Patrick Henry Quotes

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, believed to have one of the highest rates of sexual violence in the world, girls and women face increased peril on the road to safety.

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• The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • World
  • Good
  • Books

• I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Girl
  • Culture
  • Myself

• I like to think I'm a role model for women. But I also don't like to just limit it to women. I like to think I'm a role model for human beings in general.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Women
  • Think
  • Model

• Great men marry great women.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Great
  • Men
  • Women

• Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.

  

  Fiona McIntosh
  • People
  • World
  • Book

• If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • World
  • Politics
  • Show

• The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Doing
  • Problems

• Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sex

• The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.

  

  Adam Ostrow
  • World
  • Society
  • Internet

• All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't know how or why that started, but I'm nicknamed after my great-grandmother, who was Mamie. No one ever calls me Mary, except only if my husband is very serious about something.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Great
  • Women
  • Family

• I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. It's a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees lined with Spanish moss, and alligators swimming in the river.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • World
  • Love
  • Trees

• Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Society
  • Exists

• I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • World
  • Love
  • Countries

• I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • War
  • Dark

• But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • World
  • Believe
  • Different

• The world is shifting from a hegemonic era, where the United States dominated alone, to a multipolar system.

  

  Najib Razak
  • World
  • Alone
  • System

• When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • World
  • Television
  • Fair

• We have people around the world who live in the United States, and these people don't deserve to be called traitors.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• Donald Trump can have some advantage in negotiations. NAFTA is high on his agenda.But if he goes too far, I think the president of Mexico Enrique Pena and the Mexicans will decide they would just as soon get out of NAFTA, and we don't want that either. There may need to be some changes, but to re-imagine the entire world we have had an international order. It's not perfect, but for 70 years, it has kept Europe whole and free and safe, and we need to keep it in place.

  

  Wendy Sherman
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Perfect

• I'll be honest, I like shooting 'New Girl.' I like the people. The show is still new to me. I've never done TV like this before.

  

  Jake Johnson
  • People
  • Done
  • Girl

• I would like there to be gender equity. I would like the Broadway season to reflect sort of the demographic of the country.

  

  Lynn Nottage
  • Country

• We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Desire
  • Public
  • Expansion

• I didn’t even know I could write music, but somehow Walt did. He tapped my hidden talents.

  

  Xavier Atencio
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Talent

• In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, believed to have one of the highest rates of sexual violence in the world, girls and women face increased peril on the road to safety.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • World
  • Women
  • Girl