Marquis de Sade Quotes

Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?

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• If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Men
  • Women
  • Today

• I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Myself
  • Name
  • Dirty

• The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Book
  • True
  • New York

• At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • History
  • Vote
  • Opinions

• One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Always
  • Things
  • Still

• We at Fidelity view ourselves just as much a financial information processing company as an investment management firm. That may not be too newsworthy.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • May
  • Financial
  • Management

• When my parents were dating, they were very poor, so my dad couldn't take my mom out. They would go to the grocery store and pick out funny looking vegetables. When I grew up, we'd still go and find the ones with personality.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Funny

• I was born with an evil face.

  

  Barry Sloane
  • Evil
  • Born
  • Face

• When you guys are sleeping at night, I am out there working.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • Night
  • Working
  • Sleeping

• There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Gay
  • Diversity
  • Rights

• Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Man
  • Hate

• I don't own cable, but my TV came with a Netflix button.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Own
  • Netflix
  • Button

• Enthusiasm is the greatest asset you can possess, for it can take you further than money, power or influence.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Money
  • Power
  • Influence

• I can do more than just stand-up comedy, and the only way I'll be able to show that is if I do it myself. Because nobody trusts that I can do it.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • Myself

• If I go to Hollywood, I will have to start all over again – which is fine and makes me humble.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Start
  • Humble
  • Hollywood

• Rolf Ekeus, his appearance can deceive. He looks somewhere between an international diplomat and a mad professor. He's got that sort of shock of white hair and a slightly absent-minded way of speaking. But he's extremely sharp and very serious about power relationships.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Power
  • Hair
  • Serious

• I love Alton Brown's show 'Good Eats,' about the chemistry of food. It's really thoughtful.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Good
  • Love
  • Food

• Bradbury Fisher shuddered from head to foot, and his legs wobbled like asparagus stalks.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• I have seen you in the movies,And in those magazines at night.I saw you on the barstool,When you held that glass so tight.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Night

• Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.

  

  Jose Marti
  • Life
  • Done
  • Air

• If we buy a plant of a horticulturist we ask him many questions as to its needs, whether it thrives best in sunshine or in shade, whether it needs much or little water, what degrees of heat or cold; but when we hold in our arms for the first time a being of infinite possibilities, in whose wisdom may rest the destiny of a nation, we take it for granted that the laws governing its life, health, and happiness are intuitively understood, that there is nothing new to be learned in regard to it.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Wisdom
  • Destiny
  • Sunshine

• Neo-Hoodoo is the 8 basic dances of 19th century New Orleans' Place Congo- the Calinda the Bamboula the Chacta the Babouille the Conjaille the Juba the Congo and the VooDoo- modernized into the Philly Dog, the Hully Gully, the Funky Chicken, the Popcorn, the Boogaloo and the dance of great American choreographer Buddy Bradley.

  

  Ishmael Reed
  • Basic
  • Dances
  • Choreographer

• These kids are already hard. They don't need to be made harder. The issue is softening them up. They need to learn how to care about life again. They've lost that. That's what we need to give back to them.

  

  Edward Humes
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Learn

• Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?

  

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