Quotes with anti-man

Quotes 1681 till 1700 of 4573.

  • Anna Quindlen I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Clare Boothe Luce I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Dorothy Parker I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Alexander Henry I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.
    Alexander Henry
    American painter
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  • Charles Dickens I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Samuel Beckett I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • James Joyce I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope. Colley Cibber was a silly little man without much elegance and Shelley was very Percy and very Bysshe.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Leo Tolstoy I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Oscar Wilde I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Arthur Golden I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome.
    Original: Ich lehre euch den Übermenschen. Der Mensch ist Etwas das überwunden werden soll.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • George Eliot I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Henry van Dyke I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man's part in the real battle of life.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Lord George Byron I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation - they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Alfred de Vigny I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Lord Arthur Balfour I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. [Speaking Of Winston Churchill]
    Lord Arthur Balfour
    British statesman (1848 - 1930)
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