Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.

Charles Stross

I tend to think that immortal souls, invisible sky daddies, and Santa Claus all belong in the same basket. The disposition of that basket is left as an exercise for the reader.

Charles Spurgeon

We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten bough of self-dependence, and to root us more firmly in Christ. The day of evil reveals to us the value of our glorious hope.

Alan Watts

When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.

Al Oerter

To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors.

Al Roker

I know I need to exercise. For some people, exercise is like breathing; for others, like me, it takes effort. Exercising is what I need for my metabolism and for a better sense of well-being.

Chiang Kai-shek

Democracy is liberty - a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains strict discipline, and makes law its guarantee and the basis of its exercise. This alone is true liberty; this alone can produce true democracy.

David Kay

And you know, almost in a perverse way, I wish it had been undue influence because we know how to correct that. We get rid of the people who, in fact, were exercising that.

Dave Barry

Albert Einstein, who discovered that a tiny amount of mass is equal to a huge amount of energy, which explains why, as Einstein himself so eloquently put it in a famous 1939 speech to the Physics Department at Princeton, 'You have to exercise for a week to work off the thigh fat from a single Snickers.'

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I’m very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work.

Camille Paglia

Whiffle [whine and wheeze and snuff and sniffle]: The annoying scratchy sound made by weepy feminists as they lament the sufferings of women and, houndlike, sniff out evidence of male oppression.

Caitlin Moran

Let's all go and be feminists in the pub.

Caitlin Moran

Women are feminist by default.

Caitlin Moran

As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.

Caitlin Moran

A male feminist is one of the most glorious end-products of evolution.

Caitlin Moran

We must recall the most important of humanity guidelines: Be polite. Being polite is possibly the greatest daily contribution everyone can make to life on Earth.

Louis C. K.

Stereotypically speaking feminists can't take a joke. ::audience boo:: See?

Beyonce Knowles

I need to find a catchy new word for feminism, right? Like 'bootylicious.'

Camille Paglia

before feminism was, Paglia was!

Camille Paglia

Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.

Caitlin Moran

Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt.

Dennis Miller

Ah, Feminism in the nineties, what a What is yours what is mine field.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

We must reclaim and retake feminism from our fellow idiotic women.

Bella Abzug

We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.

bell hooks

Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually - women who are powerless to change their condition in life. They are a silent majority.

bell hooks

Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.

Dennis Prager

Has feminism increased the pool of happy women?