Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bear Grylls

I said 'no' to the 'Born Survivor' producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.

Bear Grylls

My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.

Bear Grylls

Many people find it hard to understand what it is about a mountain that draws men and women to risk their lives on her freezing, icy faces - all for a chance at that single, solitary moment on the top. It can be hard to explain. But I also relate to the quote that says, Iif you have to ask, you will never understand.

Barnett Newman

We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions.

Baroness Orczy

Odd's fish, m'dear! The man can't even tie his own cravat!

Barry Bostwick

Every man over 40 should have a PSA test each year.

August Krogh

In man, the mechanical breathing is essential to life, and it is one of the old tests for death to see whether these movements have ceased completely.

Audrey Meadows

Robert Taylor was not only a splendid actor in a wide variety of roles but one of the most handsome men in the western world.

August Strindberg

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.

Audrey Hepburn

The more there is, the less I want. The more man flies to the moon, the more I want to look at a tree.

Audrey Hepburn

You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you.

Audre Lorde

For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around as unavoidable adjuncts or pleasant pastimes, our feelings were expected to kneel to thought as women were expected to kneel to men. But women have survived. As poets.

Audre Lorde

But in a crunch, when all our asses are in the sling, it looks like it is easier to deal with the samenesses. When we deal with sameness only, we develop weapons that we use against each other when the differences become apparent. And we wipe each other out - Black men and women can wipe each other out - far more effectively than outsiders do.

Audre Lorde

In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.

Audre Lorde

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.

Athenaeus

It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that "Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had, - being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity."

As a woman, you accept the situation, adapt to it, and do your best, whereas men would choose violence.

Athol Fugard

To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his life.

Athol Fugard

For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul.

Athol Fugard

If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along.

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

If White men were not complaining, it would be an indication we weren't succeeding and making the inroads that we are.

Arthur Rubinstein

Sometimes when I sit down to practice and there is no one else in the room, I have to stifle an impulse to ring for the elevator man and offer him money to come in and hear me.

Arthur Rimbaud

There shall be poets! When woman's unmeasured bondage shall be broken, when she shall live for and through herself, man--hitherto detestable--having let her go, she, too, will be poet! Woman will find the unknown! Will her ideational worlds be different from ours? She will come upon strange, unfathomable, repellent, delightful things; we shall take them, we shall comprehend them.

Arthur Rimbaud

A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn't he?

Arnold Newman

I am convinced that any photographic attempt to show the complete man is nonsense. We can only show, as best we can, what the outer man reveals. The inner man is seldom revealed to anyone, sometimes not even the man himself.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Man's true end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him for ever.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.

Arnold J. Toynbee

The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but it can fulfill life's purpose.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

Arnold Bennett

The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.

Arnold Bennett

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely

Arnold Palmer

I would like to say, however, that a man might be walking around lucky and not know it unless he tries.

Antony Jay

Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young.