Quotes about herring (9963 quotes, page 99)

“But one no longer wonders when one realizes that in the higher classes there is an unerring instinct of what tends to maintain and of what tends to destroy the organization by virtue of which they enjoy their privileges. The fashionable lady had certainly not reasoned out that if there were no capitalists and no army to defend them, her husband would have no fortune, and she could not have her entertainments and her ball-dresses. And the artist certainly does not argue that he needs the capitalists and the troops to defend them, so that they may buy his pictures. But instinct, replacing reason in this instance, guides them unerringly. And it is precisely this instinct which leads all men, with few exceptions, to support all the religious, political, and economic institutions which are to their advantage.”

Leo Tolstoy The Kingdom of God Is Within You

Source: The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894), Chapter XII, Conclusion—Repent Ye, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at Hand

Support , Fashion , Men

“This world taught woman nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did not know how to think. It forbade her to speak in public, and said the sex had no orators. It denied her the schools, and said the sex had no genius. It robbed her of every vestige of responsibility & then called her weak.”

Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947) American social reformer, suffragist (1859-1947)

From a 1902 speech as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association quoted in "The Wings of Dawn" by Louise Scarmato (2013)

World , Sex , Thinking , School

“The soul completely dominated by its desire for spiritual instruction is never sated.It is because of this that Wisdom says of herself, 'Those who eat Me will still be hungry' (Eccles. 24:21); while the Lord, who has instilled this divine desire in the soul, says of Mary who chose 'what is best' that it will not be taken away from her (cf. Luke 10:42).”

Gregory Palamas (1296–1359) Monk and archbishop

Source: To the Most Reverend Nun Xenia (c. 1344), p. 295

Soul , Wisdom

“Gerry had once said to her in the middle of an argument that he didn't believe in souls but if, just perchance, they did exist, hers would be like a razor. She had been made that way by the Catholic Church, he said. Inflexible, narrow, capable of doing terrible damage by her adherence to rules and systems. But she totally objected. She told him that if she was a good person at all, it had come from her religion. If she had any sense of justice and fairness, any concept of equality, then it had come from the Church.”

Bernard MacLaverty book Midwinter Break

Ch 11 - p.217
Novels, Midwinter Break (2017)

Soul , Religion , Justice , Personality

“Marjorie is wrong, and her intentional decision to compare the horrors of the Holocaust with wearing masks is appalling. The Holocaust is the greatest atrocity committed in history. The fact that this needs to be stated today is deeply troubling.”

Marjorie Taylor Greene (1974) American politician and businesswoman from the state of Georgia

Statement from House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy https://republicanleader.house.gov/leader-mccarthy-condemns-comparisons-to-the-holocaust/, 25 May 2021
About

History , Decision

“If a woman has chosen to gift a fetus with life, it does not necessarily follow that she is obligated to continue to support it with her body, especially if that support threatens the woman’s life. A woman’s body is her property, to do with as she wishes.”

Mary Ruwart (1949) American scientist and libertarian activist

Source: Short Answers to the Tough Questions: How to Answer the Questions Libertarians Are Often Asked, (2012), p. 141

Support , Life

“I suspect I only really liked her because she liked me first.”

Tim Winton book Breath

Source: Breath (2008), Ch.18 - p.89

“I didn't even know why I liked her. She was just there. I was used to her.”

Tim Winton (1960) Australian writer

Part I, Ch.9 - p.77
The Shepherd's Hut (2018)

“It was at this time that the suggestion of studying medicine was first presented to me, by a lady friend. This friend finally died of a painful disease, the delicate nature of which made the methods of treatment a constant suffering to her. She once said to me,'You are fond of study, have health and leisure; why not study medicine? If I could have been treated by a lady doctor, my worst sufferings would have been spared me.'”

Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910) England-born American physician, abolitionist, women's rights activist

But I at once repudiated the suggestion as an impossible one, saying that I hated everything connected with the body, and could not bear the sight of a medical book.
... My favourite studies were history and metaphysics, and the very thought of dwelling on the physical structure of the body and its various ailments filled me with disgust.
pp. 27–28 https://books.google.com/books?id=GHkIAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA27
Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women (1895)

Pain , Study , Time , Disease

“In the hood, even if you're not a hardcore criminal, crime is in your life in some way or another. There are degrees of it. It's everyone from the mom buying some food that fell off the back of a truck to feed her family, all the way up to the gangs selling military-grade weapons and hardware. The hood made me realize that crime succeeds because crime does the one thing the government doesn't do: crime cares. Crime is grassroots. Crime looks for the young kids who need support and a lifting hand. Crime offers internship programs and summer jobs and opportunities for advancement. Crime gets involved in the community. Crime doesn't discriminate.”

