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Quotes About Men

There is still a tendency to regard any existing government intervention as desirable, to attribute all evils to the market, and to evaluate new proposals for government control in their ideal form, as they might work if run by able, disinterested men free from the pressure of special interest groups.
~ Milton Friedman
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greater dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." —Justice Louis Brandeis
~ Milton Friedman
I love the fact British men act cool whatever the situation so I'm planning to recruit there.
~ Sharon Stone
I'm before him on my knees, and he kisses me He assumes I lose my reason and I do. Men are stupid, men are vain, Love's disgusting, love's insane, A humiliating business-oh how true.
~ Stephen Sondheim
I love men, the restlessness of their corrupted souls, the way they hide their heavy, murderous hearts, their sudden delicacies and small shocking acts of tenderness.
~ Steve Almond
I was fortunate to love men, so I could put them on stage and make roles for them, and move through their bodies in a way that they enjoy doing...
~ Twyla Tharp
In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layer of frailty men want to be good and want be loved. Indeed most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love.
~ John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love.
~ Walter Scott
You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.
~ Marguerite Duras
I never understood how men could remember all those details about sports but, yet, were incapable of remembering where they set their car keys or wallet.
~ Tina Reber, Love Unscripted
First impressions are rarely worth preserving. Men typically fall short of our expectations.
~ Renate Linnenkoper, Exogenesis
That wish - that prayer - both men and women would have scorned me for - "But, Father, Thou wilt not despise!" I said, and felt that it was true.
~ Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
Here was the love and violence in the hearts of men, all for their women
~ Hugh Howey, Shift
Es una desgracia que no se pueda confiar en los hombres, a menos que se les esté vigilando.
~ Bram Stoker
there is hardly a foot of soil in all this region that has not been enriched by the blood of men, patriots or invaders.
~ Bram Stoker
Oh, Madam Mina, good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read; and we men who wish to know have in us something of angels' eyes.
~ Bram Stoker
The answer warmed the hearts of both the old men, but, with the usual avoidance of Englishmen of emotional subjects personal to themselves, they instinctively returned to the previous question.
~ Bram Stoker
No mythology or religion that I know of holds all the answers. Most religions are based on truths, but they are also polluted by the philosophies and imaginations of men.
~ Brandon Mull
The men in King Cobra have already worked through whatever issues they might have had about their sexuality, and they have other problems to deal with, and there's an actual plot that isn't about being gay—it's just a crime drama.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
to men, the protectors of the kingdom in a time of war. The discipline required to master it provides one of the pathways for men to find inner peace, strength of character, and self-respect. It cannot be practiced by a woman. Doing so would only lead her down a path that is not compatible with her true nature and place in the spiritual world. You do not need kung fu to find your place in the world.
~ Brian Edwards
An empire built on power cannot attract the affections and loyalty that men bestow willingly on a regime of ideas and beauty. Adorn your Grand Empire with beauty, with culture.
~ Brian Herbert
There are those who see influence and power as a reward rather than a responsibility. Such men do not make good leaders. —DIRECTEUR JOSEF VENPORT, internal Venport Holdings memo
~ Brian Herbert
It is not easy for some men to know they have done evil, for reasoning and honor are often clouded by pride.
~ Brian Herbert
From my very first day, I was pursued by men. All of them tried to hurt me, but only one managed to break my heart.
~ Brian K. Vaughan