Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carrie Chapman Catt

it was the United States which first established general suffrage for men upon the two principles that 'taxation without representation is tyranny' and that governments to be just should 'derive their consent from the governed.' The unanswerable logic of these two principles is responsible for the extension of suffrage to men and women the world over. In the United States, however, women are still taxed without 'representation' and still live under a government to which they have given no 'consent.

Carrie Fisher

What doesn't kill men makes them stronger. What doesn't kill women makes men breakfast.

Carl Rogers

Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture will perish.

Carl Rogers

Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.

Carl Sagan

Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation

Carl Sagan

Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.

Carl Sagan

The wind whips through the canyons of the American Southwest, and there is no one to hear it but us - a reminder of the 40,000 generations of thinking men and women who preceded us, about whom we know almost nothing, upon whom our civilization is based.

Bill Burr

And Donald Trump? That man literally has people shouting the n word at his rallies and he doesn't address it, which is astounding to me. He's a terrible person.

Bill Bryson

Yes, U.S. travelers dress better. The British are always so conspicuous in hot climates. They don't seem to wear shorts. American men seem to be comfortable wearing hot-weather clothing.

Bill Bryson

The tearoom lady called me love. All the shop ladies called me love and most of the men called me mate. I hadn't been here twelve hours and already they loved me.

Bill Bryson

It was an odd situation. For a century and a half, men got rid of their own hair, which was perfectly comfortable, and instead covered their heads with something foreign and uncomfortable. Very often it was actually their own hair made into a wig. People who couldn't afford wigs tried to make their hair look like a wig.

Bill Bryson

If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like.

Bette Davis

I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.

Bette Davis

Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.

Bette Davis

I've always liked men better than women.

Bette Davis

I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.

Bernard Beckett

Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. Its very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover Gods great plan.

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends the questioning spirit has for that moment betrayed humanity.

An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.

Benjamin Rush

Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.

Benjamin Rush

A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.

Ashton Kutcher

Women have a level of outward compassion that a lot of men don't necessarily have. Guys feel as deeply as women, but they don't share it as much.

Ashton Kutcher

Whether it's being a leading man, making TV shows, being with my family, I've learned a lot.

Ashton Kutcher

I would say probably my most alpha quality is my competitive nature. I'm very competitive, and it tends to bring out very much the man in me.

Ashton Kutcher

Be careful with the man jewelry. A little goes a long way.

Ashton Kutcher

When it comes to getting dressed, men are a little bit more important than handbags but less important than shoes.

Arnold Rothstein

Anyone who'd sell out a whole town wouldn't hesitate to double-cross one man.

Arnold Rothstein

If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is

Art Alexakis

Forgiveness is hard for me, man. It is for most American-Western males. It's a sign of weakness.

Arsene Wenger

If you buy a man who is half dead, everybody may be happy off the field, but on the field you'll have major problems

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.

Anthony Storr

One man's faith is another man's delusion

Anthony Storr

It is a tragic paradox that the very qualities that have led to man's extraordinary capacity for success are also those most likely to destroy him.