Men Quotes - Page 622

Self-Control is the very essence of character. To be able to look a man straight in the eye, calmly and deliberately, without the slightest ruffle of temper under extreme provocation, gives a sense of power which nothing else can give. To feel that you are always, not sometimes, master of yourself, gives a dignity and strength to character, buttresses it, supports it on every side, as nothing else can. This is the culmination of thought mastery.

But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

Here's to the man Who owns the land That bears the grapes That makes the wine That tastes as good As this does.

Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story

In our common parlance we speak of the man "with no tea" in him, when he is insusceptible to the serio-comic interests of the personal drama.

Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.

Love without attachment is light.

Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment.

It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.

never believe a man can change a woman those men are pretenders who think that they created women from one of their ribs

A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them

In sex we have the source of man's true connection with the cosmos and of his servile dependence. The categories of sex, male and female, are cosmic categories, not merely anthropological categories.

A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline; for this is the sole art that belongs to him who rules, and it is of such force that it not only upholds those who are born princes, but it often enables men to rise from a private station to that rank. And, on the contrary, it is seen that when princes have thought more of ease than of arms they have lost their states. And the first cause of your losing it is to neglect this art; and what enables you to acquire a state is to be master of the art.

Sleep conceals the creative act while the objective world reveals it. In sleep man impresses the subconscious with his conception of himself.

Man's responsibility, then, is to choose his destination; the motive power to bring him there is furnished by the Infinite.

Freedom cannot be achieved unless women have been emancipated from all forms of oppression... Our endeavors must be about the liberation of the woman, the emancipation of the man and the liberty of the child.

I dream of a Digital India where technology ensures the Citizen-Government interface is incorruptible.

Great men are never cruel without necessity.

Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.

I believe that nothing has been more wholesome for America, for our government, for our politics, than the increased participation of women.

You're going through college, and you're going to be faced with a lot of things. You're going to face adversity, the main thing is don't quit. For many people it's easy to quit, but don't. That's what separates the winners from the losers, what separates the all-stars from the also-rans.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.

Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional objects women made often spoke in a secret language, bore a covert imagery. When we read these images in needlework, in paintings, in quilts, rugs and scrapbooks, we sometimes find a cry for help, sometimes an allusion to a secret political alignment, sometimes a moving symbol about the relationships between men and women.