Quotes About Men

It was one of the games we were allowed to play. Golf was another one because it consisted of using a rod to hit something much, much smaller than yourself and a lot of men in this town enjoyed that sort of thing.

War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things they did. Sometimes they just wanted to forget.

War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too.

The truth was, they had not kept in touch. War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things they did. Sometimes they just wanted to forget.

lest her fairness encourage the bad desires of men. Humility became Alli's cocoon

didnt men ever think about anything that really mattered?

Glaring is something we men of Lahore take seriously...

They are pursued by a pair of hawk-faced men dressed in black and white: both forbidding, both hungry, but one tall and slender, the other short and fat. Two reflections of the same soul in the cosmic house of mirrors, or uncanny coincidence? It is impossible to say.

Young men pray for different things, of course, but some young men pray to honour the goodness of the men who raised them, and Saeed was very much a young man of this mould.

At that time many of the men looked like Rupert Brooke, whose portrait still hung in everyone's imagination.

But only in their dreams can men be truly free. 'Twas always, and always thus will be.

Pour les hommes, la mutation politique la plus profonde a sans aucun doute été l'hétérosocialité qui signifie, sinon l'émancipation des femmes, leur sortie de la maison et leur accès à la rue, au monde.

They needn't have worried. Three hundred men, it turned out, were not enough to massacre a man like Bussy.* The assassination attempt had not only failed, it backfired completely by adding to the warrior's renown.

Men commit injuries either through fear or through hate.

Women are divided into two categories: those who can deal with the men they are in love with, and those who cannot. Sophia was one of those who can.

Chance Duv knows! She spoke lightly. Folk have always told me that the night is full of all manner of evil. Ay, even so, Bevan said heavily, but it is the same evil that is in the day—evil of men. Look there!

Droughts and floods create all kinds of business opportunities besides a growing demand for men with guns.

The women looked from one to the other, knowing what the men didn't know. We knew the heartbeat and interior graces, compensation for our own clumsiness; the beatitude as we renounced our bodies, our noble little parasites the higher calling. We knew, without saying, the watery rollover, tremor, seismic shudders, the steadiness of the baby's hiccups, the reliable stab from a kick to the kidney

However, I must disagree with you very strongly that providing ordinary and reasonable care in any way constitutes coddling, and I have always found that deprivation and hardship, when necessary, can be better endured by men who have not been subjected to them previously for no cause.

Dragon intelligence was a mystery to men who made a study of the subject; he had no idea how much the dragon would hear or understand, but thought it better to avoid the risk of giving offense.

The power in the Wood isn't some blind hating beast; it can think and plan, and work towards its own ends. It can see into the hearts of men, all the better to poison them.

rounded shoulders, the shoulders of women no one has touched for a long time. Men

When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera of the airbrushed centerfold, always receding before him, keeps the man destabilized in pursuit, unable to focus on the beauty of the woman--known, marked, lined, familiar—-who hands him the paper every morning.

The beauty myth is not about women at all. It is about men's institutions and institutional power.