Mary Beard Quotes
We have never escaped a certain male cultural desire for women's silence.
Mary Beard
Quotes to Explore
-
Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach.
Karen DeCrow
-
What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
Salman Khurshid
-
I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
Mahesh Babu
-
I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
Nate Diaz
-
Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.
Tamsin Egerton
-
I love simplicity.
Zendaya
-
Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
Venus Williams
-
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
M. H. Abrams
-
I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
-
Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
Fidel Castro
-
The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
Ban Ki-moon
-
I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.
Zig Ziglar
-
I wasn't unsympathetic as a defense attorney, but my strong feelings for the victims were getting in my way. I identified too much with the victim.
Marcia Clark
-
I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to perk me up. The audience picks me up enough. That's the total God's truth.
Barbara Lynn
-
I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible.
Danica McKellar
-
I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Abraham Lincoln
-
We have never escaped a certain male cultural desire for women's silence.
Mary Beard
