Him Quotes
29730 Him quotes by 9587 unique authors
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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a…
— Stendhal
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Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may…
— Bertrand Russell
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Life can become once more a grand adventure if we will surrender it to god. He brings one adventure to an end, only to open…
— Paul Tournier
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Every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for master-ship.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The child's conquest of independence begins with his first introduction to life. While he is developing, he perfects himself and overcomes every obstacle that he…
— Maria Montessori
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At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next…
— Maria Montessori
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... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers given him by nature. This…
— Maria Montessori
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Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and assert his mastery…
— Maria Montessori
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The strong man wants to be allowed to DO; the little man wants to stop him.
— Theodore Dreiser
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Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.
— Woodrow Wilson
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We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and…
— Bertrand Russell
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Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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How do cultures differ from one another? Above all, in their customs. Tell me how you dress, how you act, what are your habits, which…
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
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She will never win him, whose words had shown she feared to lose.
— Dorothy Parker
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Recalling the aftermath of her father's death from alcoholism at age 42, this memoirist reminisces: I couldn't deny that our life was so much better…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away.
— Tennessee Williams
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[Mrs. Teasdale]: He's had a change of heart. [Groucho]: A lot of good that'll do him. He's still got the same face.
— Groucho Marx
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Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.
— Harold Wilson
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God was bored by him.
— Victor Hugo
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He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him.
— Herbert Beerbohm Tree
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He was so narrow minded that if he fell on a pin it would blind him in both eyes.
— Fred Allen
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The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
— Cornelius Nepos
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I absolutely admit I had him in the handcuffs so he wouldn't go anywhere while I checked the computer... I certainly wasn't going to kill…
— Boy George
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Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him.
— Frank Moore Colby
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