Men Quotes - Page 926

I have now lived long enough to know that, whatever our situation, our troubles melt and disappear like frost in the morning sun when we dwell upon our blessings rather than our disappointments. No matter how pessimistic one's view may become of the times and the seasons, we can always fall back on special friendship, on faithful, personal love, and on simple, true dealings in our own personal lives.

I could not help concluding, that this man felt the most supreme pleasure, while he was driven on, so fast and so smoothly, by the sea.

The distribution of patronage of the Government is by far the most disagreeable duty of the President.

A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.

A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought-evolved being. For such knowledge necessitates the understanding of others as the result of thought, and as he develops a right understanding, and sees ever more clearly the internal relations of things by the action of cause and effect, he ceases to fuss, fume, worry, and grieve. He remains poised, steadfast, serene.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

One day, to everyone’s astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up.

If you want to really know higher dimensions of life, there needs to be a constant sense of peacefulness and joyfulness within you

We talk about how many women were raped last year, not about how many men raped women.

Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.

Sometimes men pick fights just for something to do-just to feel something like the threat of harm and the possibility of triumph.

Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears.

Before money or anything else. Money cannot buy it...Because a man I do not trust could not get money from me on all the bonds in Christendom.

Am I about to discover where you, Ron, and Hermione disappeared to while you were supposed to be in the back room of Fred and George's shop?" How did you...?" Harry, please. You're talking to the man who raised Fred and George.

Course Dumbledore trusts you,” growled Moody. “He’s a trusting man, isn’t he? Believes in second chances. But me — I say there are spots that don’t come off, Snape. Spots that never come off, d’you know what I mean?

A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful modesty in speech, with much understatement, have behind their masks an appalling and impregnable conceit of themselves.

Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.

There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.

Everyday is a birthday; every moment of it is new to us; we are born again, renewed for fresh work and endeavor.

Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind. By setting up arbitrary sounds and combinations of sounds to represent certain mental nuances, he developed a method of communication--but one which in its clumsiness and thick-thumbed inadequacy degenerated all the delicacy of the mind into gross and guttural signaling.

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, a symbol rather than reason by which men are moved.

I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.

I never had a fondness for gems or the extravagance of Harry Winston or Van Cleef & Arpels. I've always liked the more flamboyant, imaginative things. I lusted after costume jewelry. My husband was a very lucky man.

In the 1970's and in early 1980's, a startling discovery was made that almost every problem contains an element of solutions.

One of the great gifts that you can give people is to cook for them.