Men Quotes - Page 727

Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the minds of men.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

Indians chase the vision, white men chase the dollar.

The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the nation's greatness. But the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.

Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.

If you miss the moment, you miss your life.

I long for scenes where man has never trod;... There to abide with my Creator, God.

I am content with what I have, little be it, or much.

How can a good God appoint cruel people to positions of authority? The answer is simple: God is the originator of the authority, but He is not the author of the cruelty. Man is responsible for his cruel actions, not God. All authority is of God, but not all authority is godly.

When a man has done me an evil turn once, I don't like to give him the opportunity to do so twice.

Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.

Beware of a man of one book.

Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does

Every religion contains, in varying degrees, elements of the soft and the hard. For the sake of world peace, dialogue within religions and among them must strengthen the softer aspects.

I've never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow.

A man who sacrifices for his wife and serves her becomes much more attractive to her.

Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page.

Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.

When I hit around 65, 66, I started to feel tremendous worth and incredible personal esteem. I was becoming very cognisant of my contribution to the American spirit of helping your fellow man and all of the good stuff.

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.

The modern age has been characterized by a Promethean spirit, a restless energy that preys on speed records and shortcuts, unmindful of the past, uncaring of the future, existing only for the moment and the quick fix. The earthly rhythms that characterize a more pastoral way of life have been shunted aside to make room for the fast track of an urbanized existence. Lost in a sea of perpetual technological transition, modern man and woman find themselves increasingly alienated from the ecological choreography of the planet.

If you don't love yourself, you can't love anybody else. And I think as women we really forget that.

Women over thirty are at their best, but men over thirty are too old to recognize it

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.