John Quincy Adams Quotes

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.

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• There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Two

• As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Men
  • Child
  • Fact

• As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• Really hairy backs on men turn me off. I'm not into the ape thing at all. Or beer bellies and flabby arms, either. Also, one random nose hair which is longer than the others... that's gross.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Men
  • Hair
  • Beer

• Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Men
  • Never
  • Something

• Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Up
  • God
  • Men

• Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Men
  • Women
  • Modeling

• I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Men
  • Women
  • Strong

• It's successful, middle-class Arab men and women, professionals with seemingly happy family lives, who are prepared to go to paradise for a greater cause. That's terrifying.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Men
  • Man
  • Me

• It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Men
  • Girl
  • Action

• Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• I always say the classier cousin of 'Anchorman' is 'Mad Men,' because when you really look at it, why do people really love Don Draper in 'Mad Men?' He's just a terrible guy. But we know why he's terrible, and I think that's really key to why you can be sympathetic to a character.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Love
  • Character

• Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Adversity
  • Prosperity

• When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Men
  • Live

• There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.

  

  Abbey Lincoln
  • People
  • Life
  • Men

• A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.

  

  Otto Bauer
  • Men
  • Character
  • Community

• If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.

  

  Florynce Kennedy
  • Men
  • Abortion
  • Pregnant

• What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?

  

  Albert Camus
  • Men
  • Real
  • Power

• The essential fact of Christianity is that God thought all men worth the sacrifice of his son.

  

  William Barclay
  • Men
  • Son
  • Sacrifice

• I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for adulation is lacking.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Believe
  • Possible
  • Praise

• I think we're much harder on ourselves than other people are. This is not a unique situation here... But I never liked the 'Celtic Tiger' as a phrase.

  

  Martin Naughton
  • People
  • Unique
  • Tiger

• If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Fun
  • Serious
  • Doing

• In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.

  

  John Quincy Adams
  • Men
  • Charity