Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible what was the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: 'Men had forgotten God; that is why all this has happened.'

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A man used to riding in a car cannot understand a pedestrian.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.

George Orwell

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

George Bernard Shaw

If I were a woman, I'd simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I'd got the vote.

V. S. Naipaul

And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over

Walter Lippmann

Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

Dina Merrill

Men think we can't do two things at once. They can't, but we can. Women are more resilient.

Playing someone who has a mental illness, the responsibility to not stuff it up is really strong. You have to get it right. Not just for the people who are sufferers, but for the people who care about them - their loved ones.

Livy

Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.

B. F. Skinner

I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.

Bella Abzug

All of the men on my staff can type.

Benjamin Disraeli

As a rule, man is a fool. When it's hot, he wants it cool; When its cool, he wants it hot. Always wanting, what is not.

Nikki Reed

If I told you how many times guys on set get spray muscles... men need to realize that they don't need to live up to what they think they need to live up to!

Cayden Boyd

Everyone can teach themselves to cry... but sometimes you have just got to see that mental movie going on. You've got to be feeling it.

Rachel Weisz

You would never say to a man, 'do you like playing strong men?' You just wouldn't say that.

Colleen McCullough

It's a woman's book but I think the men will read it too.

The men have long been unpaid and need relief.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom

David Hume

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

I thought they were great, but I didn't think much about them until this year when another teacher mentioned remembering them.

I think we'll pull through this, ... Real Men Pray Everyday.

I think we saw how well we can really play when we use our big men as well as our guards.

Bonnie Bedelia

If someone were to come from another planet and see the world through movies, they'd think that the world was populated by white men in their 30s who shoot a lot.

Yeah, he's got a lot of mental toughness, and I think we take after him.

Cyril Connolly

Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out.

Cyril Connolly

When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?

Cyril Connolly

In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?

Colonel Sanders

Work is the basis of living. I'll never retire. A man'll rust out quicker than he'll wear out.

Compay Segundo

Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture.

Danielle Steel

You'd be surprised how fast things happen when the right man comes along.

Danielle Steel

No man can take your freedom from you. They can limit your mobility, but that's about all they can do