Trevor Noah book Born a Crime

page 209
Born a Crime

Family , Food , Support , Communication

“A few Christian men I've met seem to think they are somehow robbed of their manhood if their wife has a job, and it's even worse if she has a serious career of her own. That's a foolish attitude. At the same time, what is even worse is a man whose wife is compelled to work because her husband refused to get a job.”

William G. Boykin (1948) Recipient of the Purple Heart medal

Source: Man to Man: Rediscovering Masculinity in a Challenging World (2020), p. 17

Thinking , Time , Men

“The foreign policy of England should be to maintain peace, not only for herself but between the powers of the world. This should be her policy, not only because she can have no interest in a change of the state of possession of the several powers...but because she has the most extensive commercial relations depending upon peace with each and all the powers of the world, the interruption of which must be injurious to her prosperity.”

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852) British soldier and statesman

Letter to John Wilson Croker (30 September 1833), quoted in L. J. Jennings (ed.), The Croker Papers: The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LL.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty from 1809 to 1830, Vol. II (1884), p. 218

Peace , Dependency , Relation ships , World

“Salem was beautiful and historical, but something about being continually reminded of the witch trials didn’t sit well with her. She’d fight a man wielding a machete way before fighting witch hunters.”

Jason Tanamor (1975) Filipino-American Author and Writer

Source: Novels, Vampires of Portlandia (2020), Chapter 15

Way , Beauty , Fight

“Lord yes, in a certain sense it was a preventive war, [motivated by] the constant threat of attack, the greater likelihood of its inevitability in the future, and by the military's claim: today war is still possible without defeat, but not in two years! Yes, the generals. It could only have been avoided by a rapprochement with England, that is still my conviction. But after we had decided for a [common] policy with Austria, we could not desert her in such danger.”

Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg (1856–1921) German chancellor during World War I

Remarks to Conrad Haussmann (24 February 1918), quoted in Konrad H. Jarauschl, ‘The Illusion of Limited War: Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg's Calculated Risk, July 1914’, Central European History, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Mar., 1969), p. 48

Motivation , War , Future , Sense

“The Italian Government has now written her perfidy indelibly with letters of blood on the pages of history.”

Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg (1856–1921) German chancellor during World War I

Speech to the Reichstag (28 May 1915), quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (1941), p. 222

History

“Large families were really in fashion [in Victorian England], they were seen as a status symbol, they were seen as an example of how the man was very virile. The reality was that, like Victoria, people were pregnant repeatedly. Every three months or so they might fall pregnant, so the average woman was pretty much pregnant or about to be pregnant for most of her early married life.”

Kate Williams (historian) (1974) British historian

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b06hh19v
Peter Snow Returns to the Future: Kate Williams
BBC
16 October 2015
2 May 2021

Family , Reality , Fashion , Life

“I grew up watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer and used to dream that I would grow up to be just like her. In a way, Teen Wolf has a lot of those kinds of characters. We're just kids by day, and yet we're trying to fight demons and werewolves and bad people and save people that we love.”

Arden Cho (1985) Korean-American actress and singer

As quoted in "Arden Cho Talks Teen Wolf, Her Audition Process, Her Favorite Scene and Episode This Season, and More" in Collider (3 March 2014) https://collider.com/arden-cho-teen-wolf-interview/

People , Wolf , Way , Dreams

“You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.”

John Green book The Fault in Our Stars

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

Hurt , Hope , World

“If you show her too much favor she will be punished. If you touch her, we’re all dead,” Ty said.
“Why?”

Neal Stephenson book Seveneves

Einstein asked.
“Because this is one of those cultures that is psychotic about female reproductive organs.”
“Five Thousand Years Later” (p. 776)
Seveneves (2015), Part Three

Dead

“As a novelist, my job is to play a role as an endoscope to look inside of a person, while also showing him or her with an external camera.”

Miri Yu (1968) Zainichi Korean writer

As quoted in "Novelist Yu Miri: Olympics not helping Fukushima rebuilding" in ABC News (23 December 2020) https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/novelist-yu-miri-olympics-helping-fukushima-rebuilding-74877816

Personality

“When she opened her eyes, Veronika did not think "this must be heaven."”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Heaven would never use a fluorescent tube to light a room, and the pain — which started a fraction of a second later — was typical of the Earth. Ah, that Earth pain — unique, unmistakable.
Veronika Decides to Die (1998)

Thinking

“You have heard the queen's advice. My gift is below. Would you wait to see it until you have decided what you will do with hers?”

Megan Whalen Turner book A Conspiracy of Kings

Eugenides to Sophos
A Conspiracy of Kings (2010)

Waiting

“Thinking, waiting and distance from a woman increase the desire to have her by your side.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

From the Quotes http://www.prevale.net/quotes.html page of the official website of Prevale
Original: (it) Il pensiero, l'attesa e la distanza da una donna aumentano il desiderio di averla al tuo fianco.
Source: prevale.net

Waiting , Thinking

“God of grace and God of glory,
On Thy people pour Thy power.
Crown Thine ancient church's story,
Bring her bud to glorious flower.
Grant us wisdom, grant us courage,
For the facing of this hour,
For the facing of this hour.”

Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878–1969) American pastor

Source: God of Grace and God of Glory (1930)

God , People , Flowers , Courage

“A life cut tragically short, but with more colour perhaps than one may find in her work.”

Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941) Hungarian Indian artist

Life

“I wish I was a little bit taller
I wish I was a baller
I wish I had a girl who looked good, I would call her
I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat, and a six four Impala.”

Skee-Lo (1973) American rapper

"I Wish"
I Wish, 1995

Girl

“Best friend is the one who with her love senses where it is necessary and rushes to support you overwhelmingly without you saying anything.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) L'amico del cuore è colui che con il suo amore intuisce dove è necessario ed accorre a sostenerti prepotentemente senza che tu dica niente.
Source: prevale.net

Support , Sense , Love

“She, of a particular and unique beauty. The features of his face and her body are of a subtle transgression that blends between sweetness and sensuality. Her charm smells of woman.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Lei, di una particolare ed unica bellezza. I lineamenti del suo volto e del suo corpo sono di una sottile trasgressione che si fonde tra dolcezza e sensualità. Il suo fascino profuma di donna.
Source: prevale.net

Beauty

“The beauty of a woman attracts you, her intelligence fascinates you, sympathy intrigues you, but the difficulty in having her seduces you.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) La bellezza di una donna ti attrae, la sua intelligenza ti affascina, la simpatia ti incuriosisce, ma la difficoltà ad averla ti seduce.
Source: prevale.net

Beauty , Intelligence

“The woman is a divinity. First of all: her happiness.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) La donna è una divinità. Prima di tutto: la sua felicità.
Source: prevale.net

Happiness

“What makes a woman fascinating is her rebellious soul.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Ciò che rende affascinante una donna è la sua anima ribelle.
Source: prevale.net

Soul

“Thinking, waiting and distance from a woman increase the desire to have her by your side.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Waiting , Thinking

“When we walk away from communion with the Church, what are we saying to the Jesus Who entrusted His words and His sacraments to her bishops and saints? Has His promise to be with His Church to the end of the world ceased to be true? Can He Who is The Truth be entangled in a tissue of lies?”

Liam Cary (1947) Fifth bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Baker

The Dark Sea of Scandal https://www.dioceseofbaker.org/documents/2019/2/100718.pdf (October 7, 2018)

Truth , World

“In the dusk I saw her smile, that incredible female smile. It is called wisdom but it isn't that but rather an understanding that makes wisdom unnecessary.”

John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent

Source: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part One, Chapter VII

Understanding , Smile , Wisdom

“God protect Germany. God have mercy on my soul. My final wish is that Germany should recover her unity and that, for the sake of peace, there should be an understanding between East and West. I wish peace to the world.”

Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893–1946) German general

Last words as quoted in The Execution of Nazi War Criminals (1946) by Kingsbury Smith of the International News Service

Soul , God , Peace , Understanding

“Any woman whether married or unmarried, if she goes along with a man, with or without her consent, should be hanged. Both should be hanged.”

Abu Azmi (1955) Indian politician

Apr 2014. As quoted/attributed in : Another SP leader’s rape remark sparks outrage https://web.archive.org/web/20140618193004/http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/another-sp-leaders-rape-remark-sparks-outrage/article5902266.ece

“A woman’s beauty lies in her piety and loyalty. When a man leaves the house, he leaves his trust, wealth, love and respect in her hands and if she opens that up to another man, then I’m sorry to say, I don’t consider that a woman but rather a non-woman.”

Khalil-ur-Rehman Qamar (1961) Pakistani writer

Housing , Loyalty , Love , Wealth

“Weep not for little Leonie,
Abducted by a French Marquis!
Though loss of honour was a wrench,
Just think how it's improved her French.”

Harry Graham (1874–1936) British writer

Compensation
Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes (1899)

Loss , Thinking

“There is no reason whatever to assume that woman, in her climb to emancipation, has been, or will be, helped by the ballot.”

