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.
F. H. Bradley -
Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?
Calvin Klein -
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.
Karrine Steffans -
Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade.
Zhu Rongji -
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.
Nadine Velazquez -
Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
Lance Loud
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Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.
Zach Braff -
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.
Francesca Annis -
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.
Tammy Duckworth -
Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
Harri Holkeri -
Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.
Malcolm de Chazal
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Victor Hugo -
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.
Zebulon Pike -
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Mahatma Gandhi -
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.
Patricia Schroeder -
Beauty is what attracts men naturally, but really I think we dress for other women, not necessarily for men. We torture ourselves every single day, and I wish that we wouldn't because we should all just get along, really.
Odette Annable -
Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.
Kate Fox
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Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up. I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men - white male corporate society. So why wouldn't a woman want to rebel against that?
Kim Gordon Sonic Youth -
We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more coarse and rude in the mind than the precious metals, or more slavish and dirty than the people that dig and work them? And yet they defile our minds more than our bodies, and make the possessor fouler than the artificer of them. Rich men, in fine, are only the greater slaves.
Seneca the Younger -
Success isn't something you achieve by accident, but rather by design.
David H. Murdock -
Powell repressed the wave of exasperation that rose up in him. It was not exasperation with Chooka. It was anger for the relentless force of evolution that insisted on endowing man with increased powers without removing the vestigial vices that prevented him from using them.
Alfred Bester -
A man and his tools make a man and his trade.
Vita Sackville-West