I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. Anais Nin Read Quote
I’ve always been independent. My father was in the army, so we moved every two years. I had to go round and bang on the neighbour’s door each time to find out if they had kids I could play with. James Blunt Read Quote
The main actors on the world stage are the size of continents, be they nation states or voluntary groupings of nation states such as the E.U. Nostalgia can help us ignore these harsh realities for a while, but it will not make them go away. Frans Timmermans Read Quote
Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work – or worry. Gilbert Parker Read Quote
Well, you’ve got certain obstacles that get in your way throughout your career, but you have to be a strong individual. Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Read Quote
It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon. Ernst Mayr Read Quote
A lot of guys try to stay out of the political limelight because you have things like endorsements; you have fans and all these other things that you represent. Malcolm Jenkins Read Quote
