Men Quotations | Page 10

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.

There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a pietism that for all its sincerity is nothing if not vague and sentimental; and he is the most acute and dispassionate of observers, the most profound and earnest student of character and emotion.

It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.

Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.

Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!

Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.

Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

What is nobler than a man wresting and wringing his bread from the stubborn soil by the sweat of his brow and the break of his back for his wife and children!

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences.

Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

Well, I got pretty good and went on the road with a group. We starved. At that time I didn't realize that you'd work one gig in Kansas City, the next in Florida and the next gig will be in Louisville. You know, a thousand miles a night. That was really rough, man.

Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.

There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.

I know it sounds corny, man, but I like to bring folks joy, and I like to have a good time. I know folks like to be with somebody who's having a good time. You sure as hell don't want to be with somebody who's having a bad day.

Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers.

My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.

The first white men of your people who came to our country were named Lewis and Clark. They brought many things that our people had never seen. They talked straight. These men were very kind.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence.

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

What older men and younger women have in common is they are both suffering from different insecurities. She is looking for someone to make her feel safe, and he is looking for someone who doesn't answer back and is a trophy.

The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor.

It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.

A feeling that was possibly generated by experiences in my previous work on cosmic rays; more likely it was inborn and was the reason why, as a young man, I went into the field of cosmic rays.

One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.

You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.

While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.

Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?

I want every man on the force to try his best, his level best, to try to avoid arresting anyone. I know that this going to take great will power but try.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.

Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.

The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases

I'm not a song and dance man, so you're not going to see me on 'Glee' anytime soon. If you want that show to continue, keep me far away from it.

Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.

The process is intense and the producers, who are intelligent men, are bringing in new people for a fresh look at a complicated project that has been in the making for 10 years

God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.

A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.

Any coalition has its troubles, as every married man knows.

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.

I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical.

At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.

I grew up on comic books. 'X-Men' was my favorite team; Wolverine was my guy. At 8 years old, I dressed up as Wolverine with Adamantium claws that I made out of aluminum!

Every woman is sexy in her own way. It is up to men to step up and make women feel like they are No. 1 on that list. There is no such thing as perfection.

How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their goals? What about universal preschool and after-school programs? What about changing the corporate mind-set about the time commitment it takes to move up the ladder? What about having more husbands step up and take the major load?

I cannot doubt that women will line up, like the men elected, with the groups whose political thinking and convictions are in accord with their own political convictions.

There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.

Vests are flair for men. It's one of the few ways men can accent themselves in a formal yet fun fashion.

In the beginning of the war, Southern women wanted their men to leave - in droves, and as quickly as possible. They were the Confederate Army's most persuasive and effective recruitment officers, shaming anyone who shirked his duty to fight.

As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtze. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did.

The holiday season can be an especially trying time for our service men, women, and families. Military service and deployment create empty seats at holiday tables, religious services, and celebrations.

Ambition devours gold and drinks blood and climbs so high by other men's heads, that at the length in the fall, it breaks its own neck; therefore, it is better to live in humble content than in high care and trouble.

All men are chums who will never leave each other in the lurch. A chum doesn't forgive, he just forgets - women forgive everything but never forget. Being forgiven is very unpleasant.

That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can't keep goal with hair like that.

Nothing dissects a man in public quite like golf.

There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man.

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

I was very interested in the relationship between the man who speaks and the woman who listens. I was drawn to the idea that the relationship between a man and a woman can be something like a war itself, very cruel and violent.

A Christian is the highest style of man.

Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

It's weird, man. I've had a weird life, and I don't want to end up on the dole. I'm fed up with the plumbing. And I think it would be good to be a little pop star again.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

That's something - you laugh about Eminem... It's funny, man, because I didn't like him when he first came out, ya know. It seemed like a big joke. But I think the guy's for real, and I like his lyrics!

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

There are people out there dying every day, so when you wake up, you just have to thank the Man Upstairs for another day on this planet. There's not much else we can ask for.

I make bad choices. I've got such dodgy tastes in men.

Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.

Men secretly respect a woman who is strong, has confidence and has dreams of her own. There's nothing more attractive to a man than a woman who has dignity and pride in who she is.

A woman can beat any man; it's difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat a man. That's why I like chess.

From the early 1960s to the mid-1980s - the era of military dictatorship when South Korea was rebuilding itself from a postwar economic basket case to a humming, modern nation - military schools were the track of choice for ambitious young men.