Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.
Damon Hill -
All men would be tyrants if they could.
Daniel Defoe -
The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.
Natalie Dormer -
Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
Barbara Cartland -
I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.
Dana Plato -
Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.
Imelda Staunton
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Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
Camille Paglia -
And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.
Beatrice Wood -
Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.
Lafcadio Hearn -
Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.
Yoko Ono -
I don't have one role that I want to play. I guess... I want to be a producer. I want to be an activist. I want to be proactive in bringing about work for men, women, boys, girls, everybody who is good at what they do and deserve a shot at it.
Octavia Spencer
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I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.
Ira Hayes -
In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
Walter Lippmann -
Sunlight is painting.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Mahatma Gandhi -
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Immanuel Kant -
Necessity has been a priceless spur which has helped men to perform miracles against incredible odds.
Orison Swett Marden
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Most visions of extraterrestrial life are actually steeped in human hubris. The fictional extraterrestrials of 'Star Trek' or a hundred other space operas are less alien than many of my neighbors. And funny, the ones running the place are mostly WASPish men.
Nathan Myhrvold -
The greater man the greater courtesy.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
Love alone was left, as a great image of a dream that was erased.
Alphonse de Lamartine -
President Bush met repeatedly with human rights activists and freedom fighters from all over the world to give them encouragement and protection and to advance their cause.
Elliott Abrams -
When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.
Lao Tzu -
Armed men don’t sit down and talk.
Ursula K. Le Guin