Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roland Joffe

The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.

Roland Joffe

I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.

Romain Gary

I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man.

Romain Gary

Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.

Roger Zelazny

Any man would be forsworn to gain a kingdom.

Roger Zelazny

The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe.

Roger Zelazny

The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the one is to lose sight of the three. I may submit to the unknown, but never to the unknowable. The man who bows in that final direction is either a saint or a fool. I have no use for either.

Roland Barthes

The petit-bourgeois is a man unable to imagine the Other. If he comes face to face with him, he blinds himself, ignores and denies him, or else transforms him into himself.

Roland Barthes

Ensnared in his starvation, Chaplin-man is always just below political awareness. A strike is a catastrophe for him because it threatens a man truly blinded by his hunger; this man achieves an awareness of the working-class condition only when the poor man and the proletarian coincide under the gaze (and the blows) of the police.

Susan Rice

Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.

Susan Glaspell

What men have thought about life in the past is less important than what you feel about it to-day.

Susan Faludi

For some high-profile men in trouble, women, especially feminist women, became the all-purpose scapegoats-charged with crimes that often descended into the absurd.

Susan Faludi

Keeping the peace with the particular man in one's life becomes more essential than battling the mass male culture.

Susan Faludi

The economic victims of the era are men who who know someone has made off with their future- and they suspect the thief is a woman.

Susan Griffin

Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poor, men and women alike.

Susan Griffin

In the system of chivalry, men protect women against men. This is not unlike the protection relationship which [organized crime] established with small businesses in the early part of this century. Indeed, chivalry is an age-old protection racket which depends for its existence on rape.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

There's nothing sexier in a man than intelligence.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Phoebe tapped the toe of her sneaker against the dock. “There’s only one good use for a man like Heath Champion.” “Here we go again,” Molly muttered. Phoebe’s lip curled. “Target practice.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

So, Beav, tell me about yourself." "I'm Blue." "Sweetheart, if I had your dubious taste in men, I wouldn't be too happy, either." "My name is Blue. Blue Bailey.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

He shook his head. "The next time I hear a women going on about how neurotic men are, I'm going to remember this. You tell me you like my body, and what do I say? I say, thank you. Then I tell you I like yours and what do I hear? A long lists of grievances.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

There was something about a man with a shovel, and the sweat on his neck might as well have been chocolate sauce. It wasn't fair. Brains and brawns should be two separate categories, not bundled into one irresistible package. She needed to pull herself together before she went after him with a spoon. But where to start?

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

As far as I'm concerned, men like you were put on this world to entertain women like me.

Susan Cheever

If a woman is surrounded by lovers or if a woman has a lot of guys asking her out, that's considered wonderful. As a woman who's slept with a lot of men, I've always been complimented on my ability to attract men.

Susan B. Anthony

I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.

Susan B. Anthony

What words can express her [the white woman’s] humiliation when, at the close of this long conflict, the government which she had served so faithfully held her unworthy of a voice in its councils, while it recognized as the political superiors of all the noble women of the nation the negro men just emerged from slavery, and not only totally illiterate, but also densely ignorant of every public question.

Susan B. Anthony

White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.

Sukarno

Conquer the thousands of man may not be called a winner, but be able to conquer yourself is called a brilliant conqueror!

Sukarno

They, OLDEFO (Old Established Forces), carry out l'exploitation de l'homme par 'homme (the exploitation of man by man). Do not let them live, so that there's no colonialism anymore in the world.

Sufjan Stevens

We live in a world that is cruel to the earth itself. Man is a biological terrorist.

Sufjan Stevens

I’ve never known a man who loved me.

Sue Barker

... and later we'll have action from the men's cockles pairs.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

God is Man's greatest invention

Stuart Symington

FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men.