Woman Quotes - Page 10

Our kingdom is our life, and our life is our kingdom. We are all meant to rule from a glorious place. When God is on the throne, then so are we. When God is in exile, our lands are at war and our kingdoms are in chaos.

It is not Atlas who carries the world on his shoulders, but woman; and sometimes she plays with it as with a ball.

In Sanskrit, there exists no word for ‘The Individual’ (L’Individu). En Grèce antique, il n’y avait aucun mot pour dire ‘Devoir’ (Duty). In French, the word for ‘Wife’ is the same as the word for ‘Woman.’ En anglais, nous n’avons aucun mot semblable à l’exquise ‘Jouissance!

I always knew the woman i wanted to be- I knew I wanted to be a woman who was independant

Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old warhorse turned out on the barren heath; thou hast had thy paces in thy time, but now a broken amble is the best of them.

For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a woman is not everthing, but everything depends on her.

We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.

...a woman not yet seen, but whose perfume accumulates on the horizon like a storm cloud.

I told Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson, then age 105, that she was the only person over 80 who I'd ever met who never referred to her physical infirmities or health problems. To which she replied, "I have my difficulties; I do not rejoice in them.

Every woman should have a purse of her own.

A man’s desire is for the woman, but the woman’s desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

The most beautiful is to see the joy in your eyes.

I ain’t the only old woman looking. I’m just the only one honest enough to admit it. The others just hire the boy to cut their grass so they can sit at the window and drool.

I never fell in love with another woman. I cannot have a relationship with a woman if I'm not in love...I'm a very particular person, I'm not very much interested in short adventures with women or girls. I have to fall in love with someone in order to have a realtionship with her.

Her vice takes hold of her again, but she still refrains until some moment when, gnawed by some hideous caprice, she comes aground like a mournful wreck ruined by lust, in the midst of her own banal, perfidious pollution.

A clever girl may pass through the phase of foolish miss on the way to sensible woman.

To say she is only a woman is to say a violin is a piece of wood with strings, and Dante is mere ink printed on paper.

She might have acted like she didn't know.But she knew,a woman always knows

I see myself..in those pages as she goes back and forth, enjoying simply enjoying the beauties of the moments then chastising herself for having ‘no edge’ being simple and worse, harmless.

But that woman is an encyclopedia!
Of all vices, ancient and modern, and terribly interesting to leaf through!