Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony Trollope

He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he know how to speak the truth.

Anthony Trollope

A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.

Anthony Trollope

This was Barrington Erle, a politician of long standing, who was still looked upon by many as a young man, because he had always been known as a young man, and because he had never done anything to compromise his position in that respect. He had not married, or settled himself down in a house of his own, or become subject to the gout, or given up being careful about the fitting of his clothes.

Anthony Trollope

The property of manliness in a man is a great possession, but perhaps there is none that is less understood, which is more generally accorded where it does not exist, nor more frequently disallowed where it prevails.

Anthony Trollope

We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.

Anthony Trollope

The apostle of Christianity and the infidel can meet without a chance of a quarrel; but it is never safe to bring together two men who differ about a saint or a surplice.

Anthony Trollope

Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.

Anthony Trollope

There are some points on which no man can be contented to follow the advice of another - some subjects on which a man can consult his own conscience only.

Anthony Trollope

Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.

Anthony Trollope

I have read - nay, I have bought! - Carlyle's 'Latter Day Pamphlets,' and look on my eight shillings as very much thrown away. To me it appears that the grain of sense is so smothered up in a sack of the sheerest trash, that the former is valueless....I look on him as a man who was always in danger of going mad in literature and who has now done so.

Anthony Trollope

It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man.

Diana Ross

If I'm with a man I'm soft and buttery.

Diana Vreeland

I'm a person who is only invested in the pleasures and enjoyments of life. All the rest is left to the men. I've always remained what you might call "feminine" about the whole [work] thing.

Diana Wynne Jones

Every man in Ingary is scared stiff of her. You ought to know how that feels, Sophie dear.

Diana Wynne Jones

It was a perfectly normal May Day, but Sophie was scared of that too. And when a young man in a fantastical blue-and-silver costume spotted Sophie and decided to accost her as well, Sophie shrank into a shop doorway and tried to hide. The young man looked at her in surprise. "It's all right, you little gray mouse," he said laughing rather pityingly. "I only want to buy you a drink. Don't look so scared.

Derrick Rose

I will say, just being here, God is good, man...

Derrick Jensen

If any thing can be predicated as universally true of uncultivated man, it is that he will not labour beyond what is absolutely necessary to maintain his existence.

Derrick Jensen

I thought that, given the system of rewards central to our economic system, in which profit maximization is valued above all else and specifically above life, it is probably just as irresistible to the owners of capital (human or otherwise) to exploit workers (and the land): "Nothing personal," they say as they load their property onto the ship bound for the Middle Passage, "but a man's gotta turn a dime.

Desiderius Erasmus

The Jewish usurers are fast-rooted even in the smallest villages, and if they lend five gulden they require a security of six times as much. They charge interest, upon interest, and upon this again interest, so that the poor man loses everything that he owns.

Desiderius Erasmus

The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.

Desiderius Erasmus

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

Desiderius Erasmus

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

Desiderius Erasmus

Man is to man either a god or a wolf.

Desiderius Erasmus

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

Desiderius Erasmus

At last concluded that no creature was more miserable than man, for that all other creatures are content with those bounds that nature set them, only man endeavors to exceed them.

Desiderius Erasmus

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

Demi Lovato

I'm not afraid to talk about the fact that women get paid less than men in the United States and how unfair that is. Talking about it at all is doing the work.

Demetri Martin

I just started doing this one-man show, and I wanted to be able to score it, so I bought a guitar, and got a keyboard and got a harmonica. I remember when I started that I didn't understand why a harmonica had different letters on them.

Demetri Martin

It seems that man's greatest natural enemy is the target.