“Women still dream and hope, pin their emotions on some man who doesn't reciprocate, and end up in confusion.”
Source: Passion and Purity
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Elisabeth Elliot 58
American missionary 1926–2015Related quotes
“A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.”
As quoted in FPA Book of Quotations : A New Collection of Famous Sayings (1952) by Franklin Pierce Adams
“It seems to me that those who complain of man's progress confuse ends with means.”
Ch III : The Tool
Terre des Hommes (1939)
Context: Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures — in this century, as in others, our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together. Do our dreamers hold that the invention of writing, of printing, of the sailing ship, degraded the human spirit?
It seems to me that those who complain of man's progress confuse ends with means. True, that man who struggles in the unique hope of material gain will harvest nothing worth while. But how can anyone conceive that the machine is an end? It is a tool. As much a tool as is the plough. The microscope is a tool. What disservice do we do the life of the spirit when we analyze the universe through a tool created by the science of optics, or seek to bring together those who love one another and are parted in space?
On the female gender (as quoted in https://www.zikoko.com/life/oldies/9-thought-provoking-quotes-from-the-literary-icon-buchi-emecheta/).
“A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are. ”
Source: Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
“Anyone who isn't confused doesn't really understand the situation.”
As quoted in The Improbable Irish (1969) by Walter Bryan
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl