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Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.
-- Agnes Smedley -
And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.
-- Agnes Smedley -
Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man ... the highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature.
-- Agnes Smedley -
I see myself as a man who is searching for meaning in life. This is rather different from being a staunch believer in something. A believer is someone who senses a consciousness or a direction and believes in it. The one who searches for meaning has not found the direction yet.
-- Aharon Appelfeld -
Tell me, if you thought a man had a tendresse for you, but he wasn't doing anything about it. And you wanted to hurry him up a little so you made a move, an unmistakable move; one that nobody could pretend had been a misunderstanding. And he - he ignored it - ignored you. What would you feel?
-- Ahdaf Soueif -
You know, I've been thinking: all the women in the books you like -- Sartre and Camus and all that -- they don't really exist. Not as people. They're only there to wait for the men. To love them and be loved back or not -- mostly not; to be beaten up or killed; to appear as a face on the wall of Meurseault's cell--
-- Ahdaf Soueif -
And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now.
-- Ahmed Chalabi -
I wanted to have a good relationship. One that's romantic and dramatic, like in the movies. But I finally became a woman at 17 and learned that men aren't really that simple.
-- Ai Yazawa -
Trapnest means “The Trapped Den†Once we enter it, we can’t get out by our own means I thought that that name could only come from a man who love having power over other.Â
-- Ai Yazawa -
Even now, sometimes on street corners... when I meet someone, I see your shadow. I'm sure that even now, you're still wearing that man's cologne... so you can sleep, even alone...
-- Ai Yazawa -
If a boy, if a man, asks you if you're all right and you say yes, he'll always believe you and get on with what he wants to do. It's just the way they're made.
-- Aidan Chambers -
The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God's victory over him.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
The problem of why God created the universe still troubles thinking men; but if we cannot know why, we can at least know that He did not bring His worlds into being to meet some unfulfilled need in Himself, as a man might build a house to shelter him against the winter cold or plant a field of corn to provide him with necessary food. The word 'necessary' is wholly foreign to God.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
The meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority. He has accepted God's estimate of his own life: In himself, nothing; In God, everything. He knows well that the world will never see him as God sees him and he has stopped caring.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
The man that believes will obey; failure to obey is convincing proof that there is no true faith present. To attempt the impossible God must give faith or there will be none, and He gives faith to the obedient heart only.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So if God answers prayer it's because God is good. From His goodness, His lovingkindness, His good-natured benevolence, God does it! That's the source of everything.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
The man who has made God his dwelling place will always have a safe habitation.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent in the divine nature and appears to us as a self-caused propensity to pity the wretched, spare the guilty, welcome the outcast, and bring into favor those who were before under just disapprobation. Its use to us sinful men is to save us and make us sit together in heavenly places to demonstrate to the ages the exceeding riches of God's kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. If we understand our first and sole duty to consist of loving God supremely and loving everyone, even our enemies, for God's dear sake, then we can enjoy spiritual tranquility under every circumstance.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Men are free to decide their own moral choices, but they are also under the necessity to account to God for those choices.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
To be entirely safe from the devil's snares the man of God must be completely obedient to the Word of the Lord. The driver on the highway is safe, not when he reads the signs but when he obeys them.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
When men no longer fear God, they transgress His laws without hesitation. The fear of consequences is no deterrent when the fear of God is gone.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
If a man has only correct doctrine to offer me, I am sure to slip out at the first intermission to seek the company of someone who has seen for himself how lovely is the face of Him who is the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley. Such a man can help me, and no one else can.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
God is never impressed with what a man can do. He is more concerned with what a man is.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Every ransomed man owes his salvation to the fact that during his days of sinning, God kept the door of mercy open.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Let the average man be put to the proof on the question of who is above, and his true position will be exposed. Let him be forced into making a choice between God and money, between God and men, between God and personal ambition, God and self, God and human love, and God will take second place every time.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
The natural man must know in order to believe; The spiritual man must believe in order to know
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
What is of man uses manipulation to conform. What is of #God uses implantation to transform.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
I believe that entertainment and amusements are the work of the Enemy to keep dying men from knowing they're dying; and to keep enemies of God from remembering that they're enemies.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
The yearning to know what cannot be known, to comprehend the incomprehensible, to touch and taste the unapproachable, arises from the image of God in the nature of man. Deep calleth unto deep, and though polluted and landlocked by the mighty disaster theologians call the Fall, the soul senses its origin and longs to return to its source.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
The Church has surrendered her once lofty concept of God and has substituted for it one so low, so ignoble, as to be utterly unworthy of thinking, worshiping men. This she has not done deliberately, but little by little and without her knowledge; and her very unawareness only makes her situation all the more tragic.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
The author squares man's depravity with still being made in the image of God with this word picture. A vase that has held beautiful roses though now broken, will nevertheless hold something of the fragrance it once contained.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
The experiences of men who walked with God in olden times agree to teach that the Lord cannot fully bless the a man until He has first conquered him. The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God's victory over him.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Jesus calls us to his rest, and meekness is His method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
When we try to focus our thought upon One who is pure uncreated being we may see nothing at all, for He dwelleth in light that no man can approach unto. Only by faith and love are we able to glimpse Him as He passes by our shelter in the cleft of the rock.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle.
