Men Quotes - Page 1074

Every man lives by exchanging.

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.

A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.

Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.

Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.

Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.

What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.

Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything You've got to be your own man, not a puppet on a string

Contentment empties the heart of all superfluous carriage, thus leaving it entirely for Allah.

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to it himself.

Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on, but and absolutely marvellous minor poet, I think, and a great scholar.

[Mujib Rahman] is mad, mad! And they're all mad, the press included, who repeat after him, "Three million dead, three million dead!" The Indians had let out the figure of one million. He came along and doubled it. Then tripled it. It's a characteristic of the man - he'd done the same for the hurricane.

I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the "dahling" thing got started?

Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water - they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.

I'm signed to Atlantic through 300 Entertainment [Lyor Cohen's label]. That is my only contractual relationship.

If you really believe and really make a commitment, anything can happen.

If the body dies, it does no harm to the mind, but if the mind dies, one can no longer act as a man even though the body survives.

Peace with Syria would provide more security than a few settlements on the Golan.

You refuse to forgive people, and yet on the Day of Judgment you will stand bare, begging Allah to forgive you.

Russian men have a saying: "Women are like buses..." That's it.

If you ask me 'What is the one great move you can make to improve the Israeli economy?' of course it will be signing an agreement with the Arab world about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This will change everything.

Now as I look around, it's mighty plain to see, This world is such a great and a funny place to be. Oh, the gamblin' man is rich, an' the workin' man is poor, And I ain't got no home in this world anymore.

If you're born with a gift, to behave like it's an achievement is not right.