Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not a stone goes through.Henry Ward Beecher
Quotes to Explore
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Great men marry great women.
Ilyasah Shabazz -
For me, men and women are different. A man is genetically gifted to pull more than a woman. But at the same time, I don't consider women to be any less than men. In fact, I feel we are far more intelligent than them.
Kajol -
During the nineteenth century, men died believing in the cause of royalty or republicanism. In reality, much of their sacrifice was rendered on the altar of the new nationalism.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
Octavia Spencer -
Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.
Zach Braff -
Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
Iris Murdoch
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Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.
Indra Devi -
A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
Samuel Butler -
It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
Wangari Maathai -
Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.
Natalie Imbruglia -
I've been dating younger men since my 20s, When I was 29, I dated someone 21... younger men are just more fun. I like their energy. I've always been kind of young for my age.
Dana Delany
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In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
Harri Holkeri -
I always say the classier cousin of 'Anchorman' is 'Mad Men,' because when you really look at it, why do people really love Don Draper in 'Mad Men?' He's just a terrible guy. But we know why he's terrible, and I think that's really key to why you can be sympathetic to a character.
Adam McKay -
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar Wilde -
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
Sallust -
Socrates gave a lifetime to the outpouring of his substance in the shape of the greatest benefits bestowed on all who cared to receive them. In other words, he made those who lived in his society better men and sent them on their way rejoicing.
Xenophon -
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
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Men are creatures with two legs and eight hands.
Jayne Mansfield -
Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.
Karen Armstrong -
Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
Vanity -
Anytime you test for a TV show, you have that bit of squeamishness entering into it because they lock you in for a number years.
Sam Huntington -
There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts and in certain circumstances there is still the chance of fire today.
Jackie Stewart -
Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not a stone goes through.
Henry Ward Beecher