Men Quotes - Page 198

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man. The grain of the wood must relate closely to its function. The abutment of the edge of one board to an adjoining board can mean the success or failure of a piece. () Gradually a form evolves, much as nature produces the tree in the first place. The object created can live forever. The tree lives on in its new form. The object cannot follow a transitory “style”, here for a moment, discarded the next. Its appeal must be universal. Cordial and receptive, it should invite a meeting with man

When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.

They should put expiration dates on clothing so we men will know when they go out of style.

In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he tells himself.

A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.

By giving the government unlimited powers, the most arbitrary rule can be made legal; and in this way a democracy may set up the most complete despotism imaginable.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

We must open our eyes and see that modern civilization has become so complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven with thelives of other men in other countries as to make it impossible to be in this world and out of it.

Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the constant omission of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

I believe that marriage isn't between a man and woman; but between love and love.

The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.

Deafness, though it be total and congenital, imposes no limits on the intellectual development of its subjects, save in the single direction of the appreciation of acoustic phenomena.

Men (people) are rarely aware of the real reasons which motivate their actions.

The Christian is a man who can be certain about the ultimate even when he is most uncertain about the immediate.

I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.

It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

One of the things I have always said about the man-woman relationship is that I don't want anybody to walk ahead of me and I don't want anybody to walk behind me. I want a man who will walk along beside me. And that's how I feel about equal rights.

There is a myth, sometimes widespread, that a person need only do inner work...that a man is entirely responsible for his own problems; and that to cure himself, he need only change himself....The fact is, a person is so formed by his surroundings, that his state of harmony depends entirely on his harmony with his surroundings.

A man says to me, 'Can you explain the seven trumpets of the Revelation?' No, but I can blow one in your ear, and warn you to escape from the wrath to come.

The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.