There is an enormous pressure placed on gay novelists because they are the only spokespeople. The novelist's first obligation is to be… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The much-quoted immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary occurred but once so that the world might know that Almighty God, when He… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
But, gee," the other nurse says, "what on earth would MAKE a man want to do something like disrupt the ward for,… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
In a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
What is a policeman made of? He, of all men, is once the most needed and the most unwanted. He's a strangely… — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
Never [enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The socialist system will eventually replace the capitalist system; this is an objective law independent of man's will. However much the reactionaries… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character, and, thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and… — Plato Copy Share Image
The more that man is able to distinguish himself from the rest of creation, the more he becomes conscious of himself as… — Emil Brunner Copy Share Image
In my freshman year of college, when a male professor asked the class, "Who here identifies as a feminist?" Only one girl… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
This has been far more than three men on a mission to the Moon; more still than the efforts of a government… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
At the beginning God said: "Let there be light," and light was, and light is, and light shall be. So Christianity is… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
No man can be a compleat Lawyer by universalitie of knowledge without experience in particular cases, nor by bare experience without universalitie… — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
Man hardly comes in more than two varieties, wherever he is, whatever he does: workers and pimps ... they're either one or… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
We are working women. Also, we have the problem of children, of men, to take care of our houses, so many things.… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
Man is a culture, nothing but a culture! Question your culture! Just like monkeys picking lice from their skin, get rid of… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
My old man said, 'Follow the van, Don't dilly-dally on the way!' But I dillied and dallied, dallied and dillied, Lost the… — Marie Lloyd Copy Share Image
I heard doctors revived a man who had been dead for 4-1/2 minutes. When they asked him what it was like being… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
If you want to get to know me, you have to get off the baseball field. Because when I'm on the field,… — Jeff Kent Copy Share Image
When men no longer have the least fear of saying something untrue, they very soon have no fear whatsoever of doing something… — Theodor Haecker Copy Share Image
“But isn't it likely that everyone in this world...has killed someone or other on their way to the top?...All I wanted was… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according,… — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
Reality confronts man with a great many musts, but all of them are conditional the formula of realistic necessity is You must,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It can never be bad to have a foundation as a man - a black man - in a time when women… — Usher Copy Share Image
This life is but a dream. A state of sleep but how unfortunate that man's eyes open only when they are about… — Wasif Ali Wasif Copy Share Image
Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think I'm probably a very sad man wrapped in a very joyful package, and I think I'm very resilient, and I… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
It's perfectly fair that you can't be a Roman Catholic priest unless you're a man. It seems right that the reach of… — Trevor Phillips Copy Share Image
While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings… — Ginny Brown-Waite Copy Share Image
This stupid celebrity thing is just a consequence of being good at what you do. I mean, no one would photograph David… — Nick Moran Copy Share Image
I have always admired men and women who used their talents to serve the community, and who were highly respected and admired… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“Men are the enemy in much the same way that some crazed boy in uniform was the enemy of another like him… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in… — K.J. Parker Copy Share Image
The right to work, I had assumed, was the most precious liberty that man possesses. Man has indeed as much right to… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
To realize the relative validity of one's convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilized man from a… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just as he… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Two things seemed pretty apparent to me. One was that in order to be a pilot a man had to learn more… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image