Men Quotes - Page 175

There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices.

I could cut silhouettes almost as soon as I could manage to hold a pair of scissors. I could paint, too, and read, and recite; but these things did not surprise anyone very much. But everybody was astonished about the scissor cuts, which seemed a more unusual accomplishment. The silhouettes were very much praised, and I cut out silhouettes for all the birthdays in the family. Did anyone warn me as to where this path would lead? Not in the least; I was encouraged to continue.

Are you maximizing your minute or are you making the most of the moment?

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.

True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.

I guess living without love, without experiencing it or being able to give it is pretty strong punishment.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.

Cell phones have changed us from a nation of self-reliant pioneer types into a bunch of men standing alone in supermarkets saying, ‘Okay, I’m in the tampon aisle, but I don’t see it.'

Fire and water do not mix, neither can you mix judgment of others with the desire to repent. If a man commits a sin before you at the very moment of his death, pass no judgment, because the judgment of God is hidden from men. It has happened that men have sinned greatly in the open but have done greater deeds in secret, so that those who would disparage them have been fooled, with smoke instead of sunlight in their eyes.

I support development and deployment of a limited national missile defense. Few if any of our duties surpass our obligation to provide for the common defense of our nation.

In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in our borders.

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

The stars may fall, but God's promises will stand and be fulfilled.

Men rush to arms for slight causes, or no cause at all, and once taken up there is no longer any respect for law, divine or human.

In Hitler the rare union has taken place between the most acute logical thinker and truly profound philosopher, and the iron man of action...I follow no leadership but that of Adolf Hitler and of God.

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

If a man has knocked out the teeth of a man of the same rank, his own teeth shall be knocked out.

You have to simply become aware of the movement of the mind, which begins this endless trouble.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

You have to dream, you have to have a vision, and you have to set a goal for yourself that might even scare you a little because sometimes that seems far beyond your reach. Then I think you have to develop a kind of resistance to rejection, and to the disappointments that are sure to come your way.

God will test you because He wants you to mature. He wants you to develop a walk with Him that is not based on your fluctuating emotions, but on your commitment to Him as you learn to walk by faith.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.