Calvin Coolidge Quotes
We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.Calvin Coolidge
Quotes to Explore
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If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.
Yousuf Karsh -
There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.
J. C. Ryle -
At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
Hans Kung -
It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
H. G. Wells -
In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.
Verne Troyer -
Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.
T. E. Lawrence
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Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.
Babasaheb -
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 -
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 -
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
Vera Brittain -
At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.
Barbara Hepworth -
Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.
Malcolm de Chazal
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Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups.
Tariq Ali -
There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Socrates gave a lifetime to the outpouring of his substance in the shape of the greatest benefits bestowed on all who cared to receive them. In other words, he made those who lived in his society better men and sent them on their way rejoicing.
Xenophon -
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 -
You would never say to a man, 'do you like playing strong men?' You just wouldn't say that.
Rachel Weisz -
All I say is that I don't go out with famous men.
Samantha Mumba
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I understand that fictional men aren't real. Not 'really real'. I know this the same way I wonder if my readers are disappointed when they meet me.
Margaret Stohl -
Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman.
Randy Neugebauer -
Man can be the most affectionate and altruistic of creatures, yet he's potentially more vicious than any other. He is the only one who can be persuaded to hate millions of his own kind whom he has never seen and to kill as many as he can lay his hands on in the name of his tribe or his God.
Benjamin Spock -
The whole sex symbol or babe thing doesn't bother me.
Jeri Ryan -
We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
Calvin Coolidge