Men Quotes - Page 419

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.

It's not so much wanting to die, but controlling that moment, choosing your own way.

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries - a million complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture. Nature can cope with small rents in the fabric; it can even, after a time, cope with major disasters like floods, fires, and earthquakes. What nature cannot cope with is the steady undermining of its fabric by the activities of man.

There are three ways that men get what they want: by planning, by working, and by praying.

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.

Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals

Star Trek says that it has not all happened, it has not all been discovered, that tomorrow can be as challenging and adventurous as any time man has ever lived.

If you find someone with wisdom, good judgment, and good actions; make him a companion.

Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

Man's indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of young idealists. In practice a misnomer

My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.

Trees are massacred, houses go up — faces, faces everywhere. Man is spreading. Man is the cancer of the earth.

No, I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity, but I know my husband and I know he can be trusted.

I am not a theologian or a scholar, but I am very aware of the fact that pain is necessary to all of us. In my own life, I think I can honestly say that out of the deepest pain has come the strongest conviction of the presence of God and the love of God.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

Ultimately one must abandon the path to enlightenment. If you still define yourself as a Buddhist, you are not a buddha yet.

Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal and dissimulate behind words or paintings or statues or other forms of human expression, but the moment you move you stand revealed, for good or ill, for what you are.

To see the ball, to run after it, makes me the happiest man in the world

Appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive.

I wonder why it is that we so often imprison ourselves in the opinions of other people. There can be no punishment worse than conspiring in our own diminishment.

At its heart, legalism is a desire to appear holy. It is trying to be justified before men and not God.

The music tends to be an expression of one's darker moments.