Quotes About Men

Activity becomes process. Choices become destiny. Men then live in the world they themselves have made as if they were fated to do so by powers that are quite independent of their own world-constructing enterprises.

I have since learned never to trust men with combovers. They have absolutely no judgement.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly found, given and transmitted from the past.

He didn't say anything else but felt pressure from inside from the sight he saw there—the girl on the table who acted as if she were not there, the men in the room, and things like ropes and wires, the most delicate parts of which they were made. And Remal trades in this. I drop out of a box, thin-skinned like a maggot, and a cold bastard like Remal, moving the ropes and wires inside his anatomy, steps on me.

I don't know what to say to that, but I have to agree with Johnny that, yeah, we do touch upon things that most men would rather not admit: That we feel pain, we cry, get sad and sometimes don't deal well with disappointment.

However when a given act becomes instituted in the culture to the exclusion of other acts we are then dealing with a hegemonic custom — i.e. such is the relationship custom of elevating women to the position of men's social, moral or spiritual superiors.

To have displeased evil and ignorant men is the sure sign of genius and virtue...

When you compare the changing room to last season, there is a massive, massive difference. The changing room now is full of men.

Are you all right, Lady?" Agatha looked up. "I guess. I just wonder how many other girls have to worry about whether or not it's smart to really trust their . . . you know, the guys they—" Lady Vitriox crossed her arms. "All of them," she said flatly. "But mine has an army!" The old woman shook her head. "They all do, my Lady. It consists of other men.

One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.

These men were not selected by a jury of fellow artists, but appointed by the sovereign and electing choice of God.

I love men, I love books, I can't get enough of them.

To die outside a rejecting society, but with men one loved, seemed a fitting end in a time of apocalypse.

may have marched to war to ragtime tunes, but few troops could have suspected that among their ranks were men with ballgowns packed in their kitbags

Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.

The worst men often give the best advice.

I love thee, London! for thy many men, And for thy mighty deeds and scenes of glory.

corridor that smelt strongly of misery, which, as anyone will tell you, is a subtle mixture of hope, despair, rancid cooking fat and men's piss.

that smelled strongly of misery, which, as anyone will tell you, is a subtle mixture of hope, despair, rancid cooking fat, and men's piss.

Crimes are committed when men take an idea that seems like a good idea and then can't think of good enough reasons why it might not be a good idea.

Never such innocence, Never before or since, As changed itself to past Without a word--the men Leaving the gardens tidy, The thousands of marriages Lasting a little while longer: Never such innocence again.

Men whose first coronary is coming like Christmas; who drift, loaded helplessly with commitments and obligations and necessary observances, into the darkening avenues of age and incapacity, deserted by everything that once made life sweet. These I have tried to remind of the excitement of jazz and tell where it may still be found.

The idea of universal history presupposes the Christian idea of the unity of God, and the unity and common destiny of men, and was unknown to ancient Greece and Rome.

The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.