Men Quotes - Page 463

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

The human venture depends absolutely on this quality of awe and reverence and joy in the Earth and all that lives and grows upon the Earth. As soon as we isolate ourselves from these currents of life and from the profound mood that these engender within us, then our basic life-satisfactions are diminished. None of our machine-made products, none of our computer-based achievements can evoke that total commitment to life.

The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them.

Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake it in the likeness of the former world they knew. Youth could win, but had not learned to keep: and was pitiably weak against age. We stammered that we had worked for a new heaven and a new earth, and they thanked us kindly and made their peace.

A man's life is what he thinks about all day long.

I ain't no gangster. I'm a grown man trying to run a business.

Using the Product Development Waterfall diagram for Customer Development activities is like using a clock to tell the temperature. They both measure something, but not the thing you wanted.

I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority. This view sustains a conception of human dignity insofar as it sees in each man a capacity for choosing his own behavior. And as it turned out, many subjects did, indeed, choose to reject the experimenter's commands, providing a powerful affirmation of human ideals.

There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.

The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness. The capacity of the newspaper for degeneration is sophistically without limit, since it can always sink lower and lower in its choice of readers. At last it will stir up all those dregs of humanity which no state or government can control.

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.

The right hairstyle can make a plain woman beautiful and a beautiful woman unforgettable.

The man who is going through with God to be used in healing must be a man of longsuffering.

...dusk is the time when men whisper of matters about which they remain silent in the full light of the sun.

If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.

Jiu-jitsu is the gentle art. It's the art where a small man (or woman is going to prove to you, no matter how strong you are, no matter how mad you get, that you're going to have to accept defeat. Thats what Brazilian Jiu-jitsu is.

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

True happiness is always available to us, but first we have to create the environment for it to flourish.

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.

If there is one place on the face of the earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India. For more than 30 centuries, the tree of vision, with all its thousand branches and their millions of twigs, has sprung from this torrid land, the burning womb of the Gods. It renews itself tirelessly showing no signs of decay.

The gift of achievement is not the things you get, but the person you become.

The police are the public and the public are the police.

Making more money will not solve your problems if cash flow management is your problem.

I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.