Men Quotes - Page 335

I'll be honest with you. I'm a little bit of a loner. It's been a big part of my maturing process to learn to allow people to support me. I tend to be very self-reliant and private. And I have this history of wanting to work things out on my own and protect people from what's going on with me.

If we manage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

Empowerment is all about letting go so that others can get going.

Sexual harassment is complex, subtle, and highly subjective.

While woman sheds the Blood of Life each moon at menstruation, man can only shed the blood of death through warfare and killing.

You're much better than fireworks. They're all over in a moment, and you're going to stay for a fortnight. Besides, fireworks are noisy, and they make too much smoke.

For myself, I am interested in science and in philosophy only because I want to learn something about the riddle of the world in which we live, and the riddle of man's knowledge of that world. And I believe that only a revival of interest in these riddles can save the sciences and philosophy from an obscurantist faith in the expert's special skill and in his personal knowledge and authority.

Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle.

Just trying to do something - just being there, showing up - is how we get braver. Self-esteem is about doing.

Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.

I do believe in the right to carry, and I believe in the right to defend myself and my family -- whether it's from an intruder, or whether it's from a government, should they decide that my rights are no longer important.

Great power often corrupts virtue; it invariably renders vice more malignant. . . . In proportion as the powers of government increase, both its own character and that of the people becomes worse.

There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest numbers of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest, who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.

I probably have more female friends than any man I've ever met. What I like about them is that almost always they're generally mentally tougher, and they're better listeners, and they're more capable of surviving things. And most of the women that I like have a haunted quality - they're sort of like women who live in a haunted house all by themselves.

But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the people, as long as the government and its officials permit bribery in any form.

Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.

The more successful you are, the more you need to learn and grow. Your commitment to learning has to be continuous and unrelenting.

Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.

Whatever I'd say would be an understatement. I can only say my life was made much better by knowing him. He was one of the greatest people I've ever known, as a man, a friend, and a musician.

Society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.

You have the right not to be killed, unless it was done by a policeman or an aristocrat.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.

I judge how much a man cares for a woman by the space he allots her under a jointly shared umbrella.

A man's word and his intestinal fortitude are two of the most honorable virtues known to mankind.