Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leonard Peltier

It is a written fact that our people had warned of all these consequences of wrongful environmental behavior since our very first contact with the non-Indians. There was a time when our elders used to say to us, "You can't function with one foot in the white man's canoe and one foot in the Indian's canoe." With these extreme environmental concerns taking place on the earth, mankind is all in the same boat. Or better be.

Len Deighton

Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Well socialism is exactly the reverse.

Len Deighton

Progress is man's indifference to the lessons of history.

Lemmy Kilmister

All you got in life is your honor, man, your own self-image, your own self-respect. If you lose that, or if you give it away or if you sell it, then you ain't got it no more.

Len Wein

I consider myself the luckiest man in the world. I have spent a lifetime doing what I love.

Lee Krasner

One could go on for ever as to whether the paint should be thick or thin, whether to paint the woman or the square, hard-edge or soft, but after a while such questions become a bore. They are merely problems in aesthetics, having only to do with the outer man.

Lee Kuan Yew

One-man-one-vote is a most difficult form of government.. Results can be erratic.

Lee Kuan Yew

There are some flaws in the assumptions made for democracy. It is assumed that all men and women are equal or should be equal. Hence, one-man-one-vote. But is equality realistic? If it is not, to insist on equality must lead to regression.

Lee Kuan Yew

We have over a hundred political detainees, men against whom we are unable to prove anything in a court of law. Nearly 50 of them are men who gave us a great deal of anxiety during the years of Confrontation because they were Malay extremists. Your life and this dinner would not be what it is if my colleagues and I had decided to play it according to the rules of the game.

Lee Kuan Yew

If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him, when you cannot charge him with any offence against any written law – if that is not what we have always cried out against in Fascist states – then what is it?… If we are to survive as a free democracy, then we must be prepared, in principle, to concede to our enemies – even those who do not subscribe to our views – as much constitutional rights as you concede yourself.

Lee Kuan Yew

I’m not intellectually convinced that one-man, one-vote is the best. We practise it because that’s what the British bequeathed us

Lawrence Block

Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

Lawrence Block

Man, I so sick of dinosaurs. They wasn't extinct, I'd go out an' kill 'em myself.

Lawrence Durrell

Odd, isn't it? He really was the right man for her in a sort of way; but then as you know, it is a law of love that the so-called 'right' person always comes to soon or too late.

Lawrence Durrell

after all the work of the philosophers on his soul and the doctors on his body, what can we really say we know about a man? That he is, when all is said and done, just a passage for liquids and solids, a pipe of flesh.

Lawrence Durrell

Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.

Lawrence Durrell

Every man is made of clay and diamond, and no woman can nourish both.

Laura Riding

Woman is the symbol to man of the uncleanness of bodily existence, of which he purifies himself by putting her to noble uses. She thus has for him a double, contradictory significance; she is the subject of his bawdry and the subject of his romance.

Laura Riding

Woman has two works to perform: a work of differentiation, of man from herself, and a work of unification, of man with herself. ... We, woman, are now entering upon our second work.

Laura Schlessinger

Research indicates that most women want their man to earn more than they do.

The unwillingness to be accountable to a spouse makes most men, and now women, vulnerable to sin in their lives.

Larry Elder

The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.

Larry David

Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!

Larry David

Who do you think has more freedom: the married man in America or the single man in Communist China?

Larry David

Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.

Lady Gregory

Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.

Lady Gregory

As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.

Lady Gregory

It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.

Lady Bird Johnson

Some may wonder why I chose wildflowers when there are hunger and unemployment and the big bomb in the world. Well, I, for one, think we will survive, and I hope that along the way we can keep alive our experience with the flowering earth. For the bounty of nature is also one of the deep needs of man.

Kylie Minogue

I have never been unfaithful to a partner and would find it immoral to be involved with a married man

Kylie Minogue

With one man, there was a freedom and liberation. That was with Michael Hutchence, my partner in life

Kurt Lewin

The American cultural ideal of the self-made man, of everyone standing on his own feet, is as tragic a picture as the initiative – destroying dependence on a benevolent despot. We all need each other. This type of interdependence is the greatest challenge to the maturity of individual and group functioning.

Neil LaBute

I'm more than open to hope, but I think men and women have a difficult time dealing with each other and often take the low road.