It is very difficult for girls. They're told to look one way, but to act another way.
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts abolutely.
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
When you took your seat I felt as if a woman had come into my bathroom and I had only the sponge to defend myself.
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the...
We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.
We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.