Men Quotes - Page 212

Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.

The human heart by nature seeks after God. There is a spiritual vacuum in every man until it is filled by Christ.

The children and nature movement is fueled by this fundamental idea: the child in nature is an endangered species, and the health of children and the health of the Earth are inseparable.

All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.

There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism.

The Founders never intended for Americans to trust their government. Our entire Constitution was predicated on the notion that government was a necessary evil, to be restrained and minimized as much as possible.

Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.

Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunitty should be equal, must be equal, but achievement must remain individual. - Drizzt Do'Urden

Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia.This vast power, gathered into one, endeavored to subdue at a blow our country and yours and the whole of the region within the straits, and then, Solon, your country shone forth, in the excellence of her virtue and strength, among all mankind.

All over the world, young men and young women will always dream dreams.

Each new generation asks – What is the meaning of life? A more fertile way of putting the question would be – Why does man need a meaning to life?

Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.

Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live.

We already have a sabbatical system. It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it.

A poor but humble man who gives nothing to charity is preferrable to a rich but haughty man who does.

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: "Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown." And he replied: "Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light, and safer than a known way."

I think playing coy is silly. Speak your mind. If a man gets turned off, he's the wrong man.

I understand that a man can have everything having nothing and nothing having everything.

Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime.

The takings clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.

I have met with political leaders, legislators, and diplomats, seeking the next steps to press in reducing and eliminating the nuclear threat in this century. I have participated in public coalitions developing programmes for action to combat the global rash of small arms. All are trying and making a difference.

The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from it's profits or so dependent on it's favors, that there will be no opposition from that class.