Men Quotes - Page 174

Many people continue to think of sharks as man-eating beasts. Sharks are enormously powerful and wild creatures, but youre more likely to be killed by your kitchen toaster than a shark!

It is necessary to recover the primeval force of the shock taking place at the moment when opposite a man (the viewer) there stood for the first time a man (the actor) deceptively similar to us, yet at the same time infinitely foreign, beyond an impassable barrier.

Interviewing somebody is a lot different than being handed a stick in a 20,000-seat arena and trying to sell tickets. You're very green when you start. I'm still learning things to this day. I'm decent at interviews now, but man, getting people to buy tickets is the easiest thing in the world for me.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of employment.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

Rich, 'the Old Man said dreamily, 'is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what you want to do. Rich is a little whiskey to drink and some food to eat and a roof over your head and a fish pole and a boat and a gun and a dollar for a box of shells. Rich is not owing any money to anybody, and not spending what you haven't got.

Nobody on this planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change.

Man is the measure of all things, of the reality of those which are, and of the unreality of those which are not.

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths.

All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.

man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer

Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?

When I became a man, and I started to understand the difference between the truth and what your parents are supposed to tell you, there's a difference, know what I mean?

Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without.

Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.

Most bad," the host concluded. "If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and dinnertime conversation. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly detest everyone around them.

Man must behave like a lighthouse; he must shine day and night for the goodness of everyman.

I fear John Knox's prayers more than an army of ten thousand men.

Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air?

I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being-that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

The adult works to improve his environment while the child works to improve himself.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.