Quintilian Quotes
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.Quintilian
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Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.
C. Wright Mills -
I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
Ralph Ellison -
This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
Walter Reisch -
I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.
Kate Williams -
How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.
Malin Akerman -
There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
Owen Feltham
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Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
Ralph Steadman -
Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.
Fatema Mernissi -
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.
Dakota Fanning -
In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.
Florence Kelley
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In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.
Abraham Lincoln -
I dig Steve Harvey: he's the suit man. I be checking him out.
Aaron Neville -
Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
H. L. Mencken -
Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
Karen Armstrong -
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
Warren Bennis -
I think a man is a man, and a man has a hairy chest, so let that be!
Yvonne Strahovski
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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
Walt Whitman -
And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.
Edmund Spenser -
I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
You don't often see Bear Grylls in a suit.
Bear Grylls -
Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
Victor Hugo -
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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