Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Jackson

There are, perhaps, few men who can for any length of time enjoy office and power without being more or less under the influence of feelings unfavorable to the faithful discharge of their political duties.

Andrew Jackson

Freemasonry is a moral order, instituted by virtuous men, with the praiseworthy design of recalling to our remembrance the most sublime truths, in the midst of the most innocent and social pleasures, founded on liberality, brotherly love and charity.

Amy Vanderbilt

We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.

Amy Sedaris

I cried when I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. And then I laughed REALLY hard.

Amin Maalouf

Doctrines are meant to serve man, not the other way around.

Amin Maalouf

Life is like a fire. Flames which the passer-by forgets. Ashes which the wind scatters. A man lived.

Amin Maalouf

are you certain that a man's life begins with his birth?

Amory Lovins

I am a man without a furnace. My windows are insulated by 19 sheets of glass which cost less than installing a heating system.

Amiri Baraka

Most American white men are trained to be fags. For this reason it is no wonder their faces are weak and blank...

Amiri Baraka

God is man idealized.

Amiri Baraka

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.

Amish Tripathi

Whether a man is a legend or not is decided by history, not fortune tellers.

Allison Pearson

For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.

Anson Mount

I like being able to be a man.

Anson Mount

I can't claim I'm truly a man's man, I'm just as much of a dork and a crybaby sometimes as anybody else.

Anson Mount

In the last two or three decades, there's been a feminization of the man in popular media that I've never really understood.

Anthony Browne

You can never have 'equality' between two things that are not equal by definition. And so, for example, you can have equality among 'people', but not between 'men' and 'women'.

Anthony Braxton

Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit.

Anthony Burgess

... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read a malenky bit out loud in a sort of very high type preaching goloss: '- The attempt to impose upon a man, a creature of growth and capable of sweetness, to ooze juicily at the last round the bearded lips of God, to attempt to impose, I say, laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my swordpen-

Anthony Burgess

That so many writers have been prepared to accept a kind of martyrdom is the best tribute that flesh can pay to the living spirit of man as expressed in his literature. One cannot doubt that the martyrdom will continue to be gladly embraced. To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.

Anthony Burgess

Do they merit vitriol, even a drop of it? Yes, because they corrupt the young, persuading them that the mature world, which produced Beethoven and Schweitzer, sets an even higher value on the transient anodynes of youth than does youth itself.... They are the Hollow Men. They are electronic lice.

Anthony Burgess

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

Anthony Burgess

When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.

Anthony Burgess

Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

Andy Serkis

There are no rhymes or reason, actually. Having said that, you know, cause there are people who are absolutely single-minded about their process and they can still come up with great work. But (what) I enjoy and it's the same, I suppose, as I became more of a family man, I enjoy, I enjoy an atmosphere where it, you know, doesn't have to be about conflict to get good results.

Andy Serkis

I'm in the early stages of a film called 'Freezing Time' about Eadweard Muybridge, the Victorian photographer who was really the forefather of cinema. Digital animators still treat his images like the Bible. He was a very obsessed man.

Andy Rooney

All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.

Andy Stanley

There is something insincere about a man or woman who repeatedly tells God how much he or she loves Him while refusing to obey Him.

Andy Stanley

Vions are born in the soul of a man or woman who is consumed with the tension between what is and what could be.

Andy Stanley

If a man can predict his own death and resurrection, and pull it off, I just go with whatever that man says

Andy Stanley

Here’s a question every angry man and woman needs to consider: How long are you going to allow people you don’t even like — people who are no longer in your life, maybe even people who aren’t even alive anymore — to control your life? How long?

Andy Warhol

Brigitte Bardot was one of the first women to be really modern and treat men like love objects, buying them and discarding them. I like that.

Andy Warhol

The pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second — comics, picnic tables, men’s trousers, celebrities, shower curtains, refrigerators, Coke bottles. All the great modern things that the Abstract Expressionists tried not to notice at all.