Men Quotes - Page 956

If anything could have pulled me out of retirement it would have been an Indiana Jones film.

Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.

Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody.

Scatman, fat man, black and white and brown man, tell me 'bout the color of your soul.

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.

A plan relieves you of the torment of choice.

To a worldly man, a God-intoxicated person will appear mad and he will laugh at him, But to the God-intoxicated man, the worldly appear insane, foolish, misled, blind.

I use my single windup, my double windup, my triple windup, my hesitation windup, my no windup. I also use my step-n-pitch-it, my submariner, my sidearmer and my bat dodger. Man's got to do what he's got to do.

As long as a man has desires there is no end to his transmigration. It is the desires alone that make him take one body after another. There will be rebirth for a man if he has even the desire to eat a piece of candy.

Commitment to the rule of law provides a basic assurance that people can know what to expect whether what they do is popular or unpopular at the time.

Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul, architects should lead in procuring social and environmental change.

It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.

All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man.

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.

I am such a good man, at bottom, such a good man, how is it that nobody ever noticed it?

To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.

In short, it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the entering into society, to renounce their essential natural rights, or the means of preserving those rights; when the grand end of civil government, from the very nature of its institution, is for the support, protection, and defence of those very rights; the principal of which, as is before observed, are Life, Liberty, and Property.

I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.