Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eve Ensler

Whatever culture, whatever country, girls are taught to please others as opposed to pleasing themselves.

Ben Affleck

I went to the University of Vermont because I had a kind of unrequited love for this high school girlfriend. She wasn't even at the University but at another school nearby. But I thought if went to a school near her, just maybe... I was really remedial about girls in so many ways.

Bonnie Somerville

My mom took me to see 'Annie' on Broadway when I was little, and I just wanted to be doing what those girls were doing.

Denise Richards

As a little girl I loved the thought of playing dress-up and getting ready.

Viva Bianca

When I was a little girl at school, I really wanted to be Katie or Sarah or Sophie. When you're a little girl at school, you want to be like the other little girls.

Natalie du Toit

The situation in disability sport is growing, and girls like Ellie Cole are doing wonders.

Rebecca Romijn

I've become really good at turning down the boring, pretty girl roles, the trophy wife, supermodel, beautiful girlfriend roles. I mean, playing somebody who's perfect holds no allure for me, whatsoever. It's just boring.

C. S. Lewis

This is where men, even the trustiest, fail us. Their heart is never so wholly given to any matter but that some trifle of a meal, or a drink, or a sleep, or a joke, or a girl, may come in between them and it, and then (even if you are a queen) you'll get no more good out of them until they've had their way.

C. S. Lewis

And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?" "I'm not a dwarf! I'm a girl. And actually I'm tallest in my class." "You mean to say, that you're a daughter of Eve?" "Well my mum's name is Helen..." "Y-yes, but, you are in fact... human?

C. S. Lewis

You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind and when it gives you no pleasure, simply because kindness is right; but no one ever did a cruel action simply because cruelty is wrong - only because cruelty is pleasant or useful to him, In other words, badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.

Carl Rakosi

... Kindness, sweetest of the small notes in the world's ache, most modest & gentle of the elements entered man before history and became his daily connection, let no man tell you otherwise.

Bertrand Russell

It can be shown that a mathematical web of some kind can be woven about any universe containing several objects. The fact that our universe lends itself to mathematical treatment is not a fact of any great philosophical significance.

Tommy Bell

We had one match that was kind of a little slip-up, but other than that we were really on top of our game.

Robert Frost

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Tom Powers

We've kind of been spoiled with Tania. Now we are going to be more of a scrappy team that passes well. We are smaller now but more athletic.

William Shakespeare

He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.

Paul Thomas Anderson

No, really. Just do it. You have some kind of weird reasons that are okay.

Schelley Olhava

Microsoft is kind of an underdog, but they've also come a long way with the Xbox,

Abraham Lincoln

Care for him who shall have borne the battle

Courtney Love

I did not want to make the widow record. I still haven't made the widow record.

Imelda Marcos

Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.

Honore de Balzac

Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.

Ethel Mumford

Life Insurance Motto - Robbing the widows early and orphan.

George R. R. Martin

Truly, sister, you were born to be a widow. (Tyrion to Cersei)

Mark Twain

There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.

Siri Hustvedt

Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder. [p. 61]

George Herbert

Take heed of a person marked, and a Widdow thrice married. [Take heed of a person marked, and a widow thrice married.]