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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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 -
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
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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 -
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
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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 -
Women are choosing to stay single rather than marry men who can't step up and provide.
Hanna Rosin -
I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
Imogen Cunningham
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In times of old, as we are told, When men more child-like at the feet Of Jesus sat, than now, A chivalry was known more bold Than ours, and yet of stricter vow, Of worship more complete.
Margaret Fuller -
Always been purple. Like I remember being in the first grade, looking up at the color charts, and saying, 'Man, purple is the best color, man, it's the best color, it just is the best color.' I have a lot of purple shirts and stuff, I'm always wearing purple.
Brian Elwin Haner Jr. Avenged Sevenfold -
He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.
C. S. Lewis -
We hear a lot in this country about family, and 'American Family' just shows us a portrait we haven't seen as much of yet. 'American Family' lets us know that being American isn't about the color of your hair or eyes or skin: it's really a state of mind.
Esai Morales -
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