Strange & Unusual Sayings

565 sayings found

God's time is always the right time.

— Harriet Tubman Unknown
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

— Frederick Douglass Unknown
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I think the best way to prove that the world can be run without men is to run it without men.

— Susan B. Anthony Late 19th Century
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I had been pushed around all my life and felt at this moment that I couldn’t take it anymore.

— Rosa Parks Post-1955
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

— Florence Nightingale 1859
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The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

— Albert Schweitzer Unknown
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I said, 'I think God is in the air.' My teacher said, 'Yes, and in the water, and in the earth, and in you.'

— Helen Keller 1903
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I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

— Anne Frank 1944
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We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.

— Emmeline Pankhurst 1908
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A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.

— Gloria Steinem 1970 (approx)
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I do think that the court has become more politicized. It was not always thus. I mean, the justices were not appointed for partisan reasons.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg 2015
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

— Eleanor Roosevelt 1937
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I was like a lamb to the slaughter, and I didn't know it.

— Princess Diana 1995
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We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!

— Greta Thunberg 2019
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I don’t know if I believe in dragons, but I do believe in the people who believe in dragons.

— Ursula K. Le Guin 1987
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Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

— Margaret Atwood 1982
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

— Salman Rushdie 2005
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I tell my story not because it is unique, but because it is the story of many girls.

— Malala Yousafzai 2013
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I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for the body in the coach.

— Alfred Hitchcock 1963
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I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that.

— C.S. Lewis 1952
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