Men Quotes - Page 641

To remember non-attachment is to remember what freedom is all about. If we get attached, even to a beautiful state of being, we are caught, and ultimately we will suffer. We work to observe anything that comes our way, experience it while it is here, and be able to let go of it.

During the air war of 1944, a four-man combat crew on a B-17 bomber took a vow to never abandon one another no matter how desperate the situation. The aircraft was hit by flak during a mission and went into a terminal dive, and the pilot ordered everyone to bail out. The top turret gunner obeyed the order, but the ball turret gunner discovered that a piece of flak had jammed his turret and he could not get out. The other three men in his pact could have bailed out with the parachutes, but they stayed with him until the plan hit the ground and exploded. They all died.

Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into another's woe. Sorrow's the great community in which all men born of woman are members at one time or another.

Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.

Walk on air against your better judgement.

Now that I have created moe, men of the world will never know peace as they struggle with the pitfalls of 3D.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

More inhumanity (to man) has been done by man himself than any other of nature's causes.

But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.

I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.

God created you for the first and greatest commandment, to be a lover of God.

Guess it's true I'm not good at a one night stand , but I still need love cause I'm just a man

Down to earth advice about the path that leads away from the kingdom of the hollow men.

I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.

Man is the hardest animal to kill. If he gets away he will come back to kill you.

It's better to build boys than mend men.

Black men should be with Black women. And they should love and honor them.

If we want to be a person of integrity, we act as if we have integrity and we will be a person of integrity. If we want to be a person of charity and love, we act as if we have that characteristic and we will be that person. The Savior alluded to this principle when he asked, ‘What manner of men ought ye to be?’ Verily I say unto you, even as I am.' We should strive to become like him by acting as he would act.

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

Governments have nothing. They can't create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another at the destruction of the principles of freedom, and we ought to challenge that concept.

Spectacular achievements come from unspectacular preparation.