Saul Bellow Quotes
But a man's character is his fate... and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.Saul Bellow
Quotes to Explore
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
Taslima Nasrin -
There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
Octavia Spencer -
What drew me to the character is that Roberto Duran is the son of an American soldier - a Marine - stationed in Panama and a humble Panamanian mother, and he was abandoned.
Edgar Ramirez -
In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
Ida B. Wells -
When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
Dale Carnegie -
Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.
Rachel Weisz -
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.
Viktor E. Frankl -
I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.
Yousuf Karsh -
In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
Walter Lippmann -
If it's anything I can't stand, it's yes-men. When I say no, I want you to say no, too.
Jack Warner -
Usually I'm pretty myopic. It's hard for me to multi-task, so to speak. If I'm in a show and I'm creating a character, I'm just completely into that. It's really hard for me to do anything else like write music. I have to sort of shut down different sides of my head and just focus.
Idina Menzel
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I am drawn to those parts; I like the tough girls because they are not tough. It's a veil; it's a disguise. It's defenses. At the core, everybody is human, everybody is fragile, everybody is terrified, and the fear is what propels you to be tough.
Tatiana Maslany -
In any character I ever play, whether she's good or bad or whatever, my most important thing is heart.
Laura Prepon -
We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.
Walter Winchell -
The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.
Samuel George Morton -
Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
Samuel Johnson -
A monster, which the Blatant beast men call, A dreadfull feend of gods and men ydrad.
Edmund Spenser
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I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.
Billie Jean King -
The tires were scorching hot, in fact I burned my fingers on one.
Malcolm Campbell -
This was 1978, when flying was still an occasion, a special grand event that took planning and care. I worked as a TWA flight attendant then. I stood in my Ralph Lauren uniform at the boarding door and smiled at the passengers through lips coated with lipstick that perfectly matched the stripe on my jacket. Mostly, the passengers smiled back.
Ann Hood -
It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try to write a novel. To be clear: I did not decide to become a novelist. Honestly, it never crossed my mind that I could actually earn a living as a professional novelist.
William Landay -
But a man's character is his fate... and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.
Saul Bellow