Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.

Adam Yauch

I want to say a little something that's long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end.

Abraham Lincoln

Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?

Abraham Lincoln

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

Aldo Leopold

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

Aldous Huxley

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Albert Einstein

The problems that exist in this world can not be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

Adrienne Rich

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

Adrienne Rich

No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo's Women's War, the marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.

George W. Bush

one of the most inspiring women of the 20th century.

None of the propositions favored by the governor's administration are inspiring much passion,

Jane Addams

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Jane Austen

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.

Jane Austen

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

Jane Austen

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

Jane Austen

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

Jane Austen

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Jane Austen

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

Jane Austen

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

Jane Austen

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

Jane Austen

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

Jane Austen

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

Jane Austen

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

Jane Austen

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Jane Austen

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

Jane Austen

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

Jane Austen

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

Jane Austen

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

Jane Austen

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

Jane Austen

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

Jane Austen

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

Jane Austen

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Jane Austen

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.