copy Share Image
A squirrel is the same as a can, when there's a bb gun in my hand. Can't you see that I am… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of Rulers, not… — George Washington Copy Share Image
His fair landlady was in despair. She would most willingly have made M. d'Artagnan her husband--such a handsome man, and such a… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image