Thomas Hardy Quotes
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
Quotes to Explore
-
While hereditary chiefs inhabit the apex of our traditional social systems, it would be a mistake to think they hold all the power. They aren't kings. They aren't dictators. They're answerable to their clans and their matriarchs. All decisions that affect our communities require lengthy, deliberate discussions and careful negotiation.
-
While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church and all of the expressions of that church will become essentially irrelevant.
-
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
-
The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.
-
I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.
-
To assume that someone's views are invariably influenced or shaped by his or her partner is lazy. It is an intellectual crutch we grope for when we do not have an effective counter to someone's argument.
-
When I was about 13, I met the coolest, chicest young woman I had ever seen. She was a neighbor of mine who became a fashion designer and had a small design studio. She taught me so many things about style and fashion. I had always loved making things, so when she told me about her career in fashion, I knew I had found my path.
-
I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.
-
We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.
-
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
-
No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
-
The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.
-
We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.
-
With any relationship that goes on and is productive over a long period, there have to be some sort of interlocking qualities in those personalities that make it possible to survive.
-
Frankly, I don't understand the monthly magazines that continue to publish news that is two months old and which has already been reported on ad nauseam online, including on their own websites.
-
If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
-
Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.
-
I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
-
I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.
-
No man achieves great success who is unwilling to make personal sacrifices.
-
Every parent knows this moment in a child's age when he or she needs your attention in a very specific way because it's the beginning and ending of the early life of imagination. It's such a responsibility.
-
A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories.
-
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
