Confucius Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
Tallulah Bankhead -
Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.
C. Wright Mills -
There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.
Karin Slaughter -
Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.
Malcolm X -
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
Victor Hugo
-
This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.
Edouard Manet -
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 -
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
Orison Swett Marden -
It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.
J. B. Smoove -
The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
Gabriel Marcel
-
If you gonna challenge my ways, know my history. Don't put nobody in my face that don't know about me, or they here to write an article on someone they thought was hot when they was hot. Come on, man. I been hot.
Raekwon -
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Orson Welles -
Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
W. Clement Stone -
No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
Daisy Bates -
We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
B. F. Skinner -
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
Ulysses S. Grant
-
I hope I'm remembered as the king of the world, the noble man who united all the nations of the earth. But that probably won't happen.
Macaulay Culkin -
Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
Samuel Johnson -
I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.
Walt Disney -
I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate.
Mal Peet -
The decision took a moment, but it lasted a lifetime
Conn Iggulden -
A man who lacks reliability is utterly useless.
Confucius