Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carrie-Anne Moss

I don't have any huge desire to show you all that I'm not tough and strong, that I'm all feminine and soft. That's not a huge longing that I have because I know who I am.

Charlotte Bronte

Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal.

James Salter

I've made an effort to nurture the feminine in myself. I don't mean overtly, but in terms of response to things.

Tom Julian

The ruffled wrap was pretty and dainty, so it was feminine but it also was tailored and would be right for work, too.

Kevin McDonald

I feel that I'm sort of playing me but more feminine, and to me more feminine means smarter.

Marianne Williamson

Feminine power isn't something we go out and acquire; it's already within us. It's something we become willing to experience. Something to admit we have

Angela Merkel

Never before in my political life have I been taken so seriously as woman as in the past few months. ... In return, I have publicly recognized my feminine identity to an unusual measure.

Gaston Bachelard

If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?

Emma Bonino

I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.

Evangeline Lilly

I always wear something slightly masculine.

Judith Butler

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

Renee Vivien

I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.

Gerard Butler

In Scotland, I'm just like a lot of other guys, but in America, I'm seen as a very strong, masculine guy.

Gloria Steinem

Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts.

Brene Brown

Faith minus vulnerability is fundamentalism

Martin Pyykkonen

That 6 percent plus or minus is about where they're stuck at.

Virginia Woolf

The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.

Rebecca Solnit

If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.

Nelson Eddy

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

Nawal El Saadawi

I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.

R. C. Sproul

The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The opposite of nature is impossible.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

In marriage, as in chemistry, opposites have often an attraction.

Olivier Martinez

Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.

Oliver Goldsmith

In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right.

Tim Purpura

He can play all three (outfield) positions, and he runs exceptionally well and has a plus arm, ... He's more of a speed-and-defense type of guy.

Pierre Charron

The shortest follies are the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]

Dave Hamilton

If it all leaks, then you're right back where you started, plus you've wasted all that money.

Dudley Etheridge

He kind of turned it around for us.

Wayne Gretzky

A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.

Brian Anderson

I have to go out there and turn some heads.

Dan Hinote

I made the hit, turned around and it was chaos. I still don't know what happened.

Roberto Hernandez

You can turn around and walk away with that one.

Tamra Strano

Once I turned in the packet, I didn't have another thought about it.

John Boland

It's NBC's turn to lag for a bit.

Meg Mallon

It turns out I've had this for a very long time,

Steve Olson

It turned out to be the right project.