Quotes with woman-being

Quotes 2301 till 2320 of 2607.

  • Antoinette Brown Blackwell We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted.
    Antoinette Brown Blackwell
    American Protestant minister (1825 - 1921)
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  • Charles Lamb We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Bartlett Sher We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.
    Bartlett Sher
    American theatre director (1959 - )
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  • Brit Hume We get a ton of email; everybody does now. It gives us a kind of a pulse that you can feel.We hear people saying, thank you for being fair, for being balanced.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle We have already begun to fly; several persons, here and there, have found the secret to fitting wings to themselves, of setting them in motion, so that they are held up in the air and are carried across streams.... The art of flying is only just being born; it will be perfected, and some day we will go as far as the moon.
    Source: Entretiens sur la Pluralite des Mondes Habite
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Camille Paglia We have an evolutionary revulsion from slime, the site of our biologic origins. Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.
    Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Jean Baudrillard We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities - courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning - whereas all our imagination can do is naively pile up the illusion of courage.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Boris Kodjoe We have relationships and know the exact outcome with that person because we don't deal with ourselves and don't deal with our issues and end up being attracted to the same person or the person is attracted to our energy.
    Boris Kodjoe
    Austrian-American actor, producer (1973 - )
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  • John Ruskin We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Susie Orbach We know that ever woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness.
    Susie Orbach
     
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  • Abraham Flexner We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
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  • Graham Greene We mustn't complain too much of being comedians - it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed - that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Carly Fiorina We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej We need to inspire and give each other confidence so that the work we do will be fruitful for the well-being of the people and the stability and security of the country.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Bob Brown We people of the Earth exist because our potential was there in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as the universe exploded into being.
    Bob Brown
    Australian politician, medical doctor and environmentalist (1944 - )
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  • Bernard Lown We physicians who shepherd human life from birth to death have a moral imperative to resist with all our being the drift toward the brink. The threatened inhabitants on this fragile planet must speak out for those yet unborn, for posterity has no lobby with politicians.
    Source: Nobel Peace Prize acceptance
    Bernard Lown
     
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  • Dwight L. Moody We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Bruce Dickinson We tread a fine line between taking ourselves seriously and being Spinal Tap.
    Source: Tobler, John (1992)
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Calvin Klein We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp.
    Calvin Klein
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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  • Lionel Trilling We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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