Men Quotes - Page 359

To the one who knows how to look and feel, every moment of this free wandering life is an enchantment.

As to Taxes, they are evidently inseparable from Government. It is impossible without them to pay the debts of the nation, to protect it from foreign danger, or to secure individuals from lawless violence and rapine.

The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.

That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don't notice that the time passes.

The destination of life is this eternal moment.

Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.

When God wants to do an impossible task, he takes an impossible man, and he crushes him.

I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of Freemasonry, of its origin, of its history, of its object, nor any explanation of its mysteries and symbols, which does not leave the mind in total uncertainty on all these points. Every man is entitled therefore, to give any explanation of the symbols and a system of the doctrine that he can render palatable.

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.

[The U.S. government] was tired of treaties. They were tired of sacred hills. They were tired of ghost dances. And they were tired of all the inconveniences of the Sioux. So they brought out their cannons. 'You want to be an Indian now?' they said, finger on the trigger.

He was a man, that he always performed his promises, that he had never said he would return.

There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.

A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent (which I cannot deny myself to be without being impious) will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

I have been given nothing. God makes men what they are.

Be cold, sober, wise, circumspect. Keep yourself low by the ground avoiding high questions. Expound the Law truly and open the veil of Moses to condemn all flesh and prove all men sinners, and set at broach the mercy of our Lord Jesus, and let wounded consciences drink of Him.

Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.

One attribute of the human being is the potential to keep on growing, to keep on developing. And I think there's room in each of us. I hate to hear someone say, oh well, that man or that woman is sixty or seventy or eighty or ninety or a hundred, so he's finished. There's always something that can be transformed on the upward spiral.

The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking, and is voting for the other guy.

The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.

There are no great men, just great circumstances, and how they handle those circumstances will determine the outcome of history.

What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology.

The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.

The sea hath fish for every man.