Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives.
~By Solomon Ibn Gabirol ~
We do foreign assistance for altruistic reasons, certainly for humanitarian reasons, of course. But the main reason we do foreign assistance is we do it in the American national interest.
~By Roger Wicker ~
I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.
~By Elizabeth Taylor ~
Why is it there are so many nice guys interested in baseball? Not me, I was a real bastard when I played.
~By Burleigh Grimes ~
If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.
~By Alfred Korzybski ~
The tormenting dilemma of the Middle East is this: either we have one people too many, or one state too few.
~By Afif Safieh ~
Of course there are many ways we can reuse something. We can dye it. We can cut it. We can change the buttons. Those are other ways to make it alive. But this is a new step to use anything - hats, socks, shirts. It's the first step in the process.
~By Issey Miyake ~
Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
~By Muhammed Iqbal ~
For if the Germans do not help defend the West, American and Canadian troops must cross the seas to do the job, and I venture to believe that the troops - if not the statesmen - regard this as an interference at least in their own domestic affairs.
~By Arthur H. Sulzberger ~
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
~By Maurice Chevalier ~
War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
~By Benito Mussolini ~
Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
Say to all small and great, and that often, that fully, quickly and willingly, without grumbling and contradiction, they do all your commands that are not against God.
~By Robert Grosseteste ~
Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.
~By Stephen Gardiner ~
The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
~By Edgar Watson Howe ~
The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.
~By John Pomfret ~
When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
~By Tacitus ~
As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
~By Diogenes ~
Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!
~By Pat Riley ~
It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.
~By Naguib Mahfouz ~
Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.
~By William Pollard ~
What this loss means will be appreciated from the statement that one bushel of wheat contains sufficient energy to support the average working man for 15 days.
~By David F. Houston ~
Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
~By Lord Byron ~
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.
~By Margaret Fuller ~
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
~By Charles Sumner ~
It is my happy privilege to be able to stand here and tell you that if you elect me you will have elected a governor who has made no promises of preferment to any man or group.
~By Charles Edison ~
Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.
~By Matthew Henry ~
To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
~By Jane Fonda ~
But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever.
~By Larry Bird ~
The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
~By Jules Verne ~
If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.
~By William Allingham ~
Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.
~By John Owen ~
A woman has many faces as she goes through her life. It's like we need more than one hair-do. We have many, many changes in the evolution of our lives. We have, we learn, and we grow; we view life differently, and life views us differently.
~By Sharon Stone ~
When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.
~By Victoria Principal ~
White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.
~By Holly Near ~
I feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean's life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to.
~By Rowan Atkinson ~
I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to what would tell best the story. Because many people get excited about the work and drift off from the story.
~By John Hench ~
I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.
~By Jean Paul ~
German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case.
~By Brian Lumley ~
The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
~By Swami Vivekananda ~
But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.
~By Agnes Smedley ~
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
~By Jean Paul ~
A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.
~By Mel Gibson ~
I was feeling real good and real manly. Until a real cowboy walked by and told me I had my hat on backwards. So much for my career as a cowboy.
~By Michael Biehn ~
Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man.
~By Gyorgy Ligeti ~
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
~By Lewis Carroll ~
To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.
~By Uta Hagen ~
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
~By Aristotle ~
This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo.
~By Derek Walcott ~
I started radio in 1950 on the Lone Ranger radio program, a dramatic show that emanated from Detroit when I was 18 years old and just beginning college. I did that for a couple of years.
~By Casey Kasum ~
The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.
~By John Rawls ~
In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.
~By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ~
I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.
~By Alvin Lee ~
Too often in our communities many families have not even been aware that certain charities exist; and at the same time, there are many who are willing to volunteer their energy and their resources to help these charities, yet they do not know these charities even exist.
~By Dana Rohrabacher ~
After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.
~By Margaret Chan ~
A gay man can be friends with a straight man. That can happen.
~By Steve Guttenberg ~
A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed, and strong families with a man and a woman - bonded together for life - always have been, and always will be, the key to such families.
~By Jim Bunning ~
I think maybe ten years from now, I'm hopefully going to be, in like, Tahiti or something. Kicking back like in my huge mansion, if everything goes right, it's all up to me.
~By Corey Haim ~
Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.
~By Phaedrus ~
The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
~By Leigh Hunt ~
The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.
~By Daisy Bates ~
I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America.
~By Wilfrid Laurier ~
This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.
~By Tavis Smiley ~
When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden.
~By Robert Fisk ~
While many people think that we as reporters are whining and that this is a time of war, we are really the conveyors of truth in a very critical time and people need to know that truth.
~By Judd Rose ~
The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable.
~By Thomas Day ~
I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different.
~By Ridley Scott ~
Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
~By Geoffrey Chaucer ~
I'm crazy about my father, he's an amazing man, a real adventurer. He took us with him to travel all over the world. We were in places that were so remote, that white people hardly ever reach them.
~By Peta Wilson ~
The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.
~By Lee Iacocca ~
No man is free who is not master of himself.
~By Epictetus ~
I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.
~By Joseph Epstein ~
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.
~By Germaine Greer ~
I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction.
~By Bobby Darin ~
When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Clint Eastwood. Here's a guy who's been involved in so many movies, lots of them masterpieces, and now he's a director. I just like everything I know about him. He's very decisive, he makes up his mind real quick.
~By Bobby Farrelly ~
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
~By Charlotte Perkins Gilman ~
With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above, and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland.
~By Tycho Brahe ~
Many people think that depression is something you just have to live with when you get older, but it's not.
~By Tom Bosley ~
In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.
~By John Boyd Orr ~
A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.
~By Sol Wachtler ~
The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product.
~By Brian Harris ~
The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know.
~By Terrence Howard ~
Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.
~By Silvia Cartwright ~
If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system, which allows a great deal of latitude for human choice, people can get carried away to excess.
~By Lee R. Raymond ~
Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
~By Edmond De Goncourt ~
The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that.
~By Dmitri Mendeleev ~
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
~By Albert Einstein ~
The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
~By Thomas Bailey Aldrich ~
I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.
~By Bob Marley ~
When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.
~By David Brin ~
I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice.
~By Diahann Carroll ~
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