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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• I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time.

  

  T-Pain
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• 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

• Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Experience
  • Paradox
  • Beyond

• 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

• One of the marvelous blessings of the Book of Mormon is that it contains, in clarity, revelations reserved to come forth in this dispensation of time. Much of the knowledge that we have relating to the principle of moral agency is found in these modern revelations.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Time
  • Book
  • Knowledge

• 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

• I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired to write something, I'll just write something really beautiful and mellow.

  

  Vanessa Brown
  • Beautiful
  • Mean
  • Feel

• 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

• Oh mercy, mercy me.Ah things ain't what they used to be.What about this overcrowded land?How much more abuse from man can she stand?Oh, na na...My sweet Lord... No.

  

  Marvin Gaye
  • She
  • Sweet
  • Abuse

• 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

• It wasn't until 9th grade that I got into music. This guy in school heard me singing around the hallway to girls and stuff. The girls liked it. One day, he was like, 'Come to my crib. I got a studio. Come and record a hook for me.' I recorded the hook on the 'Lovers & Friends' beat - Usher.

  

  Bryson Tiller
  • Music
  • School
  • Friends

• We have faith that future generations will know that here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men

• I must admit, the constant invasion of privacy was becoming a real concern. I've been asked for autographs while I've been doing laps in the pool and even in the toilet!

  

  Rick Astley
  • Real
  • Pool
  • Concern

• I'm a woman, born the daughter of a feminist and the granddaughter of a feminist grandfather. I don't think I could have avoided working on women's issues. I don't do it as a career or profession; it's my very essence as a human being.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • Women
  • Career
  • Daughter

• 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