Men Quotes - Page 130

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

Always be looking for that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together — man, you got it.

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

Once a man criticized my desire for knowledge by saying that it was not fitting for a woman to possess learning because there was so little of it. I replied that it was even less fitting for a man to possess ignorance because there was so much of it.

The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man's ignorance.

I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.

When our souls are healthy, we change the environment; the environment doesn't change us.

Discipline isn't a dirty word. Far from it. Discipline is the one thing that separates us from chaos and anarchy. Discipline implies timing. It's the precursor to good behavior, and it never comes from bad behavior. People who associate discipline with punishment are wrong: with discipline, punishment is unnecessary.

And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end.

Learning how to live in the greatest peace, partnership, and brotherhood with all men and women, of whatever description, is a moving and fascinating adventure.

I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.

The future belongs to the common man with uncommon determination.

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

The more man realises his humanity, the lonelier he feels.

There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.

You can crush a man with journalism.

You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.

The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.

I have talked about choosing rather than acting from compulsion. When you feel that you have to live according to someone else's direction or live so that you never disappoint or hurt anybody, then your life is a continual assessment of whether or not you please other people.

Surfers are the ‘throw-aheads’ of mankind, not the dregs; they aren’t the black sheep of humanity, but the futurists and they are leading the way to where man ultimately wants to be. The act of the ride is the epitome of ‘be here now’, and the tube ride is the most acute form of that. Which is: your future is right ahead of you, the past is exploding behind you, your wake is disappearing, your footprints are washed from the sand. It’s a non-productive, non-depletive act that’s done purely for the value of the dance itself. And that is the destiny of man.

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

Government is not a trade which any man or body of men has a right to set up and exercise for his own emolument, but is altogether a trust, in right of those by whom that trust is delegated, and by whom it is always resumable. It has of itself no rights; they are altogether duties.

Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit.

The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.