John Motson (John Walker Motson) Quotes
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One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.
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By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own.
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I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.
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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.
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If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.
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Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.
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Throughout the history of Iceland, men have been lost at sea; every family in Iceland is connected to that kind of story.
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.
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What I've never understood is why some women use plastic surgery to make themselves more attractive to men. The most beautiful woman is someone who's happy and is always smiling.
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Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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'Tis very strange Men should be so fond of being thought wickeder than they are.
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All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps; perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen the gulfs between them by the attempt.
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'When a man lies, he murders some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives.', (Paul Gerhardt, 1607-1676). 'All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the Kingdom of Salvation take me home?', (Burton).
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Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.
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One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.
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Hardworking men and women deserve not only job security, but also a paycheck when they need to take time off to care for a loved one.
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I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.
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The judiciary is entitled to finally resolve a dispute. Not every decision is right.
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How fortunate we didn't have these animal tests in the 1940s, for penicillin would probably not have been granted a licence, and possibly the whole field of antibiotics might never have been realised.
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The closer you get to the truth, the clearer becomes the beauty, and the more you will find worship welling up within you. That's why theology and worship belong together.
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The Eastern Europeans invested too many of their hopes in the notion that somehow or other the missile shield, even if directed at Iran, would reinforce their security links with the U.S. vis-à-vis Russia.
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It looks like a one man show here, although there are two men involved.
