Henrik Ibsen Quotes
A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
Henrik Ibsen
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
Dan O'Brien
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mahatma Gandhi
I'd call my music rock but with pop hooks.
Taylor Momsen
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
Washington Irving
Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.
Camille Paglia
People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.
Victoria Pendleton
Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
Baruch Spinoza
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
Samuel Butler
What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
Oprah Winfrey
The trouble with some cooking is that the real flavours get cancelled out by the wine, cream, and butter sauces.
Kate O'Mara
My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it.
Zach Anner
Dogma not only blinds its protagonist, but it muzzles all other opposition.
Maajid Nawaz
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
President Trump is quick to attack American students, immigrants, women, the LGBT community, journalists, and our international allies but he is either too weak or too ignorant to stand up to white supremacists and others who spew hatred.
Gavin Newsom
I know I'm as comfortable doing period as I am contemporary. I suppose we grow up with it in a sense, in the theater. We get to put on costumes and play a lot of period dramas or plays so we're exposed to it a little bit more I think because of our theatrical background.
Ioan Gruffudd
In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a 'Public Safety Complex' around the corner from what used to be our hokey Andy Griffith-esque fire station.
Rachel Maddow
Are men and women different creatures? Do we feel things differently? Being a man, I can't know what a woman feels.
Samuel Barnett
The manifestation of the Divinity must be understood to be in greater degree in those who are honoured, respected, and obeyed by a large following, than in those who have gained no such influence.
Ramakrishna
