Mary Oliver Quotes
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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
Daniel Burnham -
If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.
Yousuf Karsh -
All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.
Gal Gadot -
In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes.
Barry Unsworth -
In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.
Verne Troyer -
I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.
Randall Jarrell
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I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.
Halle Berry -
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
Ulysses S. Grant -
We did some research that showed that the very first word of your message that you send a girl - when we looked at men sending messages to women - the very first word can have a tremendous... can have a very accurate prediction of whether you're going to get a reply.
Sam Yagan -
Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.
Famke Janssen -
In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
Ida B. Wells -
Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.
Carl von Clausewitz -
I think it's very important for both women and men to see women working in a variety of capacities.
Maggie Hassan -
Common perceptions of female friendships are morning coffees discussing children, bags, periods and agreeing about the misdemeanours of men... mild, soft, nurturing relationships.
Samantha Harvey -
It turns out that if you're a 24-year-old whose only line on their resume says CEO, you are totally unemployable.
Sam Yagan -
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar Wilde -
The women are stepping up their degree of difficulty more than the men. A lot of us do the same dives as the men now.
Laura Wilkinson
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Come swish around my pretty punk And keep me dancing still That I may stay a sober man Although I drink my fill.
William Butler Yeats -
It's funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.
Hedy Lamarr -
He could have made a difference. He could have brought real jobs and development to hard working communities that need and deserve those resources. Instead, William Boyland, Jr. worked to glorify one person, and that was himself.
Loretta Lynch -
The scarily brilliant Romantic poet and visionary William Blake dared to say what many of us have perhaps thought but kept to ourselves: “A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.
Brian D. McLaren -
What men build, in the name of security, is built of straw.
Mary Oliver