Christine de Pizan Quotes
Women particularly should concern themselves with peace because men by nature are more foolhardy and headstrong, and their overwhelming desire to avenge themselves prevents them from foreseeing the resulting dangers and terrors of war. But woman by nature is more gentle and circumspect. Therefore, if she has sufficient will and wisdom she can provide the best possible means to pacify man.
Christine de Pizan
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O most merciful Father, put far from me all my iniquities and all my offences; so that, by Thee made whole in body and in soul, I may be accounted worthy to approach the Holy of holies.
Saint Ambrose
I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
Barbara Kingsolver
The power structures in fashion used to be limited to western Europe and the States. That's changing.
Imran Amed
How could I stand by and watch my house on fire?
Kamisese Mara
Before the gods and after, always, are the streams. Caves, stones, hills. Trees. The earth. The darkness of the earth.
Ursula K. Le Guin
...the relatively unconscious man driven by his natural impulses because, imprisoned in his familiar world, he clings to the commonplace, the obvious, the probable, the collectively valid, using for his motto: 'Thinking is difficult. Therefore, let the herd pronounce judgement.'
Carl Jung
Here’s the bottom line. I promise you it’s entirely legal, and he can’t touch you for it. This is how the laws are written. They’re designed to protect the fortunes of people as rich as you, while throwing the main tax burden on people in much lower brackets.
Orson Scott Card
You always said the cards would never do you wrong.The trick you said was never play the game too long.A gambler's share.The only risk that you would take.The only loss you could forsakeThe only bluff you couldn't fake.
Bob Seger
There's no such thing as life without bloodshed. I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.
Cormac McCarthy
They say that bears Have love affairs And even camels, We're merely mammals Let's misbehave.
Cole Porter
The excitement of stepping onto a stage - there's nothing quite like it.
Lindsay Duncan
Policing has never been about public safety: its origins are rooted in social control, the denial of people's human rights, securing the U.S. borders, recapturing escaped, enslaved Africans, and upholding racist, homophobic, and transphobic laws.
Patrisse Cullors
My brother always teases me about my forehead: 'I could eat off it!'
Christina Ricci
I'm really, basically, nine, and I've always been that. I've never, ever allowed the child within me to die.
Jerry Lewis
Jim mentioned I was an ALEC member, and that's correct.
Don Nickles
People aren't paying to see the Kevin McHale show, they're paying to see the cast of 'Glee.'
Kevin McHale
'There's nothing more boring than a rock'n'roll star, someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative and has a massive ego. There's nothing more pointless.' - source
Thom Yorke
Radiohead
Women particularly should concern themselves with peace because men by nature are more foolhardy and headstrong, and their overwhelming desire to avenge themselves prevents them from foreseeing the resulting dangers and terrors of war. But woman by nature is more gentle and circumspect. Therefore, if she has sufficient will and wisdom she can provide the best possible means to pacify man.
Christine de Pizan
