Men And Women Quotes - Page 39

• We are sometimes so busy being good angels that we neglect to be good men and women.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Angel, Men, Good Man

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• Like most men, my father is interested in action. And this is why he disappoints my mother when she tells him she doesn't feel well and he offers to take her to the doctor. He is focused on what he can do, whereas she wants sympathy.

  Deborah Tannen

  Mother, Father, Men

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• More men feel comfortable doing "public speaking," while more women feel comfortable doing "private" speaking.

  Deborah Tannen

  Men, Public Speaking, Feels

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• The chivalrous man who holds a door open or signals a woman to go ahead of him when he's driving is negotiating both status and connection.

  Deborah Tannen

  Men, Doors, Connections

  Deborah Tannen (2013). “You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation”, p.34, Harper Collins

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• Keeping the peace with the particular man in one's life becomes more essential than battling the mass male culture.

  Susan Faludi

  Men, Males, Essentials

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• The economic victims of the era are men who who know someone has made off with their future- and they suspect the thief is a woman.

  Susan Faludi

  Men, Thieves, Eras

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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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 such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman! No human being is unimportant. My inspiration comes in opening opportunities that all alike may be free to live life to the fullest.

  Samuel Gompers

  Live Life, Inspiration, Opportunity

  Samuel Gompers (1957). “Seventy years of life and labor: an autobiography”

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• Prayer, the basic exercise of the spirit, must be actively practiced in our private lives. The neglected soul of the human being must be made strong enough to assert itself once more. For if the power of prayer is again released and used in the lives of common men and women; if the spirit declares its aims clearly and boldly, there is yet hope that our prayers for a better world will be answered.

  Alexis Carrel

  Strong, Prayer, Exercise

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• Self-respecting men and women think about the consequences of their actions-and are willing to take responsibility for them.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Responsibility, Men, Thinking

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• 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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• Not every collision, not every punctilious trajectory by which billiard-ball complexes arrive at their calculable meeting places lead to reaction. ... Men (and women) are not as different from molecules as they think.

  Roald Hoffmann

  Men, Thinking, Molecules

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• The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Believe, Men, Years

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.34, Jazzybee Verlag

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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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• I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation of social injustice.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Men, Sorrow, Bitterness

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.5, 谷月社

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• Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. It is an added good fortune to have parents who take a personal part in the great movements of their time. I am glad and thankful that this was my case.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Struggle, Men, Parent

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2016). “My Own Story”, p.9, The Floating Press

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• There's something every woman wants, and that's a man to blame.

  Philip Roth

  Men, Want, Blame

  Philip Roth (2013). “The Counterlife”, p.75, Macmillan

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• The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

  James G. Frazer

  Family, Mother, Men

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amidst the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.

  Charles A. Beard

  Men, Challenges, Humanity

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• It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.

  Eugenie Clark

  Men, Long Ago, Growing

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• Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.

  Eleanor Bron

  Men, Differences, Perfection

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Men, People, Giving

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.187, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Yes, women, and men, have to be open to love, because if we're not open then there's no way for us to find happiness. But you can be open to it and still have no control over when it's going to happen.

  Debra Messing

  Happiness, Love Is, Men

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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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