Men Quotes - Page 1023

Equality for women is progress for all.

One of the major causes of poverty is a lack of family planning. Governments and nonprofit organizations need to encourage poor people to use birth control so that they don't have unexpected babies, which will only make poorer families poorer.

For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of crisscrossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible; his life is thus centered not in reality itself but in his ideas of it. By focusing the mind wholly on each objects and every action, zazen strips it of extraneous thoughts and allows us to enter into a full rapport with life.

The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.

I love all men and women. I am a lover of humanity, not a hater. … I have been immoral, drunk, high. I ran with the wicked people for 28 years and I have run with the Jesus people since and the contrast is astounding.

You're only a success for the moment that you complete a successful act.

Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.

I can't actually read interviews with thesps now because they're almost always fantastically predictable, the men especially. Actors are forever stressing their ordinariness, their beer and football-loving commitments.

We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization

Christ is the Word of God in person. The Bible is the Word of God in writing. Both are the Word of God in the words of men. Both have a human nature and a divine nature.

The Eucharist is everything, because from the Eucharist, everything is

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.

Leaders who fail to appreciate this fundamental precept of accountability must also fail to muster the profound commitment true leadership demands.

The most difficult thing in the world is to start a career known only for your looks, and then to try to become a serious actress. No one will take you seriously once you are known as the pretty woman.

Age holds absolutely no fear for me. There is so much enjoyment ahead.

I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental.

Dreams are rough copies of the waking soul Yet uncorrected of the higher will, So that men sometimes in their dreams confess An unsuspected, or forgotten, self; -Since Dreaming, Madness, Passion, are akin In missing each that salutory rein Of reason, and the grinding will of man.

What the common man cannot understand he hates.

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.

The way we're going to get to understanding is for each man to open his heart and open his mind and look in himself as he looks at his neighbor.

It is not through judgment that the good in people can be reached, but through love and faith.

I don't want to play only Latin women. I want to have roles in English.

I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other.

The biggest mistake of the man is that he thinks he doesn't deserve the good and the bad things from his life.

Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.