Men Quotes - Page 955

Confidence is sexy! I'm comfortable with my body and not afraid to show it off

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.

It is the interplay between our experience and how we respond to it that makes karma devastating or helpfully invigorating.

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

The responsibility of leadership is not to come up with all the ideas but to create an environment in which great ideas can thrive.

The United States is at a critical juncture in time. Our government is riddled with historic debt, and the limited resources of philanthropic and non-profit efforts cannot meet the scale of social challenges we face with necessary force.

Obviously the government of [Mussolini's] time, out of fear that German power might lead to complete victory, preferred to ally itself with Hitler's Germany rather than opposing it. The racial laws were the worst fault of Mussolini as a leader, who in so many other ways did well.

We believe that we should come to an agreement with the Palestinians. But we need two to tango.

Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.

Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be of the greatest importance to us and which have the task of solving the riddles of the universe and of reconciling us to the sufferings of life -- it is precisely those elements that are the least well authenticated of any.

In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings a change from egoism to altruism.

It is not so much that man is a herd animal, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief.

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.

When security comes, every man for himself

Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the voters does not respond to their needs. I believe the chief reason for this is that it is ruled by a small group of old men.

Attachment is your biggest strength and your biggest weakness. Though it gives you the power to love someone more than yourself, it becomes difficult to live when you lose something you are attached to. Even when we have lost, we should go beyond that and get truly attached to someone. Loving someone truly is the most beautiful feeling.

To live in the Great Way is neither easy nor difficult, but those with limited views are fearful and irresolute: the faster they hurry, the slower they go, and clinging cannot be limited: even to be attached to the idea of enlightenment is to go astray. Just let things be in their own way and there will be neither coming nor going. Obey the nature of things (your own nature), and you will walk freely and undisturbed.

If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.

It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.

Here, no mercy is shown. One hates one's fellow man to the glory of God.

Because it strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy.

I am the man who put the hair in hair metal.

The wide wonder of Broadway is disconsolate in the daytime; but gaudily glorious at night, with a milling crowd filling sidewalk and roadway, silent, going up, going down, between upstanding banks of brilliant lights, each building braided and embossed with glowing, many-coloured bulbs of man-rayed luminance. A glowing valley of the shadow of life. The strolling crowd went slowly by through the kinematically divine thoroughfare of New York.