Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Healy

We have to get a lot more physically and mentally tough. That's a concern.

Agnes Macphail

When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours.

Agnes Macphail

It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage and they must even change their name.

Agnes Smedley

And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.

Agnes Smedley

I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.

Agnes Smedley

No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.

Agnes de Mille

No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.

Agnes Varda

I never met Publo Picasso. I took pictures at the Festival d'Avignon, but I was too shy to ask to go in his studio. It does not look like me now, but I was very shy, and shy of men also. I think there was a world that frightened me totally.

Agnes Repplier

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.

Agnes Repplier

Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.

Agnes Repplier

I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.

Agnes Repplier

The man who never tells an unpalatable truth 'at the wrong time' (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.

Agnes Repplier

The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.

Agnes Repplier

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

Agnes Repplier

In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.

Agnes Repplier

The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.

Agnes Repplier

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

Abba Eban

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

Abba Eban

Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

Abba Eban

Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.

Alan Tudyk

I don't wear jewelry, as a man.

Alan Turing

We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.

Alan Turing

A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.

Alan Ladd

I have the face of an ageing choirboy and the build of an undernourished featherweight. If you can figure out my success on the screen you're a better man than I.

Alan Keyes

It is the absence of bars that makes a beast free - but only the truth can make a man free.

Charlotte Bronte

Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you have an idea.

Charlotte Bronte

The man of regular life and rational mind never despairs.

Charlotte Bronte

If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed....

Charlotte Bronte

I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like what the thirst-perishing man might feel who knows the well to which he has crept is poisoned, yet stoops and drinks divine draughts nevertheless.

Charlotte Bronte

I am neither a man nor a woman but an author.

Charlotte Bronte

A reader kindly pointed out to me recently that most of the quotes I include are by men. And it's true. Personally, I don't even consider whether the author is male or female, nor even care much who the author is - what's significant is the message. Of course, women are equally capable of great insights, however in our culture it's not so long ago that women could not even be published

Charlotte Bronte

To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me--the sole ground on which I accept your judgment.

Charlotte Bronte

If you like poetry let it be first-rate; Milton, Shakespeare, Thomson, Goldsmith, Pope (if you will, though I don't admire him), Scott, Byron, Camp[b]ell, Wordsworth, and Southey. Now don't be startled at the names of Shakespeare and Byron. Both these were great men, and their works are like themselves. You will know how to choose the good and avoid the evil; the finest passages are always the purest, the bad are invariably revolting, you will never wish to read them over twice.