George Fordyce Quotes

One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man.

George Fordyce

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• I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Man
  • Focused
  • Stay Focused

• I have no contracts with my clients; just a handshake is enough.

  

  Irving Paul Lazar
  • Enough
  • Clients
  • Handshake

• Basically hated everything made in the '80s, music television - it was really about the '90s for me. 'Encino Man' was a big hit. 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights.'

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Music
  • Men
  • Man

• With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • World
  • Man
  • Humanity

• If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Man
  • Smile

• The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • God
  • Man
  • Me

• Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.

  

  Patrick White
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Man

• Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Soldier
  • Producer

• I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Fire

• I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Up
  • Good
  • She

• In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.

  

  Florence Kelley
  • Good
  • She
  • Man

• A true man hates no one.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • True
  • Man
  • True Man

• The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • May
  • Man
  • Wise

• No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • May
  • Character
  • Power

• They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Life
  • Enough
  • Enjoy

• Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Rich
  • Poor

• At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Men
  • Art
  • Man

• When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Up
  • Play
  • Enough

• I would never have written 'Trainspotting' if it hadn't been for this album, 'Raw Power,' and 'Metallic K.O.'

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Power
  • Never
  • Album

• Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Success
  • More
  • Show

• There was a time when I just felt like a superwoman. I was like, 'I got Jesus! I ain't afraid!' But, the truth is, I want to do things right, and sometimes I am afraid that I'm not good enough or that I'm not going to handle something right.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Time
  • Good
  • Truth

• When I'm not shooting, I love going on adventures with friends. I love zip-lining through rainforests and different natural habitats, and I love writing music on the side, and I love drinking coffee. I'm a big coffee drinker and go to a lot of cafes and stuff.

  

  Max Schneider
  • Music
  • Different
  • Writing

• One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man.

  

  George Fordyce
  • Man
  • Enough
  • Lion