W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.

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• I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Gender

• Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • Art
  • Looking

• Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Road
  • Language
  • Creator

• When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Time
  • Hope

• Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.

  

  Sam Peckinpah
  • Love
  • Fall
  • Find

• To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Play
  • Minds
  • Weak

• I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Job
  • Creativity
  • Creative

• Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Time
  • Different
  • School

• I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Love
  • Running
  • Speak

• Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Today
  • Discipline
  • Outside

• If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • You
  • Guitar
  • Construction

• I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.

  

  Vera Miles
  • Men
  • Love
  • Young

• Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Up
  • Freedom

• The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Man
  • Failure
  • Cost

• The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Audience
  • Said
  • Reach

• Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • World
  • Opportunity

• I have 10 children. I've got my eighth grandchild in the oven with Kimberly. I have all these wonderful kids.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Wonderful

• I would really like to play someone contemporary, as I've done lots of period pieces. I would love to play an American bimbo or a grimy Londoner. But I'm probably more suited in people's minds to playing a corseted victim.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Play
  • Like
  • Victim

• I did not have a personal relationship with Jesus until I met my nanny, who helped me through a failing marriage and raising my two boys in a New York City apartment. She showed me by example what it was like to be able to talk to Jesus and bring all my cares and worries to Him. That was in 1990.

  

  Kim Alexis
  • She
  • Relationship
  • City

• I'm terrible at practical jokes. I do them too well, so they're not funny. I end up saying, 'Oh, no, I'm joking, I'm joking.'

  

  Anna Torv
  • Up
  • Funny

• Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Dumb
  • Marry
  • Arthur Miller

• I like Aurora, 'Sleeping Beauty,' because she's just sleeping and looking pretty and waiting for boys to come kiss her. Sounds like a good life - lots of naps and cute boys fighting dragons to come kiss you.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Life
  • Good
  • She

• When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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