Men And Women Quotes - Page 23

• The lessons of great men and women are lost unless they reinforce upon our minds the highest demands which we make upon ourselves; they are lost unless they drive our sluggish wills forward in the direction of their highest ideas.

  Jane Addams

  Wisdom, Men, Ideas

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• Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of the newspapers; treat them to amplified band music, bright lights...and in next to no time you can reduce them to a state of almost mindless subhumanity. Never before have so few been in a position to make fools, maniacs, or criminals of so many.

  Aldous Huxley

  Money, Reading, Men

  Aldous Huxley (2010). “The Devils Of Loudun”, p.368, Random House

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• Well, men go to musicals. Women are the ones that buy the tickets for plays.

  John O'Hara

  Men, Play, Tickets

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• A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goes about without his trousers saying, 'see, I have had my testicles removed.

  Norman Lindsay

  Men, Testicles, Exposed

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• If she is pleasing to one man, a girl is taken care of.

  Propertius

  Girl, Taken, Men

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• There are very few men and women in whom a Universalist feeling is altogether lacking; its prevalence suggests that it must be part of our inborn nature and have a place in Nature's scheme of evolution.

  Arthur Keith

  Men, Feelings, Evolution

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• No man or woman in this dispensation will ever enter into the celestial kingdom of God without the consent of Joseph Smith...every man and woman must have the certificate of Joseph Smith, junior, as a passport to their entrance into the mansion where God and Christ are

  Brigham Young

  Men, Kingdoms, Juniors

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• After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.

  Barbara Deming

  Mean, Men, Names

  Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”

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• Normally, I've found in my life that the louder you speak, probably, the less of a fighter you are. All the fighters I've had a chance and the honor to serve with didn't pat themselves on the back, were pretty humble men and women.

  David Dewhurst

  Humble, Men, Honor

  "Dewhurst, Cruz appeal to bases on Texas runoff eve". www.foxnews.com. July 30, 2012.

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• When we launched If WeRanTheWorld, I said to my team, I want us to innovate in every aspect of how we design and operate this as a business venture, as much as the web platform itself - because I want us to design our own startup around the working lives that we would all like to live. Women and men alike.

  Cindy Gallop

  Team, Men, Design

  "How Cindy Gallop Broke Through the "Thick Layer of Men" and Became the Counterpoint to Porn". Interview with Leslie Bradshaw, www.forbes.com. August 10, 2011.

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• The greatest luck that I've had has been the ability to find men and women who came into my administration who worked with me and brought extraordinary talents that we were able to take full advantage of.

  John Engler

  Men, Luck, Able

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• Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's way.

  Laura Bush

  Country, War, Men

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• There is a certain element of complementarity between men and women that is biological by nature.

  Jack Kingston

  Men, Elements, Certain

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  Finally, let understand that when we stand together, we will always win. When men and women stand together for justice, we win. When black, white and Hispanic people stand together for justice, we win.

  Bernie Sanders

  Winning, Men, White

  FaceBook post by Bernie Sanders from Oct 09, 2016

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• Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.

  Jack Kingston

  Children, Men, Together

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• I don't do stunts and I don't think many actors do. For an actor to say they do their own stunts I don't think is very respectful of the profession of stunt men and women.

  Nick Stahl

  Men, Thinking, Actors

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• The fact is whether one looks at this [outsourcing] in terms of men and women, working men and women in this country who are simply being screwed, or whether one looks at this in terms of corporations who are benefiting, the fact is it is certainly not helping the American economy.

  Lou Dobbs

  Country, Men, Looks

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• God brings men [and women] into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse [teach and improve] them. [It is fair and appropriate to get excited about what those lessons and improvements to you will mean for the future happiness of you and those you care about.]

  John H Aughey

  Mean, Men, Deep Water

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• I have often been reminded of the wild duck that came down on migration into a barnyard and liked it so well that he stayed there. In the fall his erstwhile companions passed overhead and his first impulse was to rise and join them, but he had fed too well and could rise no higher than the eaves of the barn. The day came when his old fellow travelers could pass overhead without his even hearing their call. I have seen men and women who once mounted up with wings like eagles but are now content to live in the barnyard of this world.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Fall, Men

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• I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.

  Paul Auster

  Book, Writing, Men

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• Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.

  L. Neil Smith

  Summer, Men, Intelligent

  "Merchants of Fear". Speech to the Boulder County Libertarian Party, February 20, 1994.

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• Education of both men and women is a wonderful contraceptive.

  Henry W. Kendall

  Men, Wonderful, Contraceptives

  Henry W. Kendall (2013). “A Distant Light: Scientists and Public Policy”, p.233, Springer

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• I have a big problem when the sanctimonious, holier than thou congressmen and women go on national television for six hours and beat somebody up with a stick, and not because I'm 'Ms. Manners.' That's not what bothers me. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Glasses, People, House

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• There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.

  John Ralston Saul

  Silly, Men, Civilization

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• The proposal that men and women should be treated equally under the law is hardly a controversial concept.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Men, Law, Proposal

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