Quotes About Men

As when a window is opened a whiff of fresh air from the fields enters a stuffy room, so a whiff of youthfulness, energy, and confidence of success reached Kutuzov's cheerless staff with the galloping advent of all these brilliant young men.

I know how men like Stiva look at it. You speak of his talking of you with her. That never happened. Such men are unfaithful, but their home and wife are sacred to them. Somehow or other these women are still looked on with contempt by them, and do not touch on their feeling for their family. They draw a sort of line that can't be crossed between them and their families. I don't understand it, but it is so.

The less importance he attached to the opinion of men, the more did he feel the presence of God within him.

It is pride that makes error and discord among men.

At the men's end of the table the talk grew more and more animated. The colonel told them that the declaration of war had already appeared in Petersburg and that a copy, which he had himself seen, had that day been forwarded by courier to the commander in chief.

The men of this party had both the quality and the defect of frankness in their opinions.

Submission to the law created by men makes one a slave; obedience to the law created by God makes one free.

But the liveliest attention was attracted by occurrences quite apart from, and unconnected with, the battle. It was as if the minds of these morally exhausted men found relief in everyday, commonplace occurrences.

No one is thinking of war; only milliards are being spent upon preparations for it, and millions of men are under arms in France and Russia.

It is only possible to capture prisoners if they agree to be captured, just as it is only possible to catch a swallow if it settles on one's hand. Men can only be taken prisoners if they surrender according to the rules of strategy and tactics, as the Germans did.

He, moreover, did not, as Socrates did, transmit His teaching to informed and literate men, but spoke to a crowd of illiterate men

Only by assuming an infinitesimally small unit for observation - a differential of history (that is, the common tendencies of men) - and arriving at the art of integration (finding the sum of the infinitesimals) can we hope to discover the laws of history.

The Bell: "The storm is approaching, it is impossible to be mistaken about that. The Revolutionaries and Reactionaries are at one about that. All men's heads are going round; a weighty question of life and death lies heavy on men's heads.

if there are as many minds as there are men, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

There are men who call land theirs, yet have never set eyes on that land and have never trodden it. There are men who call other men theirs, but yet have never set eyes on the other men, and their sole relation to those other men consists of doing them evil.

wonder at the short-sightedness of men who seek enjoyment and happiness here on earth: toiling, suffering, struggling, and harming one another, to obtain that impossible, visionary, sinful happiness.

I think ... if there are as many minds as there are men, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

Solo saldremos de esta decadencia con una inmensa rectificación moral, volviendo a enseñar a los hombres a amar, a sacrificarse, a vivir, a luchar y a morir por un ideal superior

The ground before the castle had grown a crop of armed men.

The ground before the castle has grown a crop of armed men.

Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.

Sexuality is general, and although only one man may be receiving the favors of a woman, all men in her presence are warm. That's the great generosity of women and the great generosity of the creator who worked it out that way, that there are no unilateral agreements of sexuality.

Establish your law in this walled place. Let nine men come to lift me into their prayer so that I may whisper with them: Blessed be the name of the glory of the kingdom forever and forever.

Madness, you say? Exactly! A sober church never does any good. At this hour we need men drunk with the Holy Ