Warren Farrell Quotes

We often think that when a man insults another man by calling him a 'girl,' the insult reflects a contempt for women. No. It reflects a contempt for any man who is unwilling to make himself strong enough to protect someone as precious as a woman.

Warren Farrell

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• I make mistakes on a very grand scale.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Mistakes
  • Very
  • Scale

• The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • War
  • Worst
  • Objectives

• I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

  

  Earl Warren
  • People
  • Man
  • Sports

• I've always been clear - I feel good at Chelsea. Every week, I repeat the same on PSG. It's a big team but an inferior league. I don't want to return to France, because I've won everything over there - the league title, cup, best player, best young player.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Team
  • Best

• There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • World
  • Look
  • Say

• I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Tennis

• Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Game
  • Team
  • College

• Human activity is having a major impact on the planet. We consume or have diverted a large proportion of the productivity of the land and oceans. Our hunger for land crowds out fellow species. Our waste products pollute the waters, warm the atmosphere and acidify the oceans.

  

  Ian Goldin
  • Impact
  • Hunger
  • Productivity

• Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Trying
  • Become
  • Harm

• My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Small
  • Thought
  • Stand

• The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'

  

  Gail O'Grady
  • Reality
  • Show
  • Shark

• The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Real
  • Words
  • Lies

• Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

  

  Dale Dauten
  • Time
  • Success
  • Failure

• Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • You
  • Light
  • Expectations

• I think there's a fear of difference in American cinema.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • American
  • Think
  • Fear

• It gets boring to me when people talk about clothing brands or what boat they're going to buy next summer.

  

  Natassia Malthe
  • People
  • Summer
  • Boat

• I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Women
  • Feeling
  • Die

• Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.

  

  Felix Adler
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Home
  • Play
  • Baby

• My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Attention
  • Technology
  • Race

• Every time I put on high heels, I think: 'Well, I'll fall over today.' Almost always, I don't. Almost. But all high-heel-wearing women live in constant peril.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Time
  • Women
  • Live

• The distribution of troops devoted to the defence of a place includes a garrison, an occupying force, numerically as weak as possible; a reserve as strong as possible, designed for counterattacking and for providing itself, at the moment it goes into action, with a security service which will guard it from any possible surprise.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Strong
  • Action
  • Service

• We often think that when a man insults another man by calling him a 'girl,' the insult reflects a contempt for women. No. It reflects a contempt for any man who is unwilling to make himself strong enough to protect someone as precious as a woman.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Girl
  • Strong