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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• Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Attention
  • Perfect
  • Health

• We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • History
  • Culture
  • Literature

• If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Life
  • Beauty
  • Sad

• I'm very happy with the choices I've been making and the people I've been working with. I hope I can continue along this path.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Happy
  • Hope

• When we talk about music, we talk about our reaction to it. One person might say that music is so poetic, while another says it's all mathematics. Yet another might say it's about sensuality, and so on. That's all true. But music is not just one of these things. It's everything all at once.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • True
  • Mathematics

• This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Moment
  • Internet

• 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
  • May
  • Father
  • Soul

• I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Society
  • Obsession
  • Central

• The power structures in fashion used to be limited to western Europe and the States. That's changing.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Power
  • Fashion
  • Changing

• How could I stand by and watch my house on fire?

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • House
  • Fire
  • Stand

• Before the gods and after, always, are the streams. Caves, stones, hills. Trees. The earth. The darkness of the earth.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Earth

• ...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
  • World
  • Thinking

• 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
  • People
  • Promise

• 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
  • Long
  • Game
  • Risk

• 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
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• 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
  • People
  • Control
  • Safety

• It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager.

  

  Frank Robinson
  • Black
  • Nice

• I still love a well-crafted joke. Twitter's been great for that.

  

  Kyle Kinane
  • Great

• We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • World
  • Different
  • Think

• I'm honored and thankful to be partnering with the prestigious CFDA as one of the men's wear ambassadors for fashion week. My interest in fashion is only matched by my love for music, and I'm blessed to be given an opportunity to learn about some of my favorite designers from a firsthand look at their latest collections.

  

  J Balvin
  • Music
  • Men
  • Opportunity

• I think medically, football is generally well looked after. There are always checks made. Anything which can be done to make footballers or sportsmen of any area safer has to be encouraged.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Done
  • Think
  • Football

• 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
  • Men
  • Women
  • Peace