Men Quotes - Page 883

One must also accept that one has 'uncreative' moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass.

Those moments in your life when you feel absolute exhilaration are moments of complete alignment with the Source within you.

[A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly high level of orderliness (= fairly low level of entropy) really consists in continually sucking orderliness from its environment.

If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.

To every man of us, Tobruk was a symbol of British resistance and we were now going to finish with it for good.

If you can modify a cell, it's only a short step to modifying a mouse, and if you can modify a mouse, it's only a step to modifying a higher animal, even man.

Retirement is the last opportunity for individuals to reinvent themselves, let go of the past, and find peace and happiness within.

The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.

where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.

It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it was beyond our belief.

Women are never what they seem to be. There is the woman you see and there is the woman who is hidden. Buy the gift for the woman who is hidden.

There are as many violent women as men, but there's a lot of money in hating men, particularly in the United States -- millions of dollars. It isn't a politically good idea to threaten the huge budgets for women's refuges by saying that some of the women who go into them aren't total victims.

Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.

While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements.

Society, and the family as its psycho social agent, has to solve a difficult problem: How to break a person's will without his being aware of it? Yet by a complicated process of indoctrination, rewards, punishments, and fitting ideology, it solves this task by and large so well that most people believe they are following their own will and are unaware that their will itself is conditioned and manipulated.

Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other.

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

Although the problem of transmuting chemical elements into each other is much older than a satisfactory definition of the very concept of chemical element, it is well known that the first and most important step towards its solution was made only nineteen years ago by the late Lord Rutherford, who started the method of the nuclear bombardments.

The reticent volcano keeps His never slumbering plan - Confided are his projects pink To no precarious man.

Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.

Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.

In the twentieth century, men -- all of us -- find themselves compelled to commit or condone evil for the sake of preventing an evil believed to be greater. And the tragedy is that we do not know whether the evil we condone will not in the end be greater than the evil we seek to avert-- or be identified with.

For Christians, the first priority may be theological self-understanding. For Jews it is, and after Auschwitz must be, simple safety for their children. In pursuit of this goal, Jews seek - are morally required to seek - independence of other people's charity. They therefore seek safety - are morally required to seek it - through the existence of a Jewish state. Except among the theologically or humanly perverse, Zionism - the commitment to the safety and genuine sovereignty of the State of Israel - is not negotiable.