Thomas More Quotes

I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.

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• The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Women

• I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Men
  • Movies
  • Tired

• As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Life
  • Men
  • Man

• Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.

  

  Ogden Nash
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• I love to wear lingerie. The problem is that men always rip it off too quickly. When women are dolled up in lingerie they feel sexy. So let us wear it for five minutes.

  

  Karen McDougal
  • Up
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• Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• A hundred thousand men were ledBy one calf near three centuries dead;They followed still his crooked wayAnd lost a hundred years a day;For thus such reverence is lentTo well-established precedent.

  

  Sam Walter Foss
  • Men
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• A monster, which the Blatant beast men call, A dreadfull feend of gods and men ydrad.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Men
  • Monster

• Note the men’s fear that if they reported this to the authorities, not only would they not be believed, they would be ridiculed.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Fear

• By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent. – page 97.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Children
  • Trying

• The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Life
  • Men

• Washington newspaper men know everything.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Men

• The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God.

  

  Antoni Gaudi
  • God
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• I think a good designer can exist everywhere and anywhere and all the time. It's all about being good, and I think that our job basically is to make women and men look good.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men

• Women are clearly the major consumers in far more than just female categories. It doesn't matter whether it is purchases of cars, cosmetics, or even products for men, female consumption power is the leading consumption power in the world. Any company that overlooks the woman as the decision maker is making a huge mistake.

  

  Andrea Jung
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• It's been great; the whole experience was surreal to me. To go from 'EastEnders' to 'X-Men' was like a dream. I could never have thought when I left 'EastEnders' that I would get this good a gig and so soon.

  

  Ben Hardy
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• I'm not saying it's easy, and it's definitely harder for women. Because there is definitely a double standard about gorgeous older men, and it's different for older women.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
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  • Women

• When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.

  

  Chief Joseph
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Hurt

• Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally.

  

  Maria Doyle Kennedy
  • Men
  • Women

• One thing is to escape from prison, but what the Texas 7 did that night crossed the line they should have never crossed.

  

  David Travis
  • Should
  • Prison
  • Lines

• Written in support of abolishing the Corn Laws, it became Elliott's most famous poem. The Peoples Anthem When wilt thou save the people Oh, God of mercy! When? Not kings and lords, but nations! Not thrones and crowns, but men! Flowers of thy heart, of God they are. Let them not pass like weeds, away Their heritage a sunless day! God save the people! When wilt thou save the people? Oh, God of mercy! When? The people Lord the people! Not thrones and crowns, but men! God save the people! Thine they are, Thy children, as thy angels fair, Save them from bondage and despair. God save the people!

  

  Ebenezer Elliott
  • God
  • Children
  • Support

• Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Listeners
  • Talks
  • Listens

• I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures, but more in examining all the nuances and idiosyncrasies of particular stories of everyday people. And if that doesn't happen, then I usually transplant myself and my own stories to a particular historical event. Which is why you'll see me, the first person pronoun, interacting in a song about Carl Sandburg, or you'll find my [sic] interacting with Saul Bellow. It's sort of a re-rendering of history and making it my own.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Everyday

• I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.

  

  Thomas More
  • Men
  • Should
  • Kings