Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Duke

The truth is there are two hundred white women raped in America by a black man for every one black woman raped by whites.

David Duchovny

In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Don't be economic Girlie-Men

Ben Webster

I don't want to play out of another man's bag.

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.

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.

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.

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 J. Toynbee

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

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.

Antonin Artaud

[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.

Antonin Artaud

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

Antonin Artaud

And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses. For a madman is also a man whom society did not want to hear and whom it wanted to prevent from uttering certain intolerable truths.

Frederic Bastiat

We cannot doubt that self-interest is the mainspring of human nature. It must be clearly understood that this word is used here to designate a universal, incontestable fact, resulting from the nature of man, and not an adverse judgment, as would be the word selfishness.

Derek Jarman

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.

Derek Bok

An educated man must have a "curiosity in exploring the unfamiliar and unexpected, an open-mindedness in entertaining opposing points of view, tolerance for the ambiguity that surrounds so many important issues, and a willingness to make the best decisions he can in the face of uncertainty and doubt".

Denzel Washington

I've worked in a factory. I was a garbage man. I worked in a post office. It's not that long ago. I like to think that I'm just a regular guy.

Deborah Kerr

If a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.

Orlando Bloom

There are complications in relationships between men and women. There always will be.

William Shakespeare

The fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the moon.

William Shakespeare

O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors.

William Shakespeare

Men have marble, women waxen, minds.

William Shakespeare

An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye; Give him a little earth for charity!

William Shakespeare

Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.

William Shakespeare

But since the affairs of men rests still incertain, Let's reason with the worst that may befall.

William Shakespeare

Let no such man be trusted.

Bill O'Reilly

Does anyone know where the Best Men are? I hope they're not in the parking lot stealing our hubcaps.

Bill Moyers

There is a historic strain of dominion theology which says, taking its references from the Psalms, that man is made just a little lower than God, and that we are the crown of creation. That interpretation has come at the expense of the one that says when God, in the story of Noah, intervened to save human life against the flood, against the acts of nature, He did not stop with human beings. He made sure that every kind of animal was represented twice on that ark.