Quotes of: Wise-men Keyword

Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that's saying a good deal.

Under the Greenwood Tree

What these men represented was not 'The West' but what was for this century a relatively new kind of monied class in America, a group devoid of social responsibilities because their ties to any one place had been so attenuated.

Vintage Didion

A right doesn't include the material implementation of that right by other men; it includes only the freedom to earn that implementation by one's own effort.

The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

Some men just can’t stomach the necessary steps it takes to make a good girl great.

we were one once: Book 1

I wish I could line up naked the men I've slept with and just gloat for a hot minute. Beautiful creatures.

Write like no one is reading 2

In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind--but he must get there first.

The Winter of Our Discontent

Forgive me that I felt forsaken, That grief and angst was all I knew. Forgive me that I kept mistaking Too many other men for you.

White Flock

For I chase but one hind, he says, one strange deer timid and wild, and she leads me off the paths that other men have trod, and by myself into the depths of the wood.

Wolf Hall

There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.

Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them

Where I Lived, and What I Lived For

Physical aggression by a man toward his partner is abuse, even if it happens only once.

Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

Addiction does not cause partner abuse, and recovery from addiction does not “cure” partner abuse.

Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

Abuse and respect are diametric opposites: You do not respect someone whom you abuse, and you do not abuse someone whom you respect.

Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

As far as she could see, children mostly argued, shouted, ran around very fast, laughed loudly, picked their noses, got dirty and sulked.

The Wee Free Men

When you learn to love yourself, you will no longer tolerate mistreatment of any kind. Not from him. Not from her. And not from YOU.

Words to Ponder About Life, Love and Men

He was a passionate adherent of the new ideas and of Speransky, and the busiest purveyor of news in Petersburg, one of those men who choose their opinions like their clothes—according to the fashion—but for that very reason seem the most vehement...

War and Peace

Only by assuming an infinitesimally small unit for observation - a differential of history (that is, the common tendencies of men) - and arriving at the art of integration (finding the sum of the infinitesimals) can we hope to discover the laws of hi...

War and Peace

What you did tonight was clever,” Wit said. “You turned an attack into a promise. The wisest of men know that to render an insult powerless, you often need only to embrace it.

Words of Radiance

Because any guilt the size of a speck of dust, or shame, can crush even the best of men, in mountains of weight

White Wedding Lies, and Discontent: An American Love Story

If I grew up in the simple-minded belief that women were as strong and intelligent as men, it was because I came from a society that had once believed it.

Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South

It's a very old word, it means 'to breathe into.' That's how it works: An angel breathes into men and shows us what to play, what to draw. How to find the truth of who we are and why we are here.

The Watchers