Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.Simone de Beauvoir
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Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
E. Joseph Cossman -
Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
Frances Wright -
We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.
Vicente del Bosque -
I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.
Kate Millett -
Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team.
Fernando Torres -
My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.
Natasha Trethewey
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If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.
W. C. Fields -
I went to the U.S. for business because I thought America is a big consuming country, although it's not an overconsuming country.
Zhang Yin -
Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
Saint Augustine -
I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much.
Parker Stevenson -
The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider.
Lev Vygotsky -
How many more cars, clothes, toys and trinkets do we really need before we wake up and realize that half the world goes to bed every night with empty stomachs and naked bodies?
K. P. Yohannan
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Lucy: I don't understand men. Nettie: What is there to understand? If you feed 'em regular-like and give 'em a bit of 'sugar' now and then, they're easy enough. And if they don't behave, you just toss 'em out on their arses. That's what I always say.
Sabrina Jeffries -
The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day.
Charles William Eliot -
Selling his new book about this phony baloney war on Christmas, John revealed a very ugly side to himself. He is one of those people who think all religions but his are mistaken. You know, the way a lot of these religious nut bag terrorists think.
Keith Olbermann -
We're all forgotten sooner or later. But not films. That's all the memorial we should need or hope for.
Burt Lancaster -
No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.
Albert Camus -
'Larry Crowne' is about as bummed out a human being as one can be when he loses his job. What he is able to enjoy is something that may not be available to everybody. But it's about the value of being willing to get and willing to give good advice.
Tom Hanks
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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
Simone de Beauvoir -
You had to hide everything from men. They preferred not to know, they preferred to pretend that what happened at the hands of the boss miraculously didn’t happen to the women important to them and that—this was the idea they had grown up with—they had to protect her.
Elena Ferrante -
From the holy scriptures, heaven-sent lift will be found for heaven-sent duties.
Russell M. Nelson -
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
Simone de Beauvoir