— Walter Bagehot, buch The English Constitution
No. V, The House of Commons, p. 155
Bagehot was commenting on the method of selecting Presidential candidates in the United States.
The English Constitution (1867)
„… sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man - not that it usually is known to men; women do it much more often.“
— Diana Gabaldon, buch Dragonfly in Amber
Quelle: Dragonfly in Amber
Letzte Aktualisierung 3. Juni 2021. Geschichte
Diana Gabaldon7
US-amerikanische Autorin der Gegenwart 1952Ähnliche Zitate
— Frederick Winslow Taylor American mechanical engineer and tennis player 1856 - 1915
Quelle: Shop Management, 1903, p. 1346.
— Sherry Argov American writer 1977
Quelle: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
„A man is known by the company he keeps. A company is known by the men it keeps.“
— Tom Watson American businessman 1874 - 1956
Quelle: Garg, Anu, A Word A Day, Wordsmith, 2016.02.17
„Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald American novelist and screenwriter 1896 - 1940
— Hillary Clinton American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady 1947
Conference on domestic violence https://web.archive.org/web/20010726225357/http://clinton3.nara.gov/WH/EOP/First_Lady/html/generalspeeches/1998/19981117.html in San Salvador, El Salvador (17 November 1998).
White House years (1993–2000)
— José Saramago, buch The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
Então Jesus voltou lentamente o rosto para ela e disse. Não conheço mulher. Maria segurou-lhe as mãos, Assim temos de começar todos, homens que não conheciam mulher, mulheres que não conheciam homem, um dia o que sabia ensinou, o que não sabia aprendeu.
Quelle: The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (1991), p. 235
„Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.“
— Carl Sagan American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator 1934 - 1996
This phrase was created by reporter Sharon Begley in the end of a 1977 Newsweek article with an extended profile of Carl Sagan. It was a final conclusion about Sagan's work and the topic of hypotethical extra-terrestrial life forms. "Quote Investigator" http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/18/incredible/
Misattributed
— O. Henry, buch Whirligigs
"Blind Man's Holiday"
Whirligigs (1910)
Kontext: Man is too thoroughly an egoist not to be also an egotist; if he love, the object shall know it. During a lifetime he may conceal it through stress of expediency and honour, but it shall bubble from his dying lips, though it disrupt a neighbourhood. It is known, however, that most men do not wait so long to disclose their passion. In the case of Lorison, his particular ethics positively forbade him to declare his sentiments, but he must needs dally with the subject, and woo by innuendo at least.
— Jeet Thayil Indian writer 1959
Quelle: An extract from Jeet Thayil's Booker-shortlisted Narcopolis http://www.welovethisbook.com/features/extract-narcopolis, 10 September 2012 The Bookseller Media
— Richard Maurice Bucke prominent Canadian psychiatrist in the late 19th century 1837 - 1902
Dedication
Man's Moral Nature (1879)
— Richard Whately English rhetorician, logician, economist, and theologian 1787 - 1863
As quoted in Anecdote Lives of the Later Wits and Humourists (1874) by John Timbs, Vol. 2, p. 44
— Steve Stewart-Williams 1971
Quelle: The Ape that Thought It Was a Peacock: Does Evolutionary Psychology Exaggerate Human Sex Differences? (2013), p. 157
— Iris Murdoch, buch The Red and the Green
Quelle: The Red and the Green
„Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?“
— Virginia Woolf English writer 1882 - 1941
— Samuel Richardson, buch The History of Sir Charles Grandison
Vol. 1, letter 37.
Sir Charles Grandison (1753–1754)
„The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.“
— Henry Adams journalist, historian, academic, novelist 1838 - 1918
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
