Men Quotes - Page 1109

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

This dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming to pass all over the earth.

No one so poignantly realizes the failures in the social structure as the man at the bottom, who has been most directly in contact with those failures and has suffered most.

The snow began to fall again, drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falling with disappointment to the ground.

I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint—old man propaganda.

To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life. You do it because there's an element of alienation in your life.

The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.

A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely.

[In a republic,] it is not the people themselves who make the decisions, but the people they themselves choose to stand in their places.

Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.

An alliance or coalition between Government and religion cannot be too carefully guarded against......Every new and successful example therefore of a PERFECT SEPARATION between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance........religion and government will exist in greater purity, without (rather) than with the aid of government.

Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.

All men of action are dreamers.

Respect a man, he will do the more.

The living arrangements American now think of as normal are bankrupting us economically, socially, ecologically and spiritually.

A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform... therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.

The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.

Conscience in the soul is the root of all true courage. If a man would be brave, let him learn to obey his conscience.

Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. You're in with the former, but my God I don't envy the blood on your conscience.

The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous, and transcends heartbreak and disappointment.

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.