Quotes About Men

There was no reason to feel pressure, but I felt it anyway -- the pressure of hot air and passing time, an idle tension that builds up in places where men sweat twenty-four hours a day.

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side. --Hunter S. Thompson

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.

Emerson argued that "the whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible, and they are. They want awakening, [and for that purpose they need teachers] to get the soul out of bed, out of her deep habitual sleep." That

A]ll business for us men on earth is based on material things -- so we've just got to work hard and share the fruits of our labors with one another.

He was one of those men ... who know in their hearts that for all their edgy, belligerent hardness they are just unhappy kids, emotional retards.

To teach men that they possess the ability to turn from sin when they choose to do so is to hide the true extent of their need.

The expository preacher is not one who 'shares his studies' with others, he is an ambassador and a messenger authoritatively delivering the Word of God to men.

For men are held above their fellows by the gossamer of reputation, which is so soft and fragile a breath can blow it away.

men had turned their minds to the passion of faction, and learned to despise the old wisdom because they could not read it afresh.

Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment.

So,' continued Bond, warming to his argument, 'Le Chiffre was serving a wonderful purpose, a really vital purpose, perhaps the best and highest purpose of all. By his evil existence, which foolishly I have helped to destroy, he was creating a norm of badness by which, and by which alone, an opposite norm of goodness could exist. We were privileged, in our short knowledge of him, to see and estimate his wickedness and we emerge from the acquaintanceship better and more virtuous men.

the moustaches on the men were just a lot of moustaches.

Ir ?oti skumji mazg?t ve­Ã"¼u, ja taj? nav neviena vÄ«rieÅ¡a krekla.

Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment. She

What was it with men, that they found elementary logic so difficult?

There was something fascinating about tall thin men, the way their bones and Adam's apple lurked so unconcealed beneath the skin, their birdlike faces, their predatory stoop.

Past a certain age, men froze into place; they tended to believe that, even in adversity, they were somehow at one with their fates. They were who they thought they were.

J'aurais dû traverser l'existence avec ce privilège que donne la beauté, de pouvoir prendre les hommes et les jeter. Au lieu de quoi c'étaient eux qui m'abandonnaient ou mouraient. Ou bien se mariaient.

These clever, amoral, inventive, destructive men, single-minded, selfish, emotionally cool, coolly attractive. I think I preferred them to the love of Jesus.

what had once been men." As in the Philippines and Malaya, the initial Japanese airstrikes had come quickly, over a shockingly long range, and were conducted much more skillfully than the Allied airmen had expected.

Mahan's dictum that good men and bad ships make a better navy than bad men and good ships was always near Nimitz's thoughts.

However ghostly it seems, you sense solidity through the soles of your shoes and know yourself to be a part of something big and strong;" wrote Dickinson; "a thousand other men and more, great guns, a powder magazine, an electric power plant that could run a city, a machine shop, beds and kitchens; all of this is compactly organized inside a vast steel hull, your planet.

The first rule of etiquette a boy learns when he's about to enter society is that civility is due to all women. No provocation, no matter how unjust and rudely delivered, can validate a man who fails to treat a woman with anything less than utmost courtesy. The boys hung on his every word. He glanced in her direction. I have met some incredibly unpleasant women, and I have never failed in this duty. But I must admit: your sister may prove my undoing.