Idries Shah Quotes
A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.Idries Shah
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I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.
Ralph Abernathy -
Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.
Narendra Modi -
No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
E. M. Forster -
There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
Owen Feltham -
This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.
Edouard Manet
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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 -
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
Orison Swett Marden -
A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.
Fletcher Knebel -
I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.
Rand Paul -
Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.
L. Ron Hubbard -
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Orson Welles
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We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
A. B. Yehoshua -
A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.
Carly Fiorina -
Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
H. L. Mencken -
I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
E. B. White -
Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
Custard puddings, sauces and fillings accompany the seven ages of man in sickness and in health.
Irma S. Rombauer
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A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
Baltasar Gracian -
There's more pressure on women to be chirpy and perky.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
She thought in would be awkward for both to be brought into conscious collision; and fancied that, from her being on a low seat at first, and now standing behind her father, he had overlooked her in his haste. As if he did not feel the consciousness of her presence all over, though his eyes had never rested on her!
Elizabeth Gaskell -
A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.
Idries Shah