Quotes About Men

Mead stresses the universality of male competition, stating that "in every known human society, the male's need for achievement can be recognized." Men, to feel fulfilled and successful, need to excel at something—to be better at it than other men and better than women.13

There is in fact no data demonstrating that men are more hierarchical than women. The only difference one study reported is that when people are put together in same-gender groups, men settle on a rank order more quickly than women. Women do eventually always form one, however.

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled that are rare. What is so difficult to achieve is the cultural background that permits potential greatness to be converted into actual greatness.

The universe is bad; and men are fools, never really all on the same side in any war.

As a science, I should say that chart reading shares a pedestal with astrology; but most chart readers are educated men and have too much mental discipline to take astrology seriously.

No, Joss no confiaría en las cosas por nada en el mundo, como tampoco confiaba en los hombres ni en la mar. Las primeras os roban la razón, los segundos, el alma y la tercera, la vida.

men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work.

Unlike some men, I had never drunk for boldness or charm or wit; I had used alcohol for precisely what it was, a depressant to check the mental exhilaration produced by extended sobriety.

Los proyectos mejor urdidos por ratones y por hombres, como el poeta escocés podría haber dicho, terminan a veces pareciéndose a la merienda de un perro chiflado. El

There are some men whose crimes surpass comprehension and therefore forgiveness, and here is the real failure. For they are still among us

This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.

There is no perfect marriage, for there are no perfect men

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

Mars is opening up. It's a frontier now, like in the old days on Earth, out West, and in Alaska. Men are pouring up here. There's a couple thousand black Irish mechanics and miners and day laborers in First Town who need saving, because there're too many wicked women came with them, and too much ten-century-old Martian wine.

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do.

Authority doesn't come from a rank.," Kaladin said, fingering the spheres in his pocket. "Where does it come from?" "From the men who give it to you. That's the only way to get it.

He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That was how he proved to the Lord Ruler-and to himself-that he wasn't beaten.

What you did tonight was clever," Wit said. "You turned an attack into a promise. The wisest of men know that to render an insult powerless, you often need only to embrace it.

Men are more resilient than that, I think. Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.

Men like you preach change, but I wonder. Is this a battle we can really fight?" "You're fighting it already, Goodman Mennis. You're just losing horribly.

He clutched to these names, repeating each one in his head, holding them like precious gemstones. The names mattered. The men mattered. Perhaps Kaladin would die in the next bridge run, or perhaps he would break under the strain, and give Amaram one final victory. But as he settled down on the ground to plan, he felt that tiny warmth burning steadily within him. It was the warmth of decisions made and purpose seized. It was responsibility.