Men Quotes - Page 156

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

An honest man is always a child.

From time immemorial men have quenched their thirst with water without knowing anything about its chemical constituents. In like manner we do not need to be instructed in all the mysteries of doctrine, but we do need to receive the Living Water which Jesus Christ will give us and which alone can satisfy our souls.

Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.

The inner boy in a messed-up family may keep on being shamed, invaded, disappointed, and paralyzed for years and years. "I am a victim," he says, over and over; and he is. But that very identification with victimhood keeps the soul house open and available for still more invasions. Most American men today do not have enough awakened or living warriors inside to defend their soul houses. And most people, men or women, do not know what genuine outward or inward warriors would look like, or feel like.

Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow to Authority.

There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Spread the seeds of encouragement far and wide, and delight in the bountiful harvest that they will surely bring.

One person plus one typewriter constitutes a movement.

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. In science you want to say something that nobody knew before, in words which everyone can understand. In poetry you are bound to say ... something that everyone knows already in words that nobody can understand. Commenting to him about the poetry J. Robert Oppenheimer wrote.

When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at himself he knows nothing about himself.

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

I'm thankful for women. I think women are more intelligent than men. Also, without women, there would be no cookies.

How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

The greatest risk to man is not that he aims to high and misses, but that he aims to low and hits.

Although it is important to study and train for skill in techniques, for the man who wishes to truly accomplish the way of budo, it is important to makehis whole life in training and therefore not aiming for skill and strength alone, but also for spiritual attainment.

Love, yes, love your calling, for this holy and generous love will impart strength to you so as to enable you to surmount all obstacles.

Optimism is a tool with a certain clear set of benefits: it fights depression, it promotes achievement and produces better health.

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.

To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.

I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man by the color of his skin. It teaches me to judge him by his deeds .

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.