-- Aime Cesaire -
Beware, my body and my soul, beware above all of crossing your arms and assuming the sterile attitude of the spectator, for life is not a spectacle, a sea of griefs is not a proscenium, and a man who wails is not a dancing bear.
-- Aime Cesaire -
When I watch 'Mad Men' and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now, I feel that I've lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
-- Aimee Mullins -
What is my task? To get the gospel around the world in the shortest possible time to every man and woman and boy and girl!
-- Aimee Semple McPherson -
Maybe the nails are a little stubby and gnawed on, but I definitely do not have man hands.
-- Aisha Tyler -
Actually way back when Abhishek and I were just co-actors, I kept telling him 'let's be a part of a troupe and go on a world tour'. And he kept on saying 'It's not the right time'. But I never thought that my wish will be fulfilled in such a grand way and that we will be part of the team as man and wife.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan -
One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its nature, he will suffer great pain. Another man understands that nature of the river is to change constantly, regardless of his likes and dislikes, and therefore he does not suffer. To know existence as this flow, empty of lasting pleasure, void of self, is to find that which is stable and free of suffering, to find true peace in the world.
-- Ajahn Chah -
It is best for ordinary men to have only one wife !
-- Akbar -
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
-- Akhenaton -
Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.
-- Akira Kurosawa -
I always check my harness before I do a stunt; I test-drive the cars I have to race or explode; I'm present at all pyrotechnical rehearsals; and I walk through everything step-by-step. No man should put their life in someone else's hands unless they have covered their own safety from all angles.
-- Akshay Kumar -
I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.
-- Al Capone -
I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man.
-- Al Capone -
We're in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong!
-- Al Dubin -
As someone who's spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda, I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
-- Al Franken -
A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.
-- Al Goldstein -
There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off.
-- Al Goldstein -
I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.
-- Al Goldstein -
Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal
-- Al Goldstein -
The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.
-- Al Goldstein -
David Agus is one of America's great doctors and medical researchers, a man dedicated to improving the health of as many people as he can. Written in a style and format that will truly engage readers, The End of Illness presents a dramatic, new way of thinking about our own health-a way that could lead to greatly improving the quality of life for millions, starting right now.
-- Al Gore -
Some of the most intriguing new research is in the area of extreme weather events and rainfall. A recent study by German scientists published in Climatic Change projects that extreme precipitation will increase significantly in regions that are already experiencing extreme rainfall. Man-made global warming has already increased the moisture content of the air worldwide, causing bigger downpours. Each additional degree of temperature increase causes another seven percent increase in moisture in the air, and even larger downpours when storm conditions trigger heavy rains and snows.
-- Al Gore -
The symbolism - and the substantive significance - of planting a tree has universal power in every culture and every society on Earth, and it is a way for individual men, women and children to participate in creating solutions for the environmental crisis.
-- Al Gore -
Judge Roberts is a brilliant lawyer, a brilliant judge. He is a very careful judge, a thoughtful judge. I would agree with what the President said earlier. He is a decent man. I think everybody who knows him likes him.
-- Al Gore -
I remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the South. I remember a time when one of my friends made a racist joke and another said, 'Hey man, we don't go for that anymore.'
-- Al Gore -
It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what's in a box score. A box score does not properly represent the most important thing - team play. It shows some guy scoring 27 points, but it doesn't show that my 27-point man let his guy score 30.
