Lloyd Alexander Quotes
'This is a place of peace,' Medwyn said, 'and therefore not suitable for men, at least, not yet.'
Lloyd Alexander
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All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.
Sam Houston
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I want to do a make-up line for men.
Adam Ant
Adam and the Ants
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar Wilde
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Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
Karl Marx
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As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?
Garret Dillahunt
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Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
Washington Irving
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I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.
Imelda Marcos
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
Samuel Johnson
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When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.
J. William Fulbright
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Beauty is what attracts men naturally, but really I think we dress for other women, not necessarily for men. We torture ourselves every single day, and I wish that we wouldn't because we should all just get along, really.
Odette Annable
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Now, I've got to tell you: 'In Our Mothers House,' I don't think is for a kindergartner.
Patricia Polacco
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Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone's responsibility.
Ban Ki-moon
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With every rising of the sun
Think of your life as just begun.
The past has shrived and buried deep
All yesterdays— there let them sleep,
Nor seek to summon back one ghost
Of that innumerable host.
Concern yourself with but today;
Woo it and teach it to obey
Your wish and will. Since time began
Today has been the friend of man.
But in his blindness and his sorrow
He looks to yesterday and tomorrow.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics? Yet here's a travelled man that knows What he talks about, And there's a politician That has read and thought, And maybe what they say is true Of war and war's alarms, But O that I were young again And held her in my arms!
William Butler Yeats
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As a child, I really did see buildings bombed, and what makes me different from an American that's the same age as I am is that I can understand what happens when there is fighting in a way that they couldn't.
Madeleine Albright
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I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.
Albert Camus
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'This is a place of peace,' Medwyn said, 'and therefore not suitable for men, at least, not yet.'
Lloyd Alexander
