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Quotes About Men

The desert was always there, a patient white animal, waiting for men to die, for civilizations to flicker and pass into the darkness.
~ John Fante
Set your expectations high find men and women whose integrity and values you respect get their agreement on a course of action and give them your ultimate trust.
~ John Fellows Akers
But I wasn't happy... when I heard you two had assaulted Castle Macindaw with just thirty men,' [said Halt]. 'Thirty-three,' mumbled Horace... The Ranger gave him a withering look. 'Oh, pardon me... three more men does make a lot of difference.
~ John Flanagan
What the devil is Chocho?' Will whispered. Horace's grin broadened. 'You are. It's what the men call you,' he said. Then he added, 'It's a term of great respect.' Behind them, Halt nodded confirmation. 'Great respect,' he agreed.
~ John Flanagan
A Ranger carries the lives of two dozen men with him, the old saying went. Edwina thought then that John Buttle might need to watch his
~ John Flanagan
The air was full of the rasping sound of half a dozen men snoring. Occasionally someone coughed, then resumed the snoring again. As they listened, someone let go a long and resounding fart. "Delightful people," murmured Berwick.
~ John Flanagan
Ranger carries the lives of two dozen men with him, the old saying went.
~ John Flanagan
England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.
~ John Florio
I sought Ben Affleck because I needed an everyman for this role. Ben appeals to men and women. He gives you a sense of intelligence, the notion of a guy who can think on his feet.
~ John Frankenheimer
How could men get fat by being bad and starve by being good? I thought and thought about my vision, and it made me very sad.
~ John G Neihardt
Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
~ John Galsworthy
but you - women like you are dangerous- ominous – take care, Love – men will first fear you, then later, turn you into a deity...
~ John Geddes
If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out?
~ John Godfrey Saxe
One waxes pessimistic? Not so much Ã¢â'¬Â¦ There is a pessimism about land which, after it has been with you a long time, becomes merely factual. Men increase; country suffers. Though I sign up with organizations that oppose the process, I sign without great hope.… Islands of wildlife and native flora may be saved, as they should be, but the big, sloppy, rich, teeming spraddle will go. It always has.
~ John Graves
Men are motivated when they feel needed while women are motivated when they feel cherished.
~ John Gray
The age is dull and mean. Men creep,Not walk.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received.
~ John Grierson
We now had three girls and one testosterone-pumped guy bird that spent every walking minute doing of of three things: pursuing sex, having sex or crowing boastfully about the sex he had just scored. Jenny observed that roosters are what men would be if left to their own devices, with no social conventions to rein in their baser instincts, and I couldn't disagree. I had to admit, I kind of admired the lucky bastard.
~ John Grogan
Existence nullified by men; reaffirmed by nature.
~ John Howard Griffin
To live in a world where men do not love, where they cheat and are callous, is to sink into a preoccupation with death, and to see the futility of anything except virtue.
~ John Howard Griffin
God! he swore silently. That man was ever born to be torn and troubled by women!
~ John Jakes
At Lavenham in Suffolk, ten thousand men planned to converge in active protest; it was said that they failed only because the clappers had been removed from the church bells that were to signal the start of the uprising.
~ John Julius Norwich
Lugares impersonales para hombres y mujeres que ganan dinero y lo gastan con la mayor rapidez posible y que piensan que, de algun modo, eso tiene sentido.
~ John Katzenbach
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion - I have shudder'd at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion Love is my religion And I could die for that. I could die for you.
~ John Keats