Men Quotes - Page 293

Do not put all your eggs in one basket.

Any idiot can get an airplane off the ground, but an aviator earns his keep by bringing it back anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances that man and God can dream up.

I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.

Personally, I think that children should be left alone, they should be given an opportunity to grow up, to become aware of themselves and decide themselves who they are: men or women, if they want to have a traditional or homosexual marriage.

Being a man with a conscience I simply felt that I had to do something - anything! - about the world we live in.

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility... It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.

The gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate.

There is no such thing as experience here. You seem to know, you imagine. Imagination must come to an end...I don't know how to put it. The absence of imagination, the absence of will, the absence of effort, the absence of all movement in any direction, on any level, in any dimension - THAT is the thing. That is a thing that cannot be experienced at all. It is not an experience.

Tony Stark in 'Iron Man' helped wider audiences finally embrace the enormous talent of Robert Downey Jr.

'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is the best movie for a guy like me. A cerebral adventure. A moving story. A bunch of little green men.

Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

A passionate commitment to social justice is no substitute for knowing what the hell you're talking about.

The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.

Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

It is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance from the seat of government, and took little part in the strife of factions, gave vent to their petty local animosities in coarse Fescennine verse.

We can't treat the matter of black economic empowerment as just the redistribution of existing wealth. It really has to focus on new investment, on growth, on development of employment and so on and so on.

Track your small wins to motivate big accomplishments.

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars - to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording - all this is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always supposedly in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yes, God, I want to talk to everybody as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.

Only by practice and non-attachment can we conquer mind.

True development must be in harmony with the needs of people and the rhythms of the natural world.

I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills.

I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing.