Men Quotes - Page 340

There are no great men, only ordinary men, who have met extraordinary challenges.

I have always admired the ability to bite off more than one can chew and then chew it.

No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.

It was this same Jesus, the Christ who, among many other remarkable things, said and repeated something which, proceeding from any other being would have condemned him at once as either a bloated egotist or a dangerously unbalanced person...when He said He himself would rise again from the dead, the third day after He was crucified, He said something that only a fool would dare say, if he expected longer the devotion of any disciples-unless He was sure He was going to rise. No founder of any world religion known to men ever dared say a thing like that!

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

Where oil is first found is in the minds of men

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.

For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.

If you wish, I shall grow irreproachably tender: not a man, but a cloud in trousers!

Women are always beautiful.

As a professor in two fields, neurology and psychiatry, I am fully aware of the extent to which man is subject to biological, psychological and sociological conditions. But in addition to being a professor in two fields I am a survivor of four camps - concentration camps, that is - and as such I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.

Early on, I learnt from the Russian intelligentsia that the only meaning of life lies in conscious participation in the making of history. The more I think of that, the more deeply true it seems to be. It follows that one must range oneself actively against everything that diminishes man, and involve oneself in all struggles which tend to liberate and enlarge him. This categorical imperative is by no way lessened by the fact that such an involvement is inevitably soiled by error: it is a worse error merely to live for oneself, caught within traditions which are soiled by inhumanity.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

I never thought I'd be successful. It seems in my own mind that in everything I've undertaken I've never quite made the mark. But I've always been able to put disappointments aside. Success isn't about the end result; it's about what you learn along the way.

If a man can possess a woman sexually -really possess- he won't need to control her ideas, her opinions, her clothes, her friends, even her other lovers.

Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself.

The first step is that the Cambodian government has expressed sincerity to apologize for what happened.

The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America.

Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.

It's easy to grin when your ship comes in and you've got the stock market beat. But the man worthwhile is the man who can smile when his shorts are too tight in the seat.

Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.

My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine.

I just wanted to say things that women wanted to say, but were afraid to.