M Quotes
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“Men and women in their mutual attraction are driven to the very emptiness they are trying to avoid.”
“Men and women in their very essence -in their souls if you wish- have natural parity. (...) This was a relatively new idea at the time [of Shakespeare]. It ran counter to the teaching in the Bible -Eve's being made out of Adam's rib to be his helpmate -which was the basis for the idea, held for so long, that women do not have souls of their own but are dependent on their fathers' and husbands' .”
Source: Women of Will: Following the Feminine in Shakespeare's Plays
“Men and women just look at sex in very, very different ways.”
“Men and women live with a heart-deep uncertainty every morning when they wake. It is why they go to war, why they write poems, fall in and out of love, plan thefts on dark nights, or try to forestall them. Why they pray. Or refuse to pray. It is the uncertainty that shapes and defines our lives. The tears of the world, a longing for joy. Or even just safety. Just that.”
Source: Written on the Dark
“Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love.”
Source: Middlemarch: Top Novelist Focus
“Men and women make their own beauty or their own ugliness. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton speaks in one of his novels of a man "who was uglier than he had any business to be;" and, if we could but read it, every human being carries his life in his face, and is good-looking or the reverse as that life has been good or evil. On our features the fine chisels of thought and emotion are eternally at work.”
Source: Dreamthorp
“Men and women may speak the same language, but we interpret words differently.”
Source: Insights for Singles: Steps to Find Everlasting Love
“Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.”
Source: A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects
“Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century. It may then fairly be inferred, that, till society be differently constituted, much cannot be expected from education.”
Source: Vindication of the Rights of Women
“Men and Women of Christ magnify their callings without magnifying themselves.”
Source: Men and Women of Christ
“Men and women of every faithб and good people with none at allб sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life.”
“Men and women of God through the centuries have lived out this abiding truth. There are no heroes of the faith who did not live out this extravagant lavishing of their time on Jesus. When we examine their private lives, we see that they needed to abide for strength and for wisdom. They were addicted to extravagant time in the presence of Jesus because it gave them life and joy and was the only thing that fulfilled them.”
Source: Live Dead: The Journey
“Men and women of high professional standing were reduced to the status of vagrants, unable to find employment and forced to eat the bitter bread of public or private charity.”
“Men and women of integrity, character, and purpose have ever recognized a power higher than themselves and have sought through prayer to be guided by that power. Such has it ever been. So shall it ever be.”
“Men and women of the world, never again plan war! With this atomic bomb, war can only mean suicide for the human race. From this atomic waste the people of Nagasaki confront the world and cry out: No more war! Let us follow the commandment of love and work together. The people of Nagasaki prostrate themselves before God and pray: Grant that Nagasaki may be the last atomic wilderness in the history of the world.”
“Men and women often judge what they don't really know.”
“Men and women really do want the same things. We just need each other to bring it out. That's really the truth of the matter.”
“Men and women serving in the military deserve better than what they're giving - what we're giving them. They don't know what they're going to be doing tomorrow.”
“Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.”
“Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.”
Source: Of Men and Women
“Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.”
Source: St Mawr and Other Stories
“Men and women...sill live together for centuries without agreeing on anything.”
Source: Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
“Men and women sleep not with each other but with the memories, the regrets, the hopes of unions yet to come. Our adulteries are internal; they deepen our aloneness.”
“Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.”
“Men and women…they are interested in each others bodies first. Other things come later.”
Source: Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
“Men and women —they frighten each other terribly, yet cannot do without each other's horrors.”
“Men and women thought and did noble and mean things that would have been impossible to them before or after. A man cannot drink old Bourbon long and remain in his normal condition. We did not drink Bourbon, but blood.”
Source: Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography
“Men and women walked casually about as they did on the main floor, every now and then stopping one another, exchanging pleasantries or scraps of relevantly irrelevant information. Gossip.”
Source: The Jason Bourne Series 3-Book Bundle: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum
“Men and women want to do a good job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do so”
“Men and women were created for something great, for infinity. Nothing else will ever be enough.”
“Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard”
“Men and women who are genius at what they know, understand and do, content to experience the tragedy of going through life as a light placed under a table if you will...a dimmable, hidden, and unknown legend.
The day that special person makes the wisdom decision, to hire another genius skilled to unveil, and strategically hail that cloaked legend...legacy can lay its foundation as a forever cornerstone.”
“Men and women who are lonely create. Those who are gregarious rarely do... Any poet would rather bed with a girl than write a poem about her. All art is the result of frustration. Art is energy deflected from its normal course in action.”
“Men and women who are used of GOD, if I had only a few words to describe them, they are the passionate-weak, they are the violently-desperate.”
“Men and women who have lived together over long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves.”
Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
“Men and women who have served in harm's way experience higher rates of divorce and suicide. Many battle the debilitating effects and stigma associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.”
“Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.”
“Men and women who live in America...have a responsibility greater than that yet borne by any other people. Theirs the duty, the obligation to preserve not only the Constitution of the land but the Christian principles from which sprang that immortal document.”
“Men and women who possesses drive record more increase than those who are passive”
“Men and women who refuse to acknowledge God's existence do so, in the final analysis, because it is contrary to their manner of living. They do not want to bow to the moral claims of a holy God on their lives.”
“Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives than they can. He can deepen their joys, expand their vision, quicken their minds, strengthen their muscles, lift their spirits, multiply their blessings, increase their opportunities, comfort their souls, and pour out peace.”
“Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives than they can.”
Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
“Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives than they can. He can deepen their joys, expand their vision, quicken their minds, strengthen their muscles, lift their spirits, multiply their blessings, increase their opportunities, comfort their soals, and pour out peace.”
Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
“Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world.”
“Men and women will forever make gods of others rather than see the god in themselves.”
Source: The Secret Magdalene: A Novel
“Men and women will retain their sex in heaven”
“Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.”
Source: Rights for Americans: the speeches of Robert F. Kennedy
“Men and women would be even more unhappy if they really understood one another.”
“Men and women
Yakking beneath
the eternal Void”
“Men and women yearners must realize their unity even while in the
flesh; not by communion of the flesh, but by the Will to Freedom from
the flesh and all the impediments it places in their way to perfect
Unity and Holy Understanding”
Source: The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark