Once a month, some women act like men act all the time.
Robert A. Heinlein
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN TANSTAAFL: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
PIERRE DOS UTT Life is a tightrope to keep your balance you have to keep on going. If you fall off it is game over....
GARY F EVANS... Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any...
JANE GOODSELL Where does it say that women can't act like men sometimes? I saw a cute piece of meat and I said to ...
ALLY MCBEAL Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
JOHN BERGER Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines
ERICH FROMM For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.
WALTER JON WILLIAMS Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
Act II
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that rede...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Just as humans have a prior right to existence over dogs by virtue of being more highly evolved and ...
VALERIE SOLANIS As humans have a prior right to existence over dogs by virtue of being more highly evolved and havin...
VALERIE SOLANAS Life is an act and we are all actors in the arena of life. We all do act each day from dawn to dusk....
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I got an early education on how bad men and women can act. Most of those people were sucking the lif...
LISA MARIE PRESLEY Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so.
HELENA RUBINSTEIN The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman.
SYDNEY BIDDLE BARROWS Election night is the easiest time to act like a grownup.
RON FOURNIER The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman.
SYDNEY BIDDLE BARROWS To be a champion you must act like one, act like a champion.
LOU FERRIGNO For an evil act committed in the world does not bear fruit at once, like a cow.
FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER It occurs to her that he is attempting to let her win, an act she considers highly unnecessary since...
LUIS CAMARA SILVA It's a recognition of women who are still breaking boundaries. There's a lot more of a balancing act...
KAREN MURRAY Men may act as cruelly as dragons, but dragons will never act as men do.
STEVEN POORE ...all men are strange. It's a genetic thing. You are all born with it. How else could you explain t...
W SCOTT MITCHELL You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in l...
ANDREA DWORKIN The key to understanding women is realizing that they are a person just like us. Women are not "robo...
BRANDON JAMES The earliest depiction of libertarian eugenics may have appeared in a science fiction novel, Robert ...
GREGORY BENFORD Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal r...
SAMUEL GOMPERS A good act done at the wrong time is as bad as a bad act done at any time.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I do not believe in a fate that falls on all men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that f...
G. K. CHESTERTON I've had a tough time learning how to act like a congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of...
JOSEPH P. KENNEDY I got to act with my childhood film idol, Robert Redford, and that's a gift in itself.
CHIN HAN Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them,—but not for love. -As You Like It. Ac...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
ROBERT J. HANLON There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
PIERRE DOS UTT Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their m...
ANAïS NIN Third act of the eternal play!
In poster-like emblazonries
"Autumn once more begins today"--
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RICHARD LE GALLIENNE Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and frag...
JERRY RUBIN Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fr...
JERRY RUBIN The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Rejecting the fundamental provision of the Civil Rights Act is a rejection of the foundational promi...
JOHN YARMUTH In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than s...
ALANIS MORISSETTE What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?
RITA MAE BROWN You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predat...
ANDREA DWORKIN Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some de...
OLIVER SACKS Women should be obscene and not heard.
PAUL MEREDITH POTTER In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exis...
DIANA WYNNE JONES Our mission... it will be difficult, it will take time, it will be demanding for all men and women.....
EMMANUEL MACRON A woman with a woman's viewpoint is of more value when she forgets she's a woman and begins to act l...
LEONOR KRETZER SULLIVAN Some people act like they're cool, /
And others act like they're hot, /
But both are trying to fool ...
DAVID L. HATTON In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which...
JACQUES ELLUL When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like w...
WATKIN TUDOR JONES Making choices that improve things for all of us on the planet is an act of compassion, a simple act...
DANIEL GOLEMAN Men we drive ourselves crazy. Men always want to marry a virgin, but during the act of sex on the we...
JERRY SEINFIELD Every single Act either weakeneth or improveth our Credit with other Men; and as an habit of being j...
GEORGE SAVILE Death (or its allusion) makes men precious and pathetic. They are moving because of their phantom co...
JORGE LUIS BORGES If we act like prey, they’ll act like predators
ALYXANDRA HARVEY If you act like you've only got fifteen minutes, it will take all day. Act like you've got all day, ...
MONTY ROBERTS I can’t really act the way I want to act, or say what I want to say all the time. And a lot of tim...
HILARY DUFF When I was in my gender class a lot of it was hard for me to listen to these women; I just felt they...
BRANDI PERL It's really a balancing act trying to get more rugged, but not so rugged that women are going to be ...
BILL KWONG Some women feel the need to act like they're never scared, needy or hurt; like they're as hardened a...
CRYSTAL WOODS I'm not able to go in with an act that I use month to month year to year all the time. It's ...
ALAN THICKE I would say give them some time to get their act together.
JAN PRONK You shall comprehend all vagrom men. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point.
SEAN BEAN Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to ackn...
DEE DEE MYERS How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with th...
MARCUS AURELIUS Fred Zinnemann, on From Here To Eternity and The Sundowners really brings out of me, in a completely...
DEBORAH KERR They need to understand they have to do something post secondary. Work is inevitable. They have to p...
DEBORAH KERR We need to make sure that we fix it this time, because what if that had been an act of terrorism? .....
JOHN MCCAIN No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
HENRY KISSINGER Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simpl...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE [The act] has been implemented now for 30 years, ... A lot has changed over that time. We have advan...
BILL HOLBROOK We've had 16 dress rehearsals up until this point. Tonight was show time and act one, so we have to ...
DON BETHEL I learned from Harriet that someone can be stone cold and at the same time act like they care.
CHARLES SOECHTING This is the quiet time. Now is the time to act to push back the tide of HIV in Asia,
DAVID BLOOM The time to act is now.
DAN TOOLE Time is of the essence to protect this beautiful wildflower and this is what the Endangered Species ...
ERIN ROBERTSON For international retailers interested in the Russian and Chinese market , the time to act is now.
FADI FARRA He doesn't act like he's 22, ... I think the one thing about him is every time he goes out there, he...
JASON KENDALL He doesn't act like he's 22. I think the one thing about him is every time he goes out there, he's g...
JASON KENDALL They are doing a selfless act on their own time.
KATHLEEN KELLEY It's time to act, quite frankly.
JEFF MIKULINA God doesn't act like the Church. No, instead, the Church must act like God.
KIM CLEMENT There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond. -The Merchant of Ve...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE [The game of] Trivia, like camp, is a product of the heart, not of the mind. It's a social disease, ...
EDWIN GOODGOLD The tongues of dying men Enforce attention like deep harmony. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of ...
JEFFREY TOOBIN But some people act like they think I live in the jungle someplace.
ROBERTO CLEMENTE There were four major 20th-century science fiction writers: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A...
ROBERT J. SAWYER You act at being a man, and before you know it, you are one.
RICHARD MADDEN So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your televisi...
GERARD WAY Men often act knowingly against their interest.
DAVID HUME They were larger than life all the time. That was no act.
ANGIE DICKINSON Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
SOPHOCLES Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
SYDNEY SMITH When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at th...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Those young players act like they've been in the big leagues for a long time, ... They play like the...
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what yo...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurtin...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Everybody lies about sex.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The correct way to punctuate a sentence that states: "Of course it is none of my business, but -- " ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I came, I saw, she conquered."
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Live and learn, or you don't live long.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodn...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There is no such thing as "Just a cat.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none;...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Find out what you want to do, then do it. Never talk yourself into doing something you don’t want....
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Television leaves no external scars.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Some people insist that ‘mediocre’ is better than ‘best.’ They delight in clipping wings bec...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Dress yourself in heavy fishing waders, put on an overcoat and boxing gloves and a bucket over your ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Library science was the foundation of all sciences.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN You can't believe what a lovely planet we have until you see her from outside.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The Mother Thing makes our world.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Everybody else specializes. Daddy knows everything, and he puts the pieces together.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN More depended on the student than on the school.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Mother had the social restraint of an ambassador.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I needed a space suit the way a pig needs a pipe organ.
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