Quotes About Men

The silence lingers and we soak it up like a good steam. Men like silence. We believe in it. We crave it. To us, silence is equal to peace and synonymous with quiet. Thus the common gender-specific phrase uttered by men in homes throughout the world, usually in the evening and on weekends: "Can I please get some peace and quiet, please?

Livin' out here has changed a lot of things. Suspend the conventions of eastern life. That's probably why you like it so much, Hank. Women plowing land and pannin' for gold. Men sewin' up their own britches, cookin' for themselves. That's well an' find. It's good for the people an' good for the country. But too much? No, sir. Without women an' marriage, wed' all be shot or drunk ourselves to death or died of the clap. No, sir. - Prentice Ritter

He glanced curiously at the men who fed the lusting blades. They could not but be changed, he thought, they must partake of that feeling to some extent: become potential destroyers, or self-destroyers.

God's will is for all men to be delivered, to be rescued from death, to be saved, and to have an abundant, joyful life with Him for eternity.

I prefer solitude to companions, since there are so few men who are trustworthy, and almost none truly learned. I do not say this because I demand scholarship in all men—although the sum total of men's learning is small enough; but I question whether we should allow anyone to waste our time. The wasting of time is an abomination.

When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

If there was a lesson to be taken from history, it was that men lived but never learned from

But leaders need to be mostly dead. People want solid monuments to cling to, not confused men like themselves.

I got married when I was 24 and met my husband when I was 22, so what I know about men in a personal experience could literally fill an index card.

When I joined the industry there were mafia like Haji Mastan and Vardharajan. They had a healthy relationship with film stars. Their men never came calling for 'petis' and 'khokas.' In fact they used to felicitate film personalities.

Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father!

Healing and miracles have been a mystery to men of all times. To some, the phenomenon is frightening, while others find it exhilarating.

On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.

One aspect of the male that women find hard to understand is his obsession with electronic gadgets such as mobile phones, tiddly televisions, computers and combined answerphone-fax machines.

I often say television is not a job for grown men. You go to a set, they pick out your clothes for you, they tell you where to stand, what to say, and your chair has your name on it in case you can't find a place to sit.

I'm very picky when it comes to men. I come across a man who I'm really attracted to about once every five years.

Jefferson Pierce is the epitome of what black men are: He loves his wife, his children, and the community.

Men from my generation are chauvinist pigs!

Pioneer women were very tough - they had to be, because the men go off for long periods of time, and the women would have to be able to protect themselves and their homes.

When you hear the party that glorified Occupy Wall Street blast success; when you hear them minimize the genius of the men and women who make jobs out of nothing, is that what you teach your children about work?

My impression of Wall Street growing up was certainly that it was like the big, bad place where all of the men did the bad things with our money.

The story of the Alamo has touched many more people than one would think. So, I would like to pay my respects to those men on both sides of the walls in those months of February and March 1836.

I see guys with, like, eyebrow art, and I wanna tell them, 'You don't have to go too crazy on your brows. Take it easy, man!'

The British boys really, really go nuts... to them, an older woman is sexy, and it's an incredible fantasy... I think the American fantasy is still about men wanting control. Maybe American men don't feel as in control of their lives.