Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes

Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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• Apple
• Satisfy
• Garden of Eden

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• Provision must be made for the extension of speedy and effective assistance when any African State is threatened with military aggression. We cannot rely solely on international morality.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Military
  • Morality
  • African

• The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.

  

  Salmon Portland Chase
  • Looks
  • Constitution
  • Union

• Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Believe
  • Country
  • I Believe

• Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Sweet
  • Breathe
  • Underwater

• A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Man
  • Wife

• The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Time
  • You
  • Greatest

• Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Suffering
  • Principle

• When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Different
  • Dance
  • Audience

• Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
  • Love
  • Giving
  • Best

• My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog?

  

  Edie Falco
  • Children
  • Why
  • Kids

• The female attention I have to struggle hardest with is from my two-year-old daughter.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Attention
  • Struggle
  • Daughter

• When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • People
  • Writing
  • Ideas

• Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through lineal heritage as in the case of royalty, ravage their subjects.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Men
  • Power
  • Man

• Too often, the air conditioners we use to cool down also contribute to climate change - the very force that's fueling extreme heat.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Change
  • Cool
  • Air

• I know just how isolating it can feel to experience severe anxiety.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Experience
  • Know
  • Anxiety

• When I visit businesses across New Hampshire, they tell me that their No. 1 need is even more highly skilled workers to fill job openings.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Job
  • Me
  • New

• Negativity spreads faster than any Justin Bieber song.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Song
  • Negativity
  • Faster

• Chaos, rudis indigestaque moles.

  

  Ovid
  • Chaos

• But that's what I'm saying to you... That there are bad people in this world, and sometimes bad people stay bad. Sometimes you have to stand up to them.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• You have Donald Trump just making outright fabrications, accusing me of something that is absolutely untrue.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Donald Trump
  • Outright fabrications

• I am merely a seeker after knowledge, taking the world for my province, for it seems all knowledge is interrelated, and each science is dependent to some extent on the others. We study the stars that we may know more about our earth, and herbs that we may know medicine better.

  

  Louis L'Amour
  • World
  • May
  • Science

• Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

  

  Socrates
  • Thinking
  • Man
  • Knowledge

• When you're put in a position to really affect young people who are going to run the world one day, if you're able to be in their life at a young age and make a positive impact, I think that's a beautiful thing.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Knowledge
  • Apple
  • Satisfy