Victor Hugo Quotes
In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.Victor Hugo
Quotes to Explore
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A lot of times, women complain about men around them. It's not always someone else's fault. If you're the common denominator in 57 different relationships that didn't work out, then maybe, just maybe... it's you!
Karrine Steffans -
Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
Lance Loud -
Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.
Gale Sayers -
Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar Wilde -
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Immanuel Kant
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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 -
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.
Abraham Lincoln -
War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.
Salvatore Quasimodo -
I'm fishing for men with a certain kind of bait, and the bait that I am offering is not a candy; it's a very specific thing that I'm offering, which is a deep gospel and a deep conversion.
Larry Norman -
On the whole, I have quite a low opinion of men.
Kate O'Mara -
'But you knew them to be evil men-''Was I to join them therefore? To let their acts rule my own? I will not make their choices for them, nor will I let them make mine for me!'
Ursula K. Le Guin
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If you say to me that men are so made that the strongest kicks the weakest in the teeth and then the strongest survive, and go on to argue that if you apply this to economics you will get a happy society, you have done an irreparable wrong as we know, as we have seen.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
She got out of the car in a smooth motion that he found attractive precisely because it did not seem designed to make men watch her do it.
Orson Scott Card -
It is very natural that clever young men should be rather odious. They are conscious of gifts that they do not know how to use. They are exasperated with the world that will not recognize their merit. They have something to give, and no hand is stretched out to receive it. They are impatient for the fame they regard as their due.
W. Somerset Maugham -
All men do the best they can. But none meet life honestly and few heroically.
Clarence Darrow -
For most men (till by losing rendered sager)Will back their own opinions by a wager.
Lord Byron -
The error arises from the learned jurists deceiving themselves and others, by asserting that government is not what it really is, one set of men banded together to oppress another set of men, but, as shown by science, is the representation of the citizens in their collective capacity.
Leo Tolstoy
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I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.
Idris Elba -
You are what you think.
Ben Carson -
I've worked hard my whole life, since I was a little kid. But now it's a point in my life now where I can just enjoy it, but at the same time I still need to work.
Pete Sampras -
I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.
Oscar Wilde -
How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him.
Socrates -
In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.
Victor Hugo