E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Quotes

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

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• Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

  

  F. H. Bradley
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• All men would be tyrants if they could.

  

  Daniel Defoe
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• I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.

  

  Carl Honore
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• There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.

  

  J. C. Ryle
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• Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.

  

  Harriet Harman
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• I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
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• This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.

  

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

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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• I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.

  

  Lana Turner
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• Fifty-nine cents. For years, I wore a button - '59 cents.' Many of my colleagues wore it also. The purpose was so that people would come up and ask, 'What does '59 cents' mean?' One could then launch into a discussion about how women working full time in the U.S. earn 59 cents for every dollar earned by men.

  

  Karen DeCrow
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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
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• 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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• He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

  

  Immanuel Kant
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• Necessity has been a priceless spur which has helped men to perform miracles against incredible odds.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.

  

  Malcolm X
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• Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.

  

  Natalia Ginzburg
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• That's one thing you hear in my voice today. I could yodel from one octave to another octave. It always fascinated me.

  

  Aaron Neville
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• One of the things I've heard musicians say that's true is, 'I would play for free. I would play music forever, but you have to pay me to travel.' I know we're always going to make music. The traveling part - that is the most wear and tear on any human.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
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• I'm not one to be like, 'What is everybody doing? Let me do that!' I just do what I want.

  

  Bebe Rexha
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• I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
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• The frenzy in New York does not lie in the architecture, but in the intersections between the buildings, the traffic, the innumerable things going on, the mixture of cultures. The architecture forms a solid and static foundation for all that speed. The tops of the skyscrapers are narrow and fantastic, but lower down they are sturdy and unambiguous.

  

  Alvaro Siza Vieira
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• Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

  

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
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