Men Quotes - Page 1160

Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.

Chinese are already more on board than we are. China is the only country that actually discussed in formal government documents how important it is to control the size of your populations if you’re going to limit emissions.

Paul Harvey was the most listened to man in the history of radio. ... There is no one who will ever come close to him.

Muffled lives explode in understatements.

Freud pointed out, in his Problem of Lay Analysis, that it is extremely unlikely that a young man who would throw the best years of his life into the cloistered drudgery of getting an M.D. degree, could possibly make a good psychoanalyst; so he preferred to look for young analysts among the writers, the lawyers, the mothers of families, those who had chosen human contact. But in their economic wisdom, the Psychoanalytic Institute of Vienna (and New York) overruled him.

The worst criminals of our time are the US and UK governments. Both are devoid of all integrity, all honor, all mercy, all humanity. Many members of both governments would have made perfect functionaries in Stalinist Russia or Nazi Germany.

He was not bound. No one led him by the arm. He got out of the carriage as if he were a free man.

And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.

Liberty ought to be the direct end of your government.

There was a time when only men could provide or work, and still a lot of countries are like that. But there's a price to be paid for that when you're expected to be the full-time caretaker and you're expected to be the full-time breadwinner.

Our two-party system is a fraud, a sham, a delusion. On foreign policy, trade, immigration, Big Government, we have one-party government, one party press; and conservatives are being played for suckers.

Passing the veil does not alter a man; it certainly takes him from the eyes of flesh, but the capacity, the intelligence, the thinking powers, are all alive and quick; and if they hear the Gospel they will be glad, and the promises are made to them, and they will rejoice in them.

And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.

Beauty is no accomplishment on its own. It's what you do with it.

When government does, occasionally, work, it works in an elitist fashion. That is, government is most easily manipulated by people who have money and power already. This is why government benefits usually go to people who don't need benefits from government. Government may make some environmental improvements, but these will be improvements for rich bird-watchers. And no one in government will remember that when poor people go bird-watching they do it at Kentucky Fried Chicken.

The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.

The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.

Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.

There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.

The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.

Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.

Modern man receives a large part of his knowledge and general education by way of pictorial impressions, illustrations, photographs, films. Daily newspapers bring more pictures from year to year. In addition, the advertising business operates with optical signals as well as representations. Exhibitions and museums are indeed offspring of this visual hustle.

If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time or great personal growth ahead.

I fly close to my man, aim well and then of course he falls down.