Sheila Heti Quotes

We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.

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• I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Time
  • Men
  • Man

• 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
  • Men
  • Women
  • Death

• I want to do a make-up line for men.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Up
  • Men
  • Want

• Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone's responsibility.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Men
  • Women
  • Responsibility

• Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • World
  • Good
  • Men

• A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Time
  • Men
  • War

• I think there's a tendency for actors like myself, and I don't mean to generalize myself, but I've played 'men's men,' if you will, characters that are simmering rage and calculated. There's a trend not to play anything that is opposed to that.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Men
  • Think
  • Myself

• Historically, men have a hard time getting onboard with feminism, but I think that's changing.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Time
  • Men
  • Think

• I've known too many men who never quite felt married no matter how many wives they'd been through. Their own and otherwise.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Men

• God's hand is strange to us. He cares nothing for the moment, nothing for the feeble ambitions of men and women. He sees the road that flows onward forever.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • God
  • Men
  • Women

• No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

  

  Edvard Munch
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it.

  

  James Hillman
  • Men
  • Power

• There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

  

  Luc de Clapiers
  • Men
  • Hope
  • Fear

• Some of the best advice I've had comes from junior officers and enlisted men.

  

  Chester W. Nimitz
  • Men
  • Advice

• Women can learn from men and improve their 'chic.' A man wouldn't think of wearing a tight shoe or one that didn't harmonize with his suit.

  

  Elsa Schiaparelli
  • Men
  • Women

• I felt like a sinful person when I dated men and allowed them to feel for me in a way I knew I could never naturally feel for them. That felt wrong and a lie.

  

  Chely Wright
  • Men

• Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?

  

  Marsilio Ficino
  • Men
  • Society
  • Wonder

• Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

  

  James Joyce
  • Men
  • Women

• The praising thy mercy. There hath not been here; O supreme Ruler; There hath not been; there will not be, One so good as the Lord. There hath not been born in the day of the people Any one equal to God. And no one will acknowledge Any one equal to him. Above heaven, below heaven, There is no Ruler but he. Above sea, below sea, He created us.

  

  Taliesin
  • People
  • Good
  • God

• I'm always about optimism and exuberance. It's what I feel about fashion.

  

  Anna Sui
  • Fashion

• Serving our district and military families is a tremendous honor, and as our work continues in Congress, I will continue fighting for a strong national defense.

  

  Elise Stefanik
  • Work
  • Strong
  • Fighting

• ..the sort of white crepe dough with which the person is thickly buttered in the 'Haute Pâtes' series, Dubuffet made in 1946 was, by its proximity to the tar, dyed the color of burnt bread like a used Meerschaum pipe.

  

  Jean Dubuffet
  • Sort
  • Dough

• The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • People
  • Friends
  • Yourself

• We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.

  

  Sheila Heti
  • Men
  • Waste
  • Bores