Men Quotes - Page 769

Self improvement is masturbation.

when the boogie man goes to sleep he checks his closet for me

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

I certainly hope I'm not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause.

There wasn't a key moment when I knew I wanted to quit.

Our people could not talk with these white-faced men, but they used signs which all people understand.

If I would expect better spiritual conditions to serve, I would not have started until the present moment.

It takes a real man to make a true confession-a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.

Nobody else can make us discouraged; it is a choice that we alone make when facing disappointments.

It seems odd, that certain men who talk so much of what the Holy Spirit reveals to themselves, should think so little of what he has revealed to others.

Men will never be great in theology until they are great in suffering.

It is about a period in aviation which is now gone, but which was probably more interesting than any the future will bring. As time passes, the perfection of machinery tends to insulate man from contact with the elements in which he lives. The 'stratosphere' planes of the future will cross the ocean without any sense of the water below. Like a train tunneling through a mountain, they will be aloof from both the problems and the beauty of the earth's surface.

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world

Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.

What we do flows from who we are.

I do not intend for 'honor, courage, and commitment' to be just words; I expect them to frame the way that we live and act.

History teaches us that the capacity of things to get worse is limitless. Roman history suggests that the short, happy life of the American republic may be coming to its end... the US will probably maintain a facade of constitutional government and drift along until financial bankruptcy overtakes it.

I want all hellions to quit puffing that hell fume in God's clean air.

I adore my black skin and my kinky hair. The Negro hair is more educated than the white man's hair. Because with Negro hair, where you put it, it stays. It's obedient. The hair of the white, just give one quick movement, and it's out of place. It won't obey. If reincarnation exists I want to come back black.

The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And its a woman whos extremely vain.

The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.

No government which governs by the use of force can survive except by force. There is no going back because force begets force and the perpetrators of crimes live in fear that they might become victims in their turn.

Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.