“Can man be free if woman be a slave?”
Percy Bysshe Shelley The Revolt of Islam
Canto II, st. 43
The Revolt of Islam (1817)
“Because if a woman's heart was free a man might have hope.”
— Bram Stoker, book Dracula
Source: Dracula
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“And it's the hope of hopes, it's the love of loves
It's the heart of every man
(Every man).”
Julie Gold (1956) American musician
From a Distance (1985)
Context: From a distance there is harmony
And it echoes through the land
And it's the hope of hopes, it's the love of loves
It's the heart of every man
(Every man). It's the hope of hopes, it's the love of loves
This is the song of every man.
Jacopo Sannazaro (1458–1530) Italian writer
Ne l'onde solca, e ne l'arena semina,
E'l vago vento spera in rete accogliere
Chi sue speranze fonda in cor di femina.
Ecloga Octava; "Plough the sands" found in Juvenal, Satires, VII. Jeremy Taylor, Discourse on Liberty of Prophesying (1647), Introduction.
Kirby Page (1890–1957) American clergyman
Source: Something More, A Consideration of the Vast, Undeveloped Resources of Life (1920), p. 75
“I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited.”
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
1980s, Second term of office (1985–1989), Farewell Address (1989)
Context: I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.
“Because sometimes people who seem good
end up being not as good as you might have hoped.”
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Variant: Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.”
Willa Cather book O Pioneers!
Part II, Ch. 4
O Pioneers! (1913)
“Thou large-brained woman and large-hearted man.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author
To George Sand, A Desire http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/ebbrowning/bl-ebbrown-togeorge1.htm (1844).
John Steinbeck book East of Eden
Variant: My father said she was a strong woman, and I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is almost indestructible.
Source: East of Eden