These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
“Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance”
There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
“I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
“I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.”
No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
I knew that the moment the great governing spirit strikes the blow to divide all humanity into just two opposing factions, I would be on the side of the common people.
This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled. But there are moments when we can... reconcile and embrace the whole mess, and that's what I mean by 'Hallelujah.'
Straight lines go too quickly to appreciate the pleasures of the journey. They rush straight to their target and then die in the very moment of their triumph without having thought, loved, suffered or enjoyed themselves
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.
Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
No mortal man is wise at all moments.
Only mankind Can do the impossible: He can distinguish, He chooses and judges, He can give permanence To the moment.
Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.
The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.
Is an excellent omen, for one to defend his homeland.
Anger is a momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.(Subdue your passion or it will subdue you).
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.”
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.
Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.
The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.
“I've been very near death. And you can't imagine the wild elation of those moments- it's the sudden glimpse of the absurdity of life that brings it- when one meets death face to face."
It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.
I sing because the moment exists
Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.
If there is one thing that the women and men of the late 20th century who have an awareness and enjoyment of history can be sure of, it is that Islam was not sent from Heaven to foster egotism and mediocrity.
You find in the Koran hundreds of verses to support women's rights, and perhaps four or five that do not.
I only live for the moments I am in the podium and in order to live those moments, I spend my life preparing myself with discipline, doubts and humility.
At some given moment it happens that the child becomes deeply interested in a piece of work; we see it in the expression on his face, his intense concentration, the devotion to the exercise.
I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.
Know the right moment.
It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative - whichever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.
“The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.”
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.
Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.
I do what I can to give everyone a moment of happiness. This is at the heart of my music.
When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment.
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.
Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everythin happens for a reason.
All the world ‘s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.
I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.
My childhood was a peroid of waiting to the moment when i could send everyone in it to hell.
Women are war booty.
Women are divided into beautiful and ugly.
We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.
Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.
What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine
to live means to lack something at every moment.
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why
Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment.
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
“He had reached that moment in life, different for each one of us, when a man abandonds himself to his demon or to his genius, following a mysterious law which bids him either to destroy or outdo himself.
In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.
In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.