Quotes 801 till 820 of 1522.
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Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.
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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason: they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. Those works, therefore, are the most valuable, that set our thinking faculties in the fullest operation. understand them.
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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
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Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
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Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.
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Many women have told me they remember where they were when they read the book, and how they felt suddenly that what they really thought or felt about things made sense.
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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.
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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
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Masterful politicians and effective agents of change tend to succeed by singling out and making salient some aspect of a nation's self-understanding, sparking a sense of recognition - and ultimately moving voters in their favor. Obama made it into an art form.
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Maybe there are logical reasons for a gay person not to have a great relationship with their parents - not because there's a parent who made him gay, but just because it may be difficult to understand everything.
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Medical research has made such progress, that there are practically no healthy people anymore.
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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
The Conduct of Life (1860) Fate -
Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.
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Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.
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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
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Men were only made into ''men'' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally ''a man'' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
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