Men Quotes - Page 397

Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.

I have read many definitions of what is a conservationist, and written not a few myself, but I suspect that the best one is written not with a pen, but with an axe. It is a matter of what a man thinks about while chopping, or while deciding what to chop. A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke he is writing his signature on the face of his land.

Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.

There can be no question about whether we should or should not transform our society in the direction of sustainability.

I had fought on behalf of man against the sea, but I realized that it had become more urgent to fight on behalf of the sea against men.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

I'd leave London only for Man United, the club of my dreams. For Mr Ferguson I'd also stay silent on the bench.

I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.

The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.

A man doesn't go to drink coffee after climbing, coffee is integral part of the climbing.

To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.

We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.

I believed the people had a true instinct in most matters of government when left alone. That they were not swayed, as specially favoured individuals were, by personal interest, but rather by a sense of what best served the common good. That they recognized the truth when it was put before them, and that a leader can guide so long as he kept to the right lines. I did not think it was a mark of leadership to try to make the people do what one wanted them to do.

No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities.

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

Lobbyists have more offices in Washington than the President. You see, the President only tells Congress what they should do. Lobbyists tell'em what they will do.

The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.

Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.

The struggle for the aim of the liberation of women is the child of fire born on the lap of our liberation movement.

Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.

The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God's will, the less I value intelligence that wants to know and will that wants to do; and as the only element of salvation I recognize faith, which can wait patiently, without asking too many questions.

My father and I used to tussle about me becoming an actor. He's from strong, Presbyterian Scottish working-class stock, and he used to sit me down and say, 'You know, 99 percent of actors are out of work. You've been educated, so why do you want to spend your life pretending to be someone else when you could be your own man?'

After lengthy consideration, my views have evolved sufficiently to support marriage equality legislation. This position doesn't require any religious denomination to alter any of its tenets; it simply forbids government from discrimination regarding who can marry whom.