Men Quotes - Page 365

This tree is indeed a Tree of Life, for without the higher and finer sentiments man does not life; he merely exists. If any branch of that tree does not bear fruit, the Master tells us that it shall be cut off and cast into the fire. It is the duty of all living things to produce some truly constructive labor as recognition of the divine life which is within them. God is most glorified when His children glorify His spirit within themselves.

Follow your instincts - you never know if your ideas will work out unless you try them.

Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away.

Let the Black man go - stop lying to us that you love us. And if you really love us, let us go and give us some of this territory that we can call our own; and give us the billions of dollars that we can get started with land and with tractors and the things that will make us an independent nation.

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

Crazy is a compliment.

When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.

Men may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Accomplishments have no color.

Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.

When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying.

It's a cosmic joke that I'm a lesbian, because I understand men so well but women are a complete mystery to me.

Computers can solve all kinds of problems except the unemployment problem they create.

I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine.

We have to get government out of the job of picking winners and losers. That's what they've been doing the last year and a half, getting in the way of businesses that are trying to reinvest to get our economy back on its feet.

An automobile goes nowhere efficiently unless it has a quick, hot spark to ignite things, to set the cogs of the machine in motion. So I try to make every player on my team feel he's the spark keeping our machine in motion.

If you look at things as they are, there does not seem to be a code either of man or of God on which one can pattern one's conduct. Wrong triumphs over right as much as right over wrong. Sometimes its triumphs are greater. What happens ultimately, you do not know. In such circumstances what can you do but cultivate an utter indifference to all values? Nothing matters. Nothing whatever.

When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

According to the first image of international relations, the locus of the important causes of war is found in the nature and behavior of man. Wars result from selfishness, from misdirected aggressive impulses, from stupidity.

The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.

Arthur Jay Klinghoffer, a professor of political science at Rutgers University, has argued that geography seems less relevant than ever in a world where nonstate actors -- malleable entities like ethnicities, for example -- are as powerful and important as the ones with governments and borders. Where on a map can you point to al-Qaeda? Or Google, or Wal-Mart? Everywhere and nowhere.

All roads lead to the judgment seat of Christ.

Privacy - like eating and breathing - is one of life's basic requirements.