Men Quotes - Page 304

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.

As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.

It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.

Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.

A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent.

Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.

Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not shutting them down and laying off thousands of people.

Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.

God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Regardless of who has betrayed you and what promises they didn’t keep- God is firm in His commitment to you.

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.

A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening.

The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost.

Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love -- which is to transform us.' Many people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high. They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feeling.

There are those who argue that everything breaks even in this old dump of a world of ours. I suppose these ginks who argue that way hold that because the rich man gets ice in the summer and the poor man gets it in the winter things are breaking even for both. Maybe so, but I'll swear I can't see it that way.

The one and only method of teaching men the true religion was established by Divine Providence for the whole world, and for all times: that is, by persuading the understanding through reasons, and by gently attracting or exhorting the will.

Even the most powerful woman needs a place to unwind.

I'm an optimist - I feel like an amazing part of life is that at any moment.

I have sinned terribly, and I do not know what punishment awaits me.

Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.