Emma Goldman book Anarchism and Other Essays

Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), Woman Suffrage

Help

“Ascending to heaven is the greatest trip in every good Muslim's existence. I don't believe that the Prophet meant this trip to be an exception. I think that a woman can get into Heaven, as long as she's accompanied by a man of her family.”

Salah Al Budair (1971) Imaam at Masjid al-Nabawi

Here is why Saudi Arabia is a pro at passing anti-women rulings https://www.indiatoday.in/fyi/story/here-is-how-saudi-arabia-is-a-pro-at-passing-anti-women-rulings-318843-2016-04-19 (19th April 2016)

Family , Thinking

“Mother Nature doesn’t want power-tripping greedheads looking up her skirts.”

Rudy Rucker book Mathematicians in Love

Source: Mathematicians in Love (2006), Chapter 2, “Cone Shell Aliens” (p. 59)

Nature

“Anyone who’d volunteer for alien domination doesn’t really deserve to have his or her freedom.”

Rudy Rucker book Master of Space and Time

Source: Master of Space and Time (1984), Chapter 16, “Blue Gluons” (p. 126)

Freedom

“The first thing a psychologist learns is to keep her mouth shut around laymen.”

James Blish (1921–1975) American author

Source: …And All the Stars a Stage (1971; [serialized in 1960]), Chapter 13 (p. 180)

Learning

“Yes, warn her! Warn her that I’ve decided to put an end to her existence. Life is nothing but a river destined to dry itself, a source kept luxuriant for a few years by the rain that falls from our own eyes.”

Menotti Lerro (1980) Italian poet

Donna Giovanna, Act II, scene ii.
Theater Quotes

Life

“If you want understand how a woman loves you just have to listen her words backwards. If you want to understand how a man loves, when he talks about love you must close your ears.”

Menotti Lerro (1980) Italian poet

Donna Giovanna, Act I, scene ii.
Theater Quotes

Love , Understanding

“We have to thank our mother Eve. Without her, we wouldn't be here enjoying life.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Life

“If the life of one girl changes through education, she changes three families – one, her own, second the in which she gets married into, and third the one she builds. This moves the nation on its path to progress.”

Vinod Gupta (1946) American businessman

Your Story, How this Indian-born American ensured his village in UP got the educational institutes it deserves, Shinjini, Chowdhury, September 3, 2018 https://yourstory.com/2018/09/vinod-gupta-up-education,

Family , Girl , Education , Life

“Any woman who tries to influence a man in subtle ways is a fool. Every woman should influence her man, but she should do it as a full and open partner—and not in some secret fashion.”

Martha Beall Mitchell (1918–1976) Wife of American politician

[Martha Mitchell, Saturday Evening Post, Fall 1971, 243, 2, 50-53]

Fools , Secret , Way , Fashion

“To the moonlight that is visiting me tonight, As a gift, I want to give my loving heart to you. Before the arrival, I want to decorate my courtyard with flowers. I want to lay stars in her path, so that the journey from the sky to the earth becomes easy for her and and I want to spend the whole night looking at her.”

Shabdon Ka Jahan

Star , Flowers , Night , Heart

“Here and there people sat at desks, carefully turning the pages of manuscripts, or unrolling scrolls and making notes. It comforted her. This is a place built to store books, by people who wanted to preserve books, and used by people who want to read those books. I am not alone.”

Genevieve Cogman (1972) novelist and game designer

Source: The Masked City (2015), Chapter 16 (p. 210)

People , Books , Reading

“Kiss her instinctively, slowly and softly, going further... intensely.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

From the Aphorisms http://www.prevale.net/aphorisms.html page of the official website of Prevale

Kiss

“A woman can earn her pardon for a good year of disobedience by a single adroit submission.”

Robert Louis Stevenson book The Rajah's Diamond

The Rajah's Diamond, Story of the Bandbox.
The New Arabian Nights (1882)

“A woman loves to be obeyed at first, although afterwards she finds her pleasure in obeying.”

Robert Louis Stevenson book The Suicide Club

The Suicide Club, Story of the Physician and the Saratoga Trunk.
The New Arabian Nights (1882)

Pleasure , Love

“As men, you stand at the center of the universe. You spout pearls of wisdom that shape the future of the world. So when your female friend comes to you, you might wonder: ‘Is she hoping to share her sadness with me? No, she must be hoping to learn something from me!’”

Yang Li (1992) Chinese stand-up comedian

Source: "The ‘Punchline Queens’ Ripping Into Chinese Comedy’s Boys’ Club" in Sixth Tone https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1006067/the-punchline-queens-ripping-into-chinese-comedys-boys-club (21 August 2020)

Learning , Universe , World , Sadness

“Notwithstanding my grandmother's long and faithful service to her owners, not one of her children escaped the auction block. These God-breathing machines are no more, in the sight of their masters, than the cotton they plant, or the horses they tend.”

Harriet Jacobs book Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Source: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (1861), p. 16

God , Children , Faith , Horse

“He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.”

Jesus (-7–30 BC) Jewish preacher and religious leader, central figure of Christianity

8:7 (King James Version)
New Testament, Gospel of John

“I am a woman and a woman of Africa. I am a daughter of Nigeria and if she is in shame, I shall stay and mourn with her in shame.”

Buchi Emecheta (1944–2017) author

Source: Buchi Emecheta speaking on being a Nigerian woman https://www.zikoko.com/life/oldies/9-thought-provoking-quotes-from-the-literary-icon-buchi-emecheta/.

Daughters

“Place is important to my writing; I believe that if a reader gets a clear picture of the place where a character is from, then they can understand what motivates the character, what limits him or her…”

Jesmyn Ward (1977) American writer

Source: On using the setting to frame her novels in “Jesmyn Ward: ‘So much of life is pain and sorrow and wilful ignorance’” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/nov/12/jesmyn-ward-sing-unburied-sing-interview-meet-author in The Guardian (2017 Nov 12)

Motivation , Understanding

“Perhaps things will become worse and then better. Perhaps there’s a small god up in heaven readying herself for us. Another world is not only possible, she’s on her way. Maybe many of us won’t be here to greet her, but on a quiet day, if I listen very carefully, I can hear her breathing.”

Arundhati Roy (1961) Indian novelist, essayist

Source: Articles, Come September (29 Sep 2002)

God , World , Way

“When Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, few people had the poor taste to ask what she had ever done, or even claimed to do, for the cause of peace. Her address to the ceremony of investiture did little to resolve any doubt on this score and much to increase it.”

Christopher Hitchens book The Missionary Position

Source: 2010s, 2011, The Missionary Position, Mother Theresa in Theory and Practice (2012)

People , Peace

“Life's not a bitch, life is a beautiful woman, You only call her a bitch 'cause she won't let you get that pussy, Maybe she didn't feel y'all shared any similar interests, Or maybe you're just an asshole who couldn't sweet-talk the princess,”

Aesop Rock (1976) American rapper

Source: "Daylight" from the album "Labor Days and Daylight"

Bitch , Princess , Beauty , Life

“Some auditions you get, and you feel like you already know the character. I got into her skin a little easier, and that's always a big draw. You don't have to struggle as much.”

Alisen Down (1976) Canadian actress

Source: BWW Interview: Alisen Down Chats about GRACEPOINT's Pillar of Integrity https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/BWW-Interview-Alisen-Down-Chats-about-GRACEPOINTs-Pillar-of-Integrity-20141118 (November 18, 2014 )

Drawing , Feeling

“I think I always try to go in with a very objective perspective at first. Inevitably, when playing someone like her, after a while you tend to really sympathize with her. It was very hard for me to divorce myself from that opinion.”

Tania Raymonde (1988) American actress

Source: Tania Raymonde: The Jodi Arias Trial ‘Unfolding In Real Time’ While FilmingLifetime Movie Was A ‘Trip’ https://hollywoodlife.com/2020/08/08/jodi-arias-lifetime-movie-tania-raymonde-interview/ (August 8, 2020)

Thinking

“To her who gives and takes back all, to nature, the man who is instructed and modest says, Give what thou wilt; take back what thou wilt. And he says this not proudly, but obediently and well pleased with her.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book X, 14

Nature

“I believe the new African woman is a woman who respects her man and knows that the man is the head of the family, but doesn’t lose herself in that either but commands and demands respect in her own way.”

Omotola Jalade Ekeinde (1978) Nigerian actress and singer

https://naijagists.com/omotola-jalade-ekeinde-wisdom-quotes-top-20-motivational-quotes-sayings-omosexy/ Omotola Jalade Ekehinde speaking on Career.

Family , Way

“A woman is not property, but a noble and free human being. No one can give her to anyone in exchange for a peace deal and/or to end animosity.”

Hibatullah Akhundzada (1961) leader of Afghanistan and Taliban

Source: Hibatullah Akhundzada (2021) cited in: " Taliban leader issues decree saying women are not property http://www.uniindia.com/~/taliban-leader-issues-decree-saying-women-are-not-property/World/news/2582615.html" in United News of India, 3 December 2021.

Peace

“Having regard to the use which Germany made of her great army, is there anything unjust in scattering that army, disarming it, making it incapable of repeating the injury which it has inflicted upon the world?”

