#men

Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#approval #beauty #carrying #exposed #identity

I congratulate you, my brave countrymen and fellow soldiers, on the spirit and success with which you have executed this important part of our enterprise. ↗

— James Wolfe

#congratulate #countrymen #enterprise #executed #fellow

The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country. ↗

— James Wolfe

#blood #bought #cheerfully #conquer #conquest

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#degraded #despise #enjoy #freedom #last

Neither James Madison, for whom this lecture is named, nor any of the other Framers of the Constitution, were oblivious, careless, or otherwise unaware of the words they chose for the document and its Bill of Rights. ↗

— Diane Wood

#bill #bill of rights #careless #chose #constitution

Our constituents did not send us to Washington to shut down the government. They sent us here to make it more accountable. ↗

— Steve Womack

#constituents #did #down #government #here

There is no more reason to think that they expected the world to remain static than there is to think that any of us holds a crystal ball. The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses. ↗

— Diane Wood

#adapt #any #ball #build #could

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self. ↗

— Elijah Wood

#fellow #fellow men #former #lies #men

To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men. ↗

— Richard Wilbur

#common #congress #fundamental #himself #men

Well, I think there's not much of a chance for me finding somebody of my age. Gentlemen of my age are dropping down 30 years to find girlfriends. ↗

— Victoria Wood

#chance #down #dropping #find #finding