Men Quotes - Page 762

Sin had no sooner come into the world than God came in grace seeking the sinner, and so from the first question, 'Adam, where art thou?' on to the incarnation, God has been speaking to man.

God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor.

More than guided missiles, all the world needs guided men.

There is very little difference between men and women in space.

The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

There's magic to love... Millions of years ago we evolved three basic drives: the sex love, romantic love, and attachment to a long-term partner. These circuits are deeply embedded in the human brian. They're going to survive as long as our species survive on what Shakespeare called, this "mortal coil."

Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.

I call'd the devil, and he came, And with wonder his form did I closely scan; He is not ugly, and is not lame, But really a handsome and charming man. A man in the prime of life is the devil, Obliging, a man of the world, and civil; A diplomatist too, well skill'd in debate, He talks quite glibly of church and state.

The propaganda of communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are simply hunger, envy, death.

If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.

A great accomplishment shouldn't be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next leap forward.

Whatever the issue, let freedom offer us a hundred choices, instead of having government force one answer on everyone.

Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.

The test, surely, of a creed is not the ability of those who accept it to announce their faith; its test is its ability to change their behavior in the ordinary round of daily life. Judged by that test, I know no religion that has a moral claim upon the allegiance of men.

A Magician is not a Magician because he knows tricks, but because he knows Magic - the principles, the fundamentals.

I tried to commit suicide because I sacrificed everything for Hitler. And that man whom we sacrificed everything for left us all alone. If he had committed suicide four years before, it would have been all right.

No man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed.

The earth turns, and the seasons, and for all his pride and power man cannot temper the winds or change their course. They are the unseen tides that shape our days and our years.

The cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority of men. Every valuable thing that has been added to the store of man's possessions has been derided by them when it was new, and destroyed by them when they had the power. They have fought every new truth ever heard of, and they have killed every truth-seeker who got into their hands.

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong.