Men Quotes - Page 215

Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.

God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

The hard work of sowing seed in what looks like perfectly empty earth has a time of harvest. All suffering, pain, emptiness, disappointment is seed: sow it in God and He will, finally, bring a crop of joy from it.

The measure of a man is in the lives he’s touched.

What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms. This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consiousness of self, deep inner feelings, an excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression and with all this yet to die. It seems like a hoax, which is why one type of cultural man rebels openly against the idea of God. What kind of deity would crate such a complex and fancy worm food?

All men are created equal. Some work harder in preseason.

Gender equality, historically has been predominantly a women's movement for women. But I think the impact of gender inequality and how it's affecting men hasn't really been addressed.

Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

Nobody tells you what you can and can't do.

The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry.

On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly

If woman alone had suffered under these mistaken traditions [of women's subordination], if she could have borne the evil by herself, it would have been less pitiful, but her brother man, in the laws he created and ignorantly worshipped, has suffered with her. He has lost her highest help; he has crippled the intelligence he needed; he has belittled the very source of his own being and dwarfed the image of his Maker.

I've seen many men die right in front of me - so many in fact that I've become almost hardened to it. Having seen the worst that human beings can do to each other, the results of torture, mutilation and seeing someone blown to pieces by a bomb, you develop a kind of shell. But you had to. You had to. Otherwise, we would never have won.

I simply cannot stand by and watch a right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States come under attack from those who either can't understand it, don't like the sound of it, or find themselves too philosophically squeamish to see why it remains the first among equals: Because it is the right we turn to when all else fails. That's why the Second Amendment is America's first freedom.

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.

I’m a Southern girl. I like when they open the door and pull out a chair. I’m really into a man’s man.

Disappointment is just the action of your brain readjusting itself to reality after discovering things are not the way you thought they were.

If gay marriage was OK ... then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men; or indeed three men and a dog.

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

Let no man surrender so long as he is unwounded and can fight.

In the measurement world, we set a goal and strive to achieve it. In the universe of possibility, we set the context and let life unfold.