Men Quotes - Page 584

I will not be distracted by noise, chatter, or setbacks. Patience, commitment, grace, and purpose will guide me.

Nothing in the past is as powerful as what we choose to do in the present moment.

Man would not be man if his dreams did not exceed his grasp... If I remember the sunflower forest it is because from its hidden reaches man arose. The green world is his sacred center. In moments of sanity he must still seek refuge there.

Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.

Real change will only happen when we fall in love with our planet. Only love can show us how to live in harmony with nature and with each other and save us from the devastating effects of environmental destruction and climate change

You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.

The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world.

If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.

The Bible is not such a book a man would write if he could, or could write if he would.

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

Painting... in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the inevitable.

The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.

All men are created to lead, but we need somebody to lead us.

I don't trade for excitement; I trade to win

But did the Founding Fathers ever intend for the federal government to involve itself in education, health care or retirement benefits? The answer, quite clearly, is no. The Constitution, in Article I, Section 8 - which contains the general welfare clause - seeks to restrain federal government, not expand it.

The wolf is neither man's competitor nor his enemy. He is a fellow creature with whom the earth must be shared.

Gain is delusion; loss is enlightenment.

If there were mistakes, there were mistakes. But a man has to have a line of work, no?

Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's good gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being a good gift of God, should be willfully corrupted by this stinking smoke.

Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.

Every day when a man or woman gets dressed, they are in effect defining who they are. That daily clean slate is a time in our lives when we can determine who we want to be.

If there was not one man Adam and one woman Eve, and a literal event of the one man Adam taking the fruit in rebellion and thus bringing sin and death into world, then one may as well throw the rest of the Bible away.

We are the sum of who we are. We pick certain things at certain moments that influenced us.

In the cross of Christ God is taking man dead-seriously so that he may open up for him the happy freedom of Easter. God takes upon himself the pain of negation and the God forsakenness of judgement to reconcile himself with his enemies and to give the godless fellowship with himself.