"I have often thought how strange it is that men can at once and the same moment cheerfully consign our sex to lives either of narrowest toil or senseless luxury and vanity, and then sneer at the smallness of our aims, the pettiness of our thoughts, the puerility of our conversation!"

--

Source : Frances Power Cobbe (1882). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”

Frances Power Cobbe

#Sex Quotes #Men Quotes #Vanity Quotes

“The first matter that the slave will be brought to account for on the Day of Judgment is the prayer. If it is sound, then the rest of his deeds will be sound. And if it is bad, then the rest of his deeds will be bad.”
“The material memories are not usually part of what is said about a picture, and that is a fault in interpretation because every painting captures a certain resistance of paint, a prodding gesture of the brush, a speed and insistence in the face of mindless matter...”

Source : James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.2, Routledge
“In Canada, Defending Girls from Islamic Honor Killings Is 'Racist'”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 7, 2014
“Doom hits the same frequencies that polytonic Buddhist chanting does, which is very hypnotic and makes time relative when listening.”
“Now, it's high time for all those that have an influence on the parties with the conflict to understand that it is in the interest of everybody to put an end to this conflict. But this kind of persuasion, this kind of intense pressure, I believe it's my duty to do, even if I recognize that the contradictions and the different perceptions of interest that exist are making it very difficult.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“If knowledge is not put into practice, it does not benefit one.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri from Jul 30, 2013
“We're all born with infinite potential and creativity. We all have it in us. Each and every one of us. That's the only truth”
“I guess my mantra is you have to work really hard if you want something. You have to be committed to hard work and persistence even when it gets tough.”

You may also like:

Anna Kingsford
Author
Henry David Thoreau
Author
Henry Stephens Salt
Writer
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil rights activist
Millicent Fawcett
Writer
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist
Sally Helgesen
Author
Theodore Parker
Walter Hadwen