Thomas Jefferson Quote

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Abraham Lincoln

My shows aren't about trying to save some place, because I don't feel that's the right venue for it. That's my politics right there: Don't bring politics to my shows.

Kid Rock

• Politics

I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.

Ralph Fiennes

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

Thomas Jefferson

Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again.

Ernst Mach

There's place and means for every man alive.

William Shakespeare

• Man

It is right to give every man his due.

Plato

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Man

Perhaps they were right in putting love into books... Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

William Faulkner

A wise man does not try to hurry history.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

• Man
• Wisdom

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

Thomas Jefferson

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Abraham Lincoln

• Faith

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

Abraham Lincoln

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

William Faulkner

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

Victor Hugo

• Spirit

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.

Marlene Dietrich

• Woman
• Change

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

Jane Fonda

• Man
• Woman

I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.

Salma Hayek

I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong.

Greta Garbo