Men Quotes - Page 990

They sicken of the calm who know the storm.

My whole life so far, my whole experience has been that our failure has been not to love enough. This conviction brought me to a rejection of the radical movement after my early membership in the Socialist Party, the Industrial Workers of the World, and the Communist affiliates I worked with.

You do have great love within you at this very moment.

Take a moment to gather your thoughts about your situation and ask, "What would Love do?" Then channel that energy in your words and actions.

For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country.

Cyborg writing must not be about the Fall, the imagination of a once-upon-a-time wholeness before language, before writing, before Man. Cyborg writing is about the power to survive, not on the basis of original innocence, but on the basis of seizing the tools to mark the world that marked them as other...

Leadership implies movement toward something and convictions provide that direction.

It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.

Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment.

It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.

Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstripe suit.

Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.

One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough.

Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people's entertainment.

We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind.

The slow-witted approach to the HIV epidemic was the result of a thousand years of Christian malpractice and the childlike approach of the church to sexuality. If any single man was responsible, it was Augustine of Hippo who murdered his way to sainthood spouting on about the sins located in his genitals.

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.

I find I'm luckier when I work harder.

Biblical backing for Mormon behavior is easy to find, although Mark Twain is reported to have denied its legitimacy to a Mormon. The Mormon claimed polygamy was perfectly moral and he defied Twain to cite any passage of Scripture which forbade it. 'Well,' said Twain, 'how about that passage that tells us no man can serve two masters at the same time?'

Time is the most precious element of human existence.

But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the blood of the other half, and violate the fundamental feelings of humanity in order to sustain the cause of God: as though it were necessary to cease to be a man in order to prove oneself religious!

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

Checkers taught me that a King is a man with another man on top of him. But life taught me that that's actually called a Queen.

Every man needs his Siren to check his courage and strength when he hears her song in his travels through the unknown.

More men feel comfortable doing "public speaking," while more women feel comfortable doing "private" speaking.