Men Quotes - Page 934

Man does not only sell commodities, he sells himself and feels himself to be a commodity.

Christ is the head of the corpus mysticum, which includes all men from the beginning of the world to its end. He is not the president of a special-interest club.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.

Viktor Frankl, a Holocaust survivor and the author of Man's Search for Meaning, wrote that human beings create meaning in three ways: thought their work, though their relationships, and by how they choose to meet unavoidable suffering. Every life brings hardship and trial, and every life also offers deep possibilities for meaningful work and love... I've learned that courage and compassion are two sides of the same coin.

Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism, laziness and irrationality of men and women.

Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble.

Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.

It is the English, not their Government; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all the other smarmy traitors.

I got a job at an amusement park. I like to make the rides more terrifying by throwing a couple of screws onto the seats.

If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man.

Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.

The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil

Men professing godliness offer their bodies upon Satan's altar, and burn the incense of tobacco to his satanic majesty. Does this statement seem severe? The offering must be presented to some deity. Since God is pure and holy, and will accept nothing defiling in its character, He refuses this expensive, filthy, and unholy sacrifice; therefore we conclude that Satan is the one who claims the honor.

Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance

Bhuta ia, dewa ia. (Bali expression meaning Man is a demon, man is a god.)

Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.

There is a solitude, which each and every one of us has always carried with him, more inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains, more profound than the midnight sea; the solitude of self. Our inner being, which we call ourself, no eye nor touch of man or angel has ever pierced.

The world cries for men who are strong; strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer.

The paper tiger hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet.

The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.

I mean to retire, where nobody will have heard about my special skills. And conversation is mainly about the weather.

I wouldn't say Musashi is ordinary. But he is. That's what's extraordinary about him. He is not content to rely on whatever natural gifts he may have. Knowing he is ordinary, he is constantly trying to improve himself. No one appreciates the agonizing effort he's had to make. Now that his years of training have yielded such spectacular results, everybody's talking about his 'God-given talent.' That's how men who don't try very hard comfort themselves.

If man can take care of man, nature can take care of the rest.

Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.