-- Al McGuire -
I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
-- Al Pacino -
On any given Sunday you're gonna win or you're gonna lose. The point is -- can you win or lose like a man?
-- Al Pacino -
Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
-- Al Pacino -
Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment.
-- Al Pacino -
I believe in absolute freedom of conscience for all men and equality of all churches, all sects and all beliefs before the law as a matter of right and not as a matter of favor. I believe in the absolute separation of church and state and in the strict enforcement of the Constitution that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof I believe that no tribunal of any church has any power to make any decree of any force in the law of the land, other than to establish the status of its own communicants within its own church.
-- Al Smith -
Be sincere. Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.
-- Al Smith -
If a man must make himself appear cheerful; he must know why he is miserable.
-- Al Smith -
The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man, and give some back.
-- Al Swearengen -
I wouldn't trust a man who wouldn't try to steal a little.
-- Al Swearengen -
Men have such a good opinion of themselves, of their mental superiority and intellectual depth; they believe themselves so skilled in discerning the true from the false, the path of safety from those of error, that they should be forbidden as much as possible the perusal of philosophic writings.
-- Al-Ghazali -
There are two kinds of Riya - Showing off-Ostentation ie pure ostentation and adulterated ostention. In pure ostentation "Riya" a man does a good deed only for worldly benefit. In Adulterated ostentation, a man does a good deed with the intention of reaping the benefits of the world as well as of the Hereafter.
-- Al-Ghazali -
The mere physical man is like the ant crawling on the paper, who observes black lettering and attributes its production to the pen and nothing more.
-- Al-Ghazali -
Anyone who refuses to marry is shrinking his farmwork, wasting the seed, and leaving idle the appropiate tools created by God; he sins against the purpose of creation and wisdom visible in the evidence of natural structure. The man who refuses to marry has severed a chain of being, a previously unbroken chain linking his own existence to that of Adam.
-- Al-Ghazali -
Know, O beloved, that man was not created in jest or at random, but marvelously made and for some great end. Although he is not form everlasting, yet he lives for ever; and though his body is mean and earthly, yet his spirit is lofty and divine
-- Al-Ghazali -
Man's nature is made up of four elements, which produce in him four attributes, namely, the beastly, the brutal, the satanic, and the divine. In man there is something of the pig, the dog, the devil, and the saint.
-- Al-Ghazali -
Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj [African Blacks] for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of creatures in character and temperament.
-- Al-Jahiz -
O fools, awake! The rites ye sacred hold Are but a cheat contrived by men of old Who lusted after wealth and gained their lust And died in baseness-and their law is dust.
-- Al-Maʿarri -
The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.
-- Al-Maʿarri -
Give a drink of water as alms to the birds which go forth at morning, and deem that they have a better right than men [to thy charity]. For their race brings not harm upon thee in any wise, when thou fearest it from thine own race.
-- Al-Maʿarri -
Cursed in earth and subdued by death, man found himself beset by time, and his instincts put to the test. Only then, he realized that with love he could survive, and that for a certain purpose he would toil. For those whom my love can not immune from death, are dedicated these paintings, in the hope they may express in drawing the reality of a resonant mind.
-- Ala Bashir -
To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers
-- Alain Badiou -
I had fought on behalf of man against the sea, but I realized that it had become more urgent to fight on behalf of the sea against men.
-- Alain Bombard -
After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.
-- Alain de Botton -
According to Montaigne, it was the oppressive notion that we had complete mental control over our bodies, and the horror of departing from this portrait of normality, that had left the man unable to perform sexually.
-- Alain de Botton -
An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.
-- Alain de Lille -
A man obsessed: obsessed with perfection, sharing, aesthetics, taste, savoir-faire, and much more.
-- Alain Ducasse -
Each man is contained and constrained, on entering social life, to fit his own life in, just as he fits his words and thoughts into a language that was formed without and before him and which is impervious to his power. Entering the game, as it were, whether of belonging to a nation or of using a language, a man enters arrangements which it does not fall to him to determine, but only to learn and respect the rules.
-- Alain Finkielkraut -
Every man needs to find a peak, a mountain top or a remote island of his own choosing that he reaches under his own power alone in his own good time.
-- Alain Gerbault -
Deux me' tresou un peu plusse parent donc l'homme de la femme. Two metres, or a little more, separates a man from a woman.
-- Alain Robbe-Grillet