Quotes About Men

All men had their limitations. It was just that some were more dangerous than others. And while genius knew it had limits, idiocy was always unbounded.

How difficult would it be for these men who had risked their lives to adapt to something

He checked their work, and they checked his, for caution and thoroughness was the mark of such men.

Timbuktu. The last pure place. Isolation being the mother of purity. All men are jealous of Timbuktu because Timbuktu is removed from men, it's the wholeness men have fractured, the sacred extreme they've traded away.

How can men be such lummoxes, such wads of chewing gum on our ballet slippers and still feel so good?

Beer can lead men to think they're mighty and foul-mouthed women to believe themselves amusing and hip.

Now, in the eyes of the stars, men may be no more exalted than beasts, and kingly men no worthier than the wretched.

If he's like a lot of men, he'd rather be a murderer than a fool.

SOUTH RICHMOND was a neighborhood of mouse holes, lace curtains, Sears catalogs, measles epidemics, baloney sandwiches—and men who knew more about the carburetor than they knew about the clitoris.

I realize that you've always avoided all but the most rudimentary involvements with men, and, I might add, you've been wise.

So nowadays hard-minded men with hard muscles and hard hats are relieved from their jobs

Alice thought, No. It wasn't the War and the disgruntled veterans; it wasn't the droves and droves of colored people flocking to paychecks and streets full of themselves. It was the music. The dirty, get-on-down music the women sang and the men played and both danced to, close and shamelesss or apart and wild...It made you do unwise disorderly things. Just hearing it was like violating the law.

Nuns go by as quiet as lust, and drunken men with sober eyes sing in the lobby of the Greek hotel.

Don't mistake the fathers' thanks, Fairy had warned her. Men scared of us, always will be. To them we're death's handmaiden standing as between them and the children their wives carry. During those times, Fairy said, the midwife is the interference, the one giving orders, on whose secret skill so much depended, and the dependency irritated them. Especially here in this place where they had come to multiply in peace.

Janie had robbed him of his illusion of irresistible maleness that all men cherish, which was terrible. The thing that Saul's daughter had done to David. But Janie had done worse...

Wherever he was—on the porch, at the kitchen table, in the garden, in the living room reading—that's where the power and deference were. He didn't exert power; he assumed it. And it was in part from knowing him that I felt I could understand and create the men in Ruby—their easy assumption of uncontested authority.

One of the things that we, as men, have often missed in the church in multiple ways is both experiencing and displaying God's power and blessings collectively. With

When men begin to function in their homes, accountable to the guidance and direction of a leader in the church, things change.

This is not a time for secret-agent Christians or covert Jesus operatives. We need kingdom men who will step up and change the world.

many men have come to view the church as a task to be done rather than a community to be in.

It's about becoming men of character, commitment, power, and influence for Jesus Christ.

Christian leaders have leveraged our men to build church buildings and run church programs, but we have failed to disciple them in what it means to be about the kingdom. Nothing is wrong with church buildings—as long as those within it aim to use the available resources strategically to advance God's kingdom.

Even though a man's involvement with the church is so critical, it seems that in most churches, men are not taking an active role in any men's ministry or in transferring a kingdom worldview. What

This may sound sexist,' Joslyn said, 'but my theory is that men like the Civil War because it's an action story, they're caught up in the battlefield drama. The prisoners are an emotional side of the War. Women are attracted to all that raw feeling, we understand it better....