Quotes About Men

Alas! that was the greatest of sacrifices, the most poignant of victories, the final step to be taken, but he must do it. Mournful destiny! he could only enter into the sanctity in the eyes of God, by returning into infamy in the eyes of men!

Another said , I don't ask six months, I don't ask two. In less than two weeks we'll meet the government face to face. With twenty-five thousand men we can make our stand.

diocese. True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

He was at that period of life when the mind of men who think is composed, in nearly equal parts, of depth and ingenuousness. A grave situation being given, he had all that is required to be stupid: one more turn of the key, and he might be sublime.

True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do. M.

Death belongs only to God. What right have men to lay hands on a thing so unknown?

All generous social irradiations spring from science, letters, arts, education. Make men, make men. Give them light that they may warm you. Sooner or later the splendid question of universal education will present itself with the irresistible authority of the absolute truth; and

The cities make ferocious men because they make corrupt men. The mountain, the sea, the forest, make savage men; they develop the fierce side, but often without destroying the humane side.

Death belongs only to God. By what right to men tamper with a thing so unknowable?

In the moment when the eyes of the two men met, Javert, without having moved or made the least gesture, became hideous. No human emotion can wear an aspect so terrible as that of jubilation. He had the face of a fiend who has found the victim he thought he had lost.

Every time that the wind blows it bears with it more of the dreams of men than of the clouds of heaven.

Por desgracia Dios les da aire a los hombres, pero la ley de lo vende. No acuso a la ley pero bendigo a Dios

The men of yesterday are spectres; those of to-morrow are forms. The eye of the spirit distinguishes them but obscurely. The embryonic work of the future is one of the visions of philosophy.

for men felt therein the presence of that great human thing which is called law, and that great divine thing which is called justice.

Lo que de los hombres se dice, verdadero o falso, ocupa tanto lugar en su destino, y sobre todo en su vida, como lo que hacen. El

As cidades, tal como as florestas, têm os seus antros onde se oculta tudo o que têm de pior e de mais temível. A única diferença é que, nas cidades, o que se esconde assim é feroz, imundo e pequeno, ou seja, feio; nas florestas, o que se esconde é feroz, selvagem e grande, ou seja, belo. Tocas por tocas, as dos animais são preferíveis às dos homens, As cavernas valem mais do que as pocilgas

Although this detail has no connection whatever with the real substance of what we are about to relate, it will not be superfluous, if merely for the sake of exactness in all points, to mention here the various rumors and remarks which had been in circulation about him from the very moment when he arrived in the diocese. True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and

I don't have a good history with men." "You know the thing about history, Elsa? It's over. Already dead and gone." "They say people who don't heed history are doomed to repeat it.

A generation of men were going off to war. Again. Don't think about it, Vianne told herself. Don't remember what it was like last time when the men limped home, faces burned, missing arms and legs...

A kiss?" She repeated it to stall for time. This was the sort of thing that she'd taken for granted before the war. Men desired her; they always had. She wanted that back, wanted to flirt with Henri and be flirted with, and yet the very idea of it felt sad and a little lost, as if perhaps kisses didn't mean much anymore and flirtation even less.

You don't reason with men like Hitler.

Women were integral to the Resistance. Why couldn't men see that?

She gave him a pointed look. Did people say things like this to men? Women were integral to the Resistance. Why couldn't men see that? He