Eligible Men Quotes

#1. I don't need to be dead to see something like that. Besides, I know you pretty well by now. You better slow down before you run out of eligible men. This is a small town.

J.J. Cook

#2. All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.

Mignon McLaughlin

#3. Maybe Shay was right; all eligible men were either dead or traumatized.

Hati Bell

#4. The hunt for spouses is an activity on a par with fox-hunting or hawking, though the weapons and dramatis personae differ. Just as grizzled old men know the habits of hares and quail, so do elegant society gossips know every titbit about the year's eligible men and women.

Marie Brennan

#5. People were endlessly trying to set me up with 'eligible' men, and I enjoyed going on a galaxy of dates.

Marie Helvin

#6. No boyfriend! Why not?
Eligible men are scarce - most of them are buried in France.
What about them Americans?
Oh, no. I can't.

David Dennington

#7. Danger was a part of questing. Perhaps some quests were dull and safe affairs. Go to the store. Pick up some eggs. Return henceforth with said eggs and thou shalt be rewarded with the sacred omelet of justice.
Nobody wrote legends about that type of quest.

A. Lee Martinez

#8. Your freedom to be you includes my freedom to be free from you.

Andrew Wilkow

#9. People are usually pretty hungry after a funeral. I guess it's because we all realize that time is running out and we better eat all we can. Please don't mention that to my mother.

Peter Hedges

#10. It is a common failing of men. They see someone they consider beautiful and desirable and eligible, and they imagine that they love her. In fact, though, they love themselves reflected in her eyes.

Mary Balogh

#11. Like several hundred thousand fellow Karelians, we became refugees in our own country as great power politics caused the borders of Finland to be redrawn and left my home town as part of the Soviet Union.

Martti Ahtisaari

#12. There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

Miguel De Unamuno

#13. I remember everything about that day, like the images have been burned into my brain by a branding iron. But I wish they would blow away in the wind.

Jessica Sorensen

#14. Well, of course, all of the statistics say there are fewer eligible black men in my circle. But I've never thought of it that way. I believe that if the right person came into my life that would have been terrific.

Condoleezza Rice

#15. Again, it is for the sake of the soul that goods external and goods of the body are eligible at all, and all wise men ought to choose them for the sake of the soul, and not the soul for the sake of them.

Aristotle.

#16. Agrees, then we cut a quick deal and get it over with. With some luck,

John Grisham

#17. Worship is an attitude expressed

Judson Cornwall

#18. Penelope! Marriage proposals from wealthy, eligible young men do not blossom on trees! Particularly not in January, I wouldn't think.

Sarah MacLean

#19. Mephistopheles, the machine man, can provide us with all the means, and is thus likely to determine the aims of life as well. But of course the characteristic of Faust, which makes him eligible to be saved, is that he seeks aims that are not those of the machine.

Joseph Campbell

#20. I cook this food with love and affection, for those I serve, I ask protection.

Deborah Blake

#21. You're a guy. It's typical for your sex to want to conquer every eligible girl you see.

Kristin R. Campbell

#22. The first record I ever listened to was Elvis Presley, and I remember thinking, 'Man this guy is cool!' The swagger he had really helped my confidence, because he really made me think that a white boy could make music like this.

Jesse McCartney

#23. I'm a 'bleeding-heart liberal,' one of those card-carrying Democrats that Rush Limbaugh thinks is a communist. And I'm proud of it.

James Garner

#24. Am I really admitting that my sister is determined to marry a man she has only seen once and doesn't much like the look of? It is half real and half pretense - and I have an idea that it is a game most girls play when they meet an eligible young men. They just ... wonder.

Dodie Smith

#25. I come to the point of using steel, and simply cannot. It's like the marriage proposal of a perfectly eligible man who just isn't loveable. It is wood I love.

Anne Truitt