Men Quotes - Page 495

Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.

I know what kind of man it takes to get involved with something as barbarous as human trafficking.” “I get it, Swopes. He’s not the kind of man you take home to meet your stepmom.” I rethought that. “Wait a minute. Maybe my stepmom would like to meet him. Do you think he ships to Istanbul?

Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.

Consider everything an experiment.

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

I suppose I tend to like slightly darker things - people have levelled that on me before and I accept that because in my opinion, if I mention the best movies or the best books, there's always something that's involving slightly darker element of out psyche. I like seeing people under pressure. I like seeing what happens to people when they're under pressure.

Do not let the bread of the hungry mildew in your larder! Do not let moths eat the poor man's cloak. Do not store the shoes of the barefoot. Do not hoard the money of the needy. Things you possess in too great abundance belong to the poor and not to you. You are the thief who steals from God if you are able to help your neighbor and refuse to do it.

How few young men realize that their success in life depends more upon what they are than upon what they know. It is self-esteem that has brought the race this far.

The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

The truest success is but the development of self.

Experience shows that the frequent use of severe punishment has never rendered a people better. The death of a criminal is a less effective means of restraining crimes than the permanent example of a man deprived of his liberty during the whole of his life to make amends for the injury he has done to the public.

At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.

There does exist and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical Right believes the Communists act. In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so. I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for 20 years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960s, to examine its papers and secret record.

It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens.

In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but of spiritual conceptions. Equality, liberty, popular sovereignty, the rights of man - these are not elements which we can see and touch. They are ideals. They have their source and their roots in the religious convictions. They belong to the unseen world. Unless the faith of the American people in these religious convictions is to endure, the principles of our Declaration will perish. We can not continue to enjoy the result if we neglect and abandon the cause.

In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.

we follow One who stood and wept at the grave of Lazarus-not surely, because He was grieved that Mary and Martha wept, and sorrowed for their lack of faith (though some thus interpret) but because death, the punishment of sin, is even more horrible in his eyes than in ours.

Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect.

Man can't do without God. Just like you're thirsty, you have to drink water. You just can't go without God.

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.

Laddie, that man scored 200 goals in 270 matches - an incredible record - and he has won cup after cup as a manager. When he talks, pin back your ears.

Winning coaches look for opportunities to praise. Anything that reflects a commitment to the team is praiseworthy