You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress. ~Shimon Peres
#quotes #shimon-peres

In Mallrats, you pretty much don't see him sell any weed, really. I don't consider him a big dealer. ~Jason Mewes
#quotes #jason-mewes #drugs #movies

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success; such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. ~Nikola Tesla
#quotes #nikola-tesla #motivation #success

I think when it comes to botox and surgery, actresses should do it or not do it, but be honest about their choices. ~Debra Winger
#quotes #debra-winger #honesty

The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you. ~Philip Roth
#quotes #philip-roth #pleasure

When you're young and good-looking, you've got to behave. But when you're old, you can get away with murder. ~Julie Newmar
#quotes #julie-newmar #manners

A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian Proverb
#proverbs #haitian-proverbs #mother

People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun. ~Peter O'Toole
#quotes #peter-o-toole #50s #60s

To inquire into the origin of life is like seeking the origin of electrical machinery or the origin of music. Every increase in complexity of arrangement, of form, of substance, leads to new and often incalculable properties. ~Gilbert Newton Lewis
#quotes #gilbert-newton-lewis #life #origin

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ~Theodore Roosevelt
#quotes #theodore-roosevelt #success #failure #trying

We are dealing in a day and time when the courts are defining sin different than the church. ~Johnny Hunt
#quotes #johnny-hunt #christianity

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature. ~Paul Cezanne
#quotes #paul-cezanne #nature

Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members. ~St. Vincent
#quotes #st-vincent #music #bands

He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
#proverbs #arabic-proverbs

Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools. ~Charles Churchill
#quotes #charles-churchill #stupidity

The main courtyard was filled with warriors, mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before. Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in "The Little Mermaid. ~Rick Riordan
#quotes #rick-riordan #the-little-mermaid

He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher. ~Benjamin Whichcote
#quotes #benjamin-whichcote #education #teaching

All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
#proverbs #yiddish-proverbs #sorrow

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. ~Nnamdi Azikiwe
#quotes #nnamdi-azikiwe #creativity #scholars

I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere. ~Ryan White
#quotes #ryan-white

Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
#quotes #matthew-arnold