Vita Sackville-West Quotes
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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.
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Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?
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Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.
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Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade.
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Really hairy backs on men turn me off. I'm not into the ape thing at all. Or beer bellies and flabby arms, either. Also, one random nose hair which is longer than the others... that's gross.
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Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
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Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.
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Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
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When I first ran, being a woman in politics was seen as both a negative and also a positive. You could attract more women voters, but on the other hand, a lot of men wouldn't vote for you.
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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.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
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Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.
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Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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We're going through the Olympics. We're watching women working as teams. We're watching men working as teams. We're watching all working as teams. We're proud of men and women getting medals. That's how the Navy should be working.
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The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell ain't half full.
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'I wish I had never been born,' she said. 'What are we born for?' 'For infinite happiness,' said the Spirit. 'You can step out into it at any moment...'
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Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.
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If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.
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A man and his tools make a man and his trade.
