Men Quotes - Page 427

I know he'd be a poorer man if he never saw an eagle fly.

Nothing in life has happened to you. It's happened for you. Every disappointment. Every wrong. Even every closed door has helped make you into who you are.

If you ain't thinkin about man and God and law, then you ain't thinkin about nothin'.

You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.

If it was up to me, there wouldn't be no such thing as the establishment.

A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world.

Money has changed today's black athletes. Those who have the ability as African men to bring a change in a community that so desperately needs it are concentrating only on their own careers, some charities and how much money they can make.

The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.

I don't get discouraged because of the comments. After all, they don't really know me.

But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of a few States only. They would be signals of general alarm . . . But what degree of madness could ever drive the federal government to such an extremity.

There seems to be a lot of excitement around something that, to me, is a yawn, frankly.

You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.

Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.

God's Word is as good as He is. There is an old saying that a man is as good as his word. Well, God is as good as His Word. His character is behind what He has said.

I would rather receive one percent of the income of 100 men, than 100% of the income of one man.

Even great men can be corrupted

Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves.

Baptism is not the work of man but of Christ, and this sacrament is so holy that it would not be defiled, even if the minister were a murderer.

There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.

The interesting thing about that is one of the greatest critics of socialism and leftwing writings was Robert Michels who wrote a series of essays called "The Iron Law of Oligarchy" and in these essays he discusses how no matter what sorts of freedoms are advertised or put into a society structure, that all societies, all form of governments - whether they be a Roman republic, whether they be a democracy, whether they be a Russian communist system, whatever, a tribe... a tribal council - all of the continuously, throughout the ages, have all converted back into an oligarchy.

There is hardly any politically minded man who acknowledges and agrees with every point of the program of a political party.

The best of men choose one thing in preference to all else, immortal glory in preference to mortal good; whereas the masses simply glut themselves like cattle.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.