Men Quotes - Page 588

The American heritage was one of individual liberty, personal responsibility and freedom from government ... Unfortunately ... that heritage has been lost. Americans no longer have the freedom to direct their own lives ... Today, it is the government that is free - free to do whatever it wants. There is no subject, no issue, no matter ... that is not subject to legislation.

The hermeneutic consciousness, which must be awakened and kept awake, recognized that in the age of science philosophy's claim of superiority has something chimerical and unreal about it. But though the will of man is more than ever intensifying its criticism of what has gone before to the point of becoming utopian or eschatological consciousness, the hermeneutic consciousness seeks to confront that will with something of the truth of remembrance: with what is still and ever again real.

Electronic music lends itself to an abstract way of storytelling, so it keeps evolving. Theres a whole movement truly driving music further and there is no other music innovating as much as film music

The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.

There is nothing to fear, because you cannot fail... only learn, grow and become better than you've ever been before.

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.

We have a saying in Marseilles: a man in no hurry gets nowhere fast. I have been in no hurry for eight years.

Everything will be okay in the end. If it`s not okay, than there is always beer

If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation.

All the different classes of beings which taken together make up the universe are, in the ideas of God who knows distinctly their essential gradations, only so many ordinates of a single curve so closely united that it would be impossible to place others between any two of them, since that would imply disorder and imperfection. Thus men are linked with the animals, these with the plants and these with the fossils which in turn merge with those bodies which our senses and our imagination represent to us as absolutely inanimate.

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

The so-called godly man may be more likely to do serious wrong than a man who deeply questions himself. The 'godly man' often zealously follows religious precepts that, in the end, justify an unjust injury to others, while the questioning man, addressing his own conscience, may have the better chance to consider all the circumstances and come to the just decision.

A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government; to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another and for their fellow-citizens of the United States at large.

I thought men like that shot themselves.

We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.

Life's deepest meaning is not found in accomplishments , but in relationships

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.