Men And Women Quotes - Page 15

• In times of change and uncertainty, we need the spirit of jazz more than ever before, to bring people - especially young women and men - together, to nurture freedom and dialogue, to create new bridges of respect and understanding, for greater tolerance and cooperation.

  Irina Bokova

  Men, Bridges, People

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• When the brave men and women who serve our nation in uniform leave to deploy overseas, they dont just leave behind their family and friends, often times they leave behind jobs and livelihoods as well. After the sacrifices they have made, making sure that they have access to a good paying job to support their families when they return is the least we can do.

  Tim Walz

  Jobs, Sacrifice, Men

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• The Gadianton Robbers from the Book of Mormon are loose among us. The King-men, and women, are running our government. And, worst of all, we are blindly electing them, or appointing them so they can continue to destroy the things we cherish most.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Running, Kings, Women

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• While I never served in uniform, I fully understand the great service and sacrifice that our brave men and women have given to our country.

  Marc Veasey

  Country, Sacrifice, Men

  "Taking Veterans’ Concerns Seriously" by Rep. Marc Veasey, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2014.

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• I've always thought men and women are not too well suited to each other. It's inevitable that they should come together, but, again, how well suited are they to live together in the same house?

  Katharine Hepburn

  Men, House, Together

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• We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.

  George Eliot

  Disappointment, Breakfast, Middlemarch

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.291

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• There is nothing I should care more to do, if it were possible, than to rouse the imagination of men and women to a vision of human claims in those races of their fellow-men who most differ from them in customs and beliefs.

  George Eliot

  Men, Race, Imagination

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6957, Delphi Classics

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• Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love.

  George Eliot

  Mistake, Men, Genius

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch: Top Novelist Focus”, p.654, 谷月社

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• You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a world where myriads of men and women are ground by wrong and misery, and tainted with pollution.

  George Eliot

  Men, World, Suits

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.53

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• Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Spiritual, Men, Suffering

  Henry Ward Beecher (1870). “Familiar Talks on Themes of General Christian Experience”, p.233

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• For Nature is not unjust. She does not steal into the womb and like an evil fairy give her good gifts secretly to men and deny them to women. Men and women are born free and equal in ability and brain. The injustice begins after birth.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Men, Evil, Giving

  Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”

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• The best government in the world, the best religion, the best traditions of any people, depend upon the good or evil of the men and women who administer them.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Men, People, Evil

  Pearl S. Buck (1954). “My Several Worlds”

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• I do not believe there is any important difference between men and women - certainly not as much as they may be between one woman and another or one man and another.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Believe, Men, Differences

  Pearl S. Buck (2017). “Of Men and Women: How to Be for Each Other”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• The highest civilizations -- the longest to last and I believe the most successful in human terms -- are those which have come the closest to achieving real understanding and mutual appreciation between men and women.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Appreciation, Real, Believe

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• Nature I believe in. True art aims to, represent men and women, not as my little self would have them, but as they appear. My heroes and heroines I want not extreme types, all good or all bad; but human, mortal--partly good, partly bad. Realism I need. Pure mental abstractions have no significance for me.

  Ouida

  Art, Hero, Believe

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• Loud-dressing men and women have also loud characters.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Character, Men, Loud

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• I have observed, on board a steamer, how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation, because water has the power of washing away our sense of responsibility, and those who on land resemble the oak in their firmness behave like floating seaweed when on the sea.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Responsibility, Men, Sea

  Rabindranath Tagore (2015). “Letters to a Friend”, p.175, Routledge

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• They were all too tightly bound together, men and women, creatures wild and tame, flowers, fruits and leaves, to ask that any one be spared. As long as the whole continued, the earth could go about its business.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Flower, Men, Long

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• There are too many men and women; there is too little Humanity. ... There is a dearth of understanding, of nakedness of spirit. All of us are over-dressed; no man knows what heart beats in his neighbour's bosom.

  Anna Kingsford

  Heart, Men, Understanding

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• I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.

  Alice Walker

  Men, People, House

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.207, New Press, The

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• We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a life sentence, which they could neither revoke nor modify.

  Maya Angelou

  Hero, Men, Long

  Maya Angelou (1987). “All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes”, Vintage

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• ... no matter how great the differences are between men and women, the differences among members of the same sex are usually equally great if not greater.

  Joyce Brothers

  Sex, Men, Differences

  Joyce Brothers (1985). “What Evry Wom Know Men”, Ballantine Books

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• There are three fundamentals for human happiness - love and faith, and work which will produce at least a minimum of material security. These things must be made possible for all human beings, men and women alike.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Happiness, Men, Three

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1938). “My Days”

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• Money hasn't any value of its own; it represents the stored up energy of men and women and is really just someone's promise to pay a certain amount of that energy.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Money, Men, Promise

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (2010). “Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume One: On Wisdom and Virtues”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I am realizing once and for all the difference as far as I am concerned of women and men and the necessity for both. With a man, however tender he is, one is feeding him - one is always and eternally understanding, mothering, supplying him with faith in himself (not in you).

  May Sarton

  Men, Differences, Understanding

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