David Lloyd George (1863–1945) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Prime Minister
Source: Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1919/jul/03/territorial-adjustments#S5CV0117P0_19190703_HOC_316 in the House of Commons on the Treaty of Versailles (3 July 1919)

World

“I am convinced that Nigeria should remain as one nation after 100 years despite her challenges because our common values overwhelm our differences.”

Dora Akunyili (1954–2014) Pharmacist and Government Official

Source: https://amp/s/dailypost.ng/2014/06/10/full-text-professor-dora-akunyilis-last-public-speech/%3famp=1 Dora's thoughts on Nigeria

“We find among the Indians the vestiges of the most remote antiquity .... We know that all peoples came there to draw the elements of their knowledge ... India, in her splendor, gave religions and laws to all the other peoples; Egypt and Greece owed to her both their fables and their wisdom.”

Pierre Sonnerat (1748–1814) French botanist (1748-1814)

Pierre Sonnerat: Voyage aux Indes orientales et a la Chine, Paris, 1782. Quoted in A Look at India From the Views of Other Scholars, by Stephen Knapp https://www.stephen-knapp.com/a_look_at_india_from_the_views_of_other_scholars.htm
Source: quoted in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Tribute_to_Hinduism.html?id=G3AMAQAAMAAJ

Drawing , People , Religion , Law

“I was writing to my wife when your letter arrived, and now I want to look at her portrait myself, seeing the great beauty it contains. I am such a devoted husband that other beautiful women now do nothing for me.”

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558) Holy Roman Emperor

Beauty , Women

“The modern historian of India must approach her as a living entity with a central continuous urge, of which the apparent life is a mere expression. Without such an outlook, it is impossible to understand India, which…stands today strong…determined not to be untrue to its ancient self.”

Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi (1887–1971) Indian independence movement activist, politician, writer and educationist (1887-1971)

Source: quoted in https://www.dharmadispatch.in/culture/revisiting-km-munshis-majestic-vision-for-writing-indias-history https://www.esamskriti.com/e/National-Affairs/For-The-Followers-Of-Dharma/History-Writing-And-Nationalism-1.aspx http://www.eng.vedanta.ru/library/prabuddha_bharata/August2005_editorial.php

Strong , Understanding , Life

“There was a looseness to this, beyond her experience of chatbots, but a wariness as well.”

William Gibson Jackpot trilogy

Source: Jackpot trilogy, Agency (2020), Chapter 3, "App Whisperer" (Verity reflecting on Eunice's conversational style)

“I will venture to claim that I have been an honest writer and a loyal Englishman. England has many worthier sons; but few who more dearly love her.”

Robert Blatchford (1851–1943) British writer and activist

Source: My Eighty Years (1931), p. 274

Love

“If forcing a woman to continue a pregnancy that will almost certainly kill her is impermissible, how different... to compel... a pregnancy that will probably shorten her life? Or... that will leave her life in shambles?”

Laurence Tribe (1941) American lawyer and law school professor

Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes (1990), Approaching Abortion Anew

Life

“Been alone so long
that I've forgotten what to do
how to make the whole thing right
and how to help if she's uptight
and when to run and when to fight...
how to make her stay the night -
that's if I ever knew.”

Judge Smith (1948) English songwriter, composer, performer

"Been Alone so Long"

Night , Help , Fight

“In vain would science scan and trace
Firmly her aspect. All the while,
There gleams upon her far-off face
A vague unfathomable smile.”

Alfred Austin (1835–1913) British writer and poet

Source: "Nature and the Book", Stanza XX; p. 69, At the Gate of the Convent (1885)

Smile , Science

“If Nature built by rule and square,
Than man what wiser would she be?
What wins us is her careless care,
And sweet unpunctuality.”

Alfred Austin (1835–1913) British writer and poet

Source: "Nature and the Book", stanza XVII; p. 68, At the Gate of the Convent (1885)

Nature

“Doth Nature draw me, 'tis because,
Unto my seeming, there doth lurk
A lawlessness about her laws,
More mood than purpose in her work.”

Alfred Austin (1835–1913) British writer and poet

Source: "Nature and the Book", stanza XV; p. 67, At the Gate of the Convent (1885)

Drawing , Law , Nature , Mood

“Know, Nature, like the cuckoo, laughs at law,
Placing her eggs in whatso nest she will.”

Alfred Austin (1835–1913) British writer and poet

Source: Savonarola (1881), Lorenzo de' Medici in Act I, sc. i; p. 14.

Law , Nature

“Miss my love today
as I miss the stars that shine above
telling me one day my love
will come to me again.
Miss my love, I'd say,
is the only thing that I can do.
I just can't live with someone new
reminding me of her.”

Gilbert O'Sullivan (1946) Irish singer-songwriter

"Miss My Love Today" (song)
Gilbert O'Sullivan, "Miss My Love Today" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02Sq7JLYWIE (song on YouTube)
Song lyrics

Star , Love

“Bureaucracy is a construction by which a person is conveniently separated from the consequences of his or her actions.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb book Skin in the Game

Source: Skin in the Game (2018), p. 12

Personality

“The Church is expected, even in the middle of human weakness and error, to guard, in obedience and veneration, the Gospel Christ has entrusted to her. The Pope is not the creator of the faith, but the custodian of the Gospel.”

Diego Causero (1940) Italian apostolic nuncio

Source: Pope is not creator of the faith, but custodian of the Gospel https://www.cirkev.cz/archiv/080425-pope-is-not-creator-of-the-faith-but-custodian-of-the-gospel (2008)

Faith , Christ , Error

“If Great Britain lost her Empire and India and her share in world trade and her sea power, she would be like a vast whale stranded in one your Scottish bays, which swam in upon the tide and then was left to choke and rot upon the sands. We should be like a great shop emporium in a district from which prosperity has for ever departed. We least of all peoples and races can afford to fail. Failure to us does not mean merely that we shall not improve. It means that we shall be ruined and frozen out.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Source: Rectorial address ("The present decline of Parliamentary government in Great Britain") to Edinburgh University (5 March 1931), quoted in The Times (6 March 1931), p. 19

Sea , Failure , People , World

“The evils and dangers of which I speak are of slow growth, and their cure can only be gradual. Unless Great Britain is able by a united and well-instructed effort to grapple with her economic problems, and unless she is worthy to be the heart of her world-wide establishment, you here in this hall today will live long enough to lose not only your inheritance, but your livelihood. The continuance of our present confusion and disintegration will reduce us within a generation, and perhaps sooner, to the degree of States like Holland and Portugal, which nursed valiant races and held great possessions, but were stripped of them in the crush and competition of the world. That would be a melancholy end to all the old glories and recent triumphs.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Source: Rectorial address ("The present decline of Parliamentary government in Great Britain") to Edinburgh University (5 March 1931), quoted in The Times (6 March 1931), p. 19

Problem , Effort , World , Evil

“Nature shouldn’t be able to do this, Sunday thought. It shouldn’t be able to produce something that resembled the work of directed intelligence, something artful, when the only factors involved were unthinking physics and obscene, spendthrift quantities of time. Time to lay down the sediments, in deluge after deluge, entire epochs in the impossibly distant past when Mars had been both warm and wet, a world deluded into thinking it had a future. Time for cosmic happenstance to hurl a fist from the sky, punching down through these carefully superimposed layers, drilling through these carefully superimposed layers, drilling the geological chapters like a bullet through a book. And then yesterday more time—countless millions of years—for wind and dust to work their callous handiwork, scouring and abrading, wearing the exposed layers back at subtly different rates depending on hardness and chemistry, util these deliberate-looking right-angled steps and contours began to assume grand and imperial solidity, rising from the depths like the stairways of the gods.
Awe-inspiring, yesterday. Sometimes it was entirely right and proper to be awed. And recognising the physics in these formations, the hand of time and matter and the nuclear forces underpinning all things, did not lessen that feeling. What was she, ultimately, but the end product of physics and matter? And what was her art but the product of physics and matter working on itself?”

Alastair Reynolds book Blue Remembered Earth

Source: Blue Remembered Earth (2012), Chapter 17 (pp. 292-293)

Dependency , God , Books , World

“Nothing is more devastating than a life without liberty. A life in which one can be forced into parenthood is just such a life. Rape is among the most profound denials of liberty, and compelling a woman to bear a rapist's child is an assault on her humanity. How different is it to force her to remain pregnant... because efforts at birth control accidentally failed?”

Laurence Tribe (1941) American lawyer and law school professor

Source: Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes (1990), Approaching Abortion Anew

Birth , Life , Effort

“I went to a garden party
to reminisce with my old friends
A chance to share old memories
and play our songs again
When I got to the garden party
they all knew my name
no one recognized me
I didn't look the same
But it's all right now
I learned my lesson well
You see ya can't please everyone
So ya got to please yourself
People came from miles around
Everyone was there
Yoko brought her walrus
There was magic in the air
N' over in the corner
much to my surprise
Mr Hughes hid in Dylan's shoes
wearing his disguise
But it's all right now
I learned my lesson well
You see, ya can't please everyone
So ya got to please yourself . . .”

Ricky Nelson (1940–1985) American musician (1940-1985)

- On Wikipedia: Garden Party (song)
- Play on YouTube: 'Garden Party' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JK0Z6IdLF4
Songs

People , Learning , Shoe , Memory

“Your woman: always love her as the only priority on Earth.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) La tua donna: amala sempre come unica priorità sulla Terra.
Source: prevale.net

Love

“I am awesome and you are just awe-struck
She's love-stricken, she's got her jaw stuck
From suckin' my dick—aw, fuck!”

Eminem (1972) American rapper and actor

"Seduction"
2010s, Recovery (2010)

Love

“Have you ever loved someone so much you'd give an arm for?
Not the expression, no, literally give an arm for?
When they know they're your heart and you know you are their armor
And you will destroy anyone who would try to harm her”

Eminem (1972) American rapper and actor

"When I'm Gone" (2005)
2000s

Heart , Love

“That party will go down to all time as the party that failed Australia in her hour of need.”

Billy Hughes (1862–1952) Australian politician, seventh prime minister of Australia

Source: Regarding the Australian Labor Party, as quoted in a speech https://electionspeeches.moadoph.gov.au/speeches/1917-billy-hughes during the 1917 federal election campaign (27 March 1917)

Time

“My own feminism is just human rights. I’m a woman who has rights to her own choices; I can do whatever I want whenever I want. It’s just that simple if I were a man it would be the same thing.”

Genevieve Nnaji (1979) Nigerian actress, producer, and director

Source: Views on feminism https://punchng.com/feminism-im-a-woman-who-makes-her-own-choices-says-actress-genevieve-nnaji/ on April 1st, 2019.

“The mistake we make after we have chased away the lie is because we love the truth so much, we make for her a beautiful and very comfortable bed.”

- Goa

Beauty , Truth , Lie , Love

“We’ve loved each other so long I’ve never been a man and not loved her.”

Sarah Perry

Source: The Essex Serpent

Love

“She is a mortal danger to all men. She is beautiful without knowing it, and possesses charms that she’s not even aware of. She is like a trap set by nature - a sweet perfumed rose in whose petals Cupid lurks in ambush! Anyone who has seen her smile has known perfection. She instills grace in every common thing and divinity in every careless gesture. Venus in her shell was never so lovely, and Diana in the forest never so graceful as my Lady when she strides through Paris!”

Edmond Rostand (1868–1918) French writer

Source: Cyrano de Bergerac

Perfection , Nature , Love , Men

“Her love was entire as a child’s, and though warm as summer it was fresh as spring.”

Thomas Hardy book Far from the Madding Crowd

Source: Far From The Madding Crowd

Love , Summer , Spring

“She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I don’t know what she was - anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink; no looking down, or looking back; I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her.”

Charles Dickens book David Copperfield

Source: David Copperfield

Love , Sense

“He feeds upon her face by day and night, And she with true kind eyes looks back on him, Fair as the moon and joyful as the light.”

Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) English poet

Source: An Artist’s Studio

Night , Light

“[L]egal challenges to undue restrictions on abortion procedures do not seek to vindicate some generalized notion of privacy; rather, they center on a woman’s autonomy to determine her life’s course, and thus to enjoy equal citizenship stature.”

Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Dissenting, Gonzales v. Carhart, 550 U.S. 124 (2007). As quoted in: Louise Melling (Deputy Legal Director and Director of Ruth Bader Ginsburg Center for Liberty, ACLU) (September 23, 2020): For Justice Ginsburg, Abortion Was About Equality. In: American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Archived https://web.archive.org/web/20220527144342/https://www.aclu.org/news/reproductive-freedom/for-justice-ginsburg-abortion-was-about-equality from the original https://www.aclu.org/news/reproductive-freedom/for-justice-ginsburg-abortion-was-about-equality on May 27, 2022.
2000s

Life

“It is essential to woman’s equality with man that she be the decisionmaker, that her choice be controlling. If you impose restraints that impede her choice, you are disadvantaging her because of her sex.”

Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

On Abortion. 1993 Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings. As quoted in: Olivia Waxman (August 2, 2018): Ruth Bader Ginsburg Wishes This Case Had Legalized Abortion Instead of Roe v. Wade. In: Time Magazine. Archived https://web.archive.org/web/20220527151841/https://time.com/5354490/ruth-bader-ginsburg-roe-v-wade/ from the original https://time.com/5354490/ruth-bader-ginsburg-roe-v-wade/ on May 27, 2022.
1990s

Sex

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Quotes about herring
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