Men Quotes - Page 754

Black men loving black men is THE revolutionary act.

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite - that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.

Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

The examen is a form of personal inventory. At day’s end, spend time in prayerful reflection on your day: your comings and goings, routines and disruptions, work and play, discoveries and disappointments. Think about who you met, or missed. Think about your moments of aloneness. In all, ask two questions: when was I most alive, most present, most filled and fulfilled today? And when was I most taxed, stressed, distracted, depleted today? A simpler, and more spiritually focused, version of those questions: when did I feel closest to God, and when farthest?

If you can find something that you're really passionate about, whether you're a man or a woman comes a lot less into play. Passion is a gender-neutralizing force.

Whether you interpret the Bible as literature or as the final word of whatever God may be, Christianity has given us an image of death and sexuality that we have based our culture around. A half-naked dead man hangs in most homes and around our necks, and we have just taken that for granted all of our lives.

You have your bad moments in your career and your good moments. And it's been a good ride so far, but it's not over yet.

Why can a man not act himself, be himself, and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone is power; that a borrowed word is weaker than our own weakness, however small we may be.

Morals are a matter of private agreement; decency is of public concern.

Hide nothing from your confessor... a sick man can be cured only by revealing his wounds.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

Man is his own worst enemy.

All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.

It is only the belief and the confidence we have in a God why man is able to understand his own social institutions, and move and live like a rational human being.

Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to the dust.

Unfortunately, President Obama's failed policies of new regulations, higher taxes, and Obamacare and his anti-business rhetoric have hit Hispanics especially hard. Big government really hurts those who are trying to make it.

Faith in the face of disappointment is only enhanced by laughter in the face of pain.

Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.

Yes, I'm an extremist. The Black race here in North America is in extremely bad condition. You show me a Black man who isn't an extremist and I'll show you one who needs psychiatric attention.

I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his.