Quotes About Men

If I were like Lionel, I would write a book: Obvious Lies, Bad Advice, and Wrong Information I've Gotten from Men. A book? An encyclopedia! But in this case my friend was right.

Margot used to like describing men as 'my unhappy love affair.' But hadn't that presumed the existence of a happy love affair that made the others unimportant? What is unhappy is the only kind Margo ever has?

I'm going to give you God's truth, little girl. All men want to do is hurt you. Once you give them your heart, they tear it to shreds. ~Francine Rivers; Redeeming Love

He was writing on men's hearts through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. But few listened. Few leaned in and sought out God's will for their lives.

Men were fickle, especially when they had positions of power, and she hadn't expected affair to last long.-Rahab

All men want peace but, as St. Augustine remarked, they want it on their own terms; hence the prevalence of wars. It is doubtful if anyone ever brought about peace simply by being for it or prevented war by being against war as such. On the contrary, turning peace into a political slogan may help to bring on a war.

Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.

Men and their works have been a disease on the surface of their planets [...] Nature tends to compensate for diseases, to remove or encapsulate them, to incorporate them into the system in her own way.

There are proven ways to win the loyalty of tough, strong, ferocious men: play on the certain knowledge of their superiority, the mystique of secret covenant, the esprit of shared suffering.

Do you want me to say that men create gods to enforce their definitions of good and evil?

Men looked at their gods and their rituals and saw that both were filled with that most terrible of all equations: fear over ambition.

They've also sent some incidental things—jewelry for the Lady Jessica, spice liquor, candy, medicinals. My men are processing the lot right now.

Principles," he said, "are what you fight for. Most men go through a lifetime unchallenged, except at the final moment. They have so few unfriendly arenas in which to test themselves.

I come only to ask a simple question. Is Muad'Dib's death to be followed by the moral suicide of all men? Is that the inevitable aftermath of a Messiah?

Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

Hubo un tiempo en que los hombres dedicaban su pensamiento a las máquinas, con la esperanza de que ellas les harían libres. Pero esto solo permitió que otros hombres con máquinas les esclavizaran.

Government and religion united, and breaking a law became sin. A smell of blasphemy arose like smoke around any questioning of governmental edicts. The guilt of rebellion invoked hellfire and self-righteous judgments. Yet it was men who created these governmental edicts.

Un tempo gli uomini dedicavano il proprio pensiero alle macchine, nella speranza che esse li avrebbero liberati. Ma questo consentì ad altri uomini di servirsi delle macchine per renderli schiavi.

The creature all men on Arrakis fear, you treat it like a riding animal.

Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make sense out of God's universe.

What is this solution?' asked Sparrow. 'The breakdowns are a rejection of birth by men who have unconsciously retreated into the world of prebirth. What child would seek birth if he knew that pain and fear – a constant menace – awaited him on the other

The boat spelled enveloping safety, a return to the womb. But when the men came ashore, that was birth: exposure. The sky's a hideous thing to men who want to hide from it.' Dr

Hubo un tiempo en que los hombres solo prestaban atención a las máquinas, con la esperanza de que ellas les hicieran libres. Pero esto solo permitió que otros hombres con máquinas los esclavizaran

She said a ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel. She said he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men.