Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man.Simone de Beauvoir
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I love the Americans. They are my best friends.
Idi Amin -
Women are amazing lovers.
Omari Hardwick -
The honor you have given us goes not to us as a crew, but to ... all Americans, who believed, who persevered with us. What Apollo has begun we hope will spread out in many directions, not just in space, but underneath the seas, and in the cities to tell us unforgettably what we will and must do. There are footprints on the moon. Those footprints belong to each and every one of you, to all mankind. They are there because of the blood, sweat, and tears of millions of people. Those footprints are the symbol of true human spirit.
Buzz Aldrin -
I participated with great honor in becoming one of the first to land on the moon, and now I am devoting and have devoted many years of my life to enabling Americans to lead international nations to permanence on the planet Mars.
Buzz Aldrin -
I 've been married so much in my life that I never really had lovers, so it's been a fun time. Hopefully the men are enjoying it as well.
Angelina Jolie -
Somehow love gives even to a dull man the knowledge of his lover's heart.
Anthony Hope
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I make that distinction only because I came to it strictly as someone who was just a lover of storytellers and cinematic storytellers.
Curtis Hanson -
From the dark end of the street - To the bright side of the road - We'll be lovers once again on the - Bright side of the road
Van Morrison -
I think the vast majority of Americans would have supported military action to stop the second plane from hitting the World Trade Center, if that had been possible. I would have been among them.
Marianne Williamson -
Women talk about love and silent about lovers, men - on the contrary: Speaking of mistresses, but are silent about love.
Marina Tsvetaeva -
Lovers are made by a kiss.
Emile Zola -
I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost
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When Europeans arrived on this continent, they blew it with the Native Americans. They plowed over them, taking as much as they could of their land and valuables, and respecting almost nothing about the native cultures. They lost the wisdom of the indigenous peoples-wisdom about the land and connectedness to the great web of life...We have another chance with all these refugees. People come here penniless but not cultureless. They bring us gifts. We can synthesize the best of our traditions with the best of theirs. We can teach and learn from each other to produce a better America.
Mary Pipher -
Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.
Norman Vincent Peale -
Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom.
Plato -
As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.
Plato -
Where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.
Plato -
The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.
Virginia Woolf
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I would that there was nothing in the world But my beloved that night and day had perished, And all that is and all that is to be, All that is not the meeting of our lips.
William Butler Yeats -
No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again.
Heraclitus -
He says-him as was here just now-'When Tom shut up the house, mate, to go to rack, the beds was left, all made, like as if somebody was a-going to sleep in every bed. And if you was to walk through the bedrooms now, you'd see the ragged mouldy bedclothes a heaving and a heaving like seas. And a heaving and a heaving with what?' he says. 'Why, with the rats under 'em.'
Charles Dickens -
Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man.
Simone de Beauvoir