Quotes with x-men

Quotes 1301 till 1320 of 2140.

  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Nadine Gordimer Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • Germaine Greer Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Mae West Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Charles Dickens Philosophers are only men in armor after all.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Iris Murdoch Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Katharine Hepburn Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • Todd Andrew Reid Plato had slaves...George Washington had slaves...So, do I feel intrinsically better than these two men? Of course I do! They're dead!
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  • Amelia Earhart Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.
    Amelia Earhart
    American aviation pioneer and author (1897 - 1937)
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  • Henry L. Doherty Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.
    Henry L. Doherty
    Irish-American financier and oilman
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  • Charles Baudelaire Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Allen Tate Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Albert Camus Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Samuel Johnson Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Jean Anouilh Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.
    Jean Anouilh
    French playwright (1910 - 1987)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • James F. Byrnes Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
    James F. Byrnes
    American judge and politician (1882 - 1972)
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  • Lincoln Steffens Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.
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