Famous Quotes & Sayings

Annie Lennox

Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.

Annie Lennox

I watch 'Mad Men,' I knit scarves, I cook and am very, very normal. Honestly.

Annie Lennox

I don't think feminism is about the exclusion of men but their inclusion... we must face and address those issues, especially to include younger men and boys.

Annie Dillard

I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.

Annie Dillard

We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.

Annie Dillard

If even rock was interesting, if even this ugliness was worth whole shelves at the library, required sophisticated tools to study, and inspired grown men to crack mountains and saw crystals--then what wasn't?

Daniel Inouye

I do not personally agree with some of the positions that Mr. Gonzales has advocated, but that should come as no surprise, because I do not agree with many of the proposals made by the man who nominated him, President Bush.

Daniel Keyes

Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men." --Charlie Gordan

Daniel Keyes

No one really starts anything new, Mrs. Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.

Daniel Keyes

Life and work are the most wonderful things a man can have.

Daniel Keyes

Im like a man whos been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up.

Daniel Keyes

I'm not close to him." He looked at me defiantly. "But he's put his whole life into this. He's no Freud or Jung or Pavlov or Watson, but he's doing something important and I respect his dedication - maybe even more because he's just an ordinary man trying to do a great man's work, while the great men are all busy making bombs.

Daniel Keyes

I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out forthemselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of writtencommunication. Another case of men devoting their lives to studying more and more about less and less-filling volumes and libraries with the subtle linguistic analysis of the grunt.

Daniel J. Boorstin

History had been man's effort to accomodate himself to what he could not do. Amereican history in the 20th century would, more than ever before, test man's ability to accomodate himself to all the new things he could do.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Since the Creator had made the facts of the after-life inaccessible to man, He must not have required that man understand death in order to live fruitfully.

Daniel J. Boorstin

The institutional scene in which American man has developed has lacked that accumulation from intervening stages which has been so dominant a feature of the European landscape.

D. B. Weiss

We will not be recasting J.J. Murphy. He was a lovely man, and the best Denys Mallister we could have hoped for. And now his watch is ended.

D. Elton Trueblood

Democracy is necessitated by the fact that all men are sinners; it is made possible by the fact that we know it. ...

D. Elton Trueblood

If the average church should suddenly take seriously the notion that every lay member man or woman is really a minister of Christ, we could have something like a revolution in a very short time.

D. Elton Trueblood

It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.

D. Elton Trueblood

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

Czeslaw Milosz

Only a white-haired old man, who would be a prophet Yet is not a prophet, for he's much too busy, Repeats while he binds his tomatoes: No other end of the world will there be, No other end of the world will there be.

Czeslaw Milosz

Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.

Czeslaw Milosz

The true enemy of man is generalization.

D. H. Lawrence

A man will part with anything so long as he's drunk, and you're drunk with him.

D. H. Lawrence

Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.

D. H. Lawrence

A man must keep his earnestness nimble, to escape ridicule.

D. H. Lawrence

Gods should be iridescent, like the rainbow in the storm. Man creates a God in his own image, and the gods grow old along with the men that made them... But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.

D. H. Lawrence

I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.

D. H. Lawrence

Man is a thought-adventurer.

D. H. Lawrence

The source of all life and knowledge is in #‎ man and #‎ woman , and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge , man-being and woman-being.

D. H. Lawrence

Thought is a man in his wholeness, wholly attending.

D. H. Lawrence

Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.