Amelia Barr Quotes

Politicians ... turn patriotism into shopkeeping and their own interest - men who care far more for who governs us than for how we are governed.. And what will be the end of such ways? I will tell you. We shall have a Democracy that will be the reign of those who know the least and talk the loudest.

Amelia Barr

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• Care
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• I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Care

• Men, in fact, are excited and looking forward to settling down and having families and being true partners with women in relationships that are full of excitement, unpredictability, adventure, and loyalty.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• I don't think men get enough flowers. A deeper pink or red peonies are my favorite. But I'll take anything, really.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Men
  • Red
  • Flowers

• To end the pervasive culture of sexual harassment, it can no longer be the norm that men look the other way. It only ends when men actively participate in ending it.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Men
  • Culture
  • End

• Men are often a lot less vindictive than women are, because we are rejected constantly every day.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Day

• Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Men
  • Women
  • Psychology

• They men have corrupted this God's supernatural order by making profane things what they should make of holy things, because in fact, we believe scarcely any thing except which pleases us.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • God
  • Believe
  • Men

• We have a decision to make every hour of every day, and that is whether to represent the sword or the shield. Democracy now.

  

  Amy Goodman
  • Decision
  • Democracy

• He alone is aware of the truth, and if all men were aware of it, there would be an end of life. In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. But his kingship is kingship over nothing. It brings no powers and privileges, only loss of faith and exhaustion of the power to act. Its world is a world without values.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Men
  • Women
  • Desire

• They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.

  

  Livy
  • Men
  • Women

• I've always felt that homophobic attitudes and policies were unjust and unworthy of a free society and must be opposed by all Americans who believe in democracy.

  

  Coretta Scott King
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Free

• Men have to be freed from the tortures of heavy clothing that covers everything but the face and hands.

  

  Elsa Schiaparelli
  • Men

• This idea that we should be best friends with our partner of the opposite gender leads toward tremendous frustration. Did you ever notice that while men often refer to their wives as best friends, women usually refer to another woman in that way?

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Men
  • Women
  • Friends

• Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?

  

  Marsilio Ficino
  • Men
  • Society
  • Wonder

• It's not exactly a big surprise that women mature earlier than men do. As a result, they tend to display better judgment, particularly when it comes to money.

  

  Jean Chatzky
  • Men
  • Women
  • Money

• I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

  

  Buddha
  • Time
  • World
  • Men

• I wasn't going to leave my men, and they were going to protect me.

  

  James McCloughan
  • Men

• The presidents and the founding fathers and all of the people we sort of raise up as false idols, we don't wrestle with the fact that many of these were brilliant men, but they were also men with deep prejudices against people of color, against indigenous people, against women.

  

  Clint Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Men

• It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that everyone was forsaking me and going away from me.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Lonely
  • Going Away
  • Forsaking

• The human mind gets used to strangeness very quickly if it does not exhibit interesting behavior.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Mind
  • Interesting

• For me, it's important to build good partnerships rather than score centuries. Once, you have those partnerships, you will also get centuries.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Good
  • Important
  • Me

• Politicians ... turn patriotism into shopkeeping and their own interest - men who care far more for who governs us than for how we are governed.. And what will be the end of such ways? I will tell you. We shall have a Democracy that will be the reign of those who know the least and talk the loudest.

  

  Amelia Barr
  • Men
  • Democracy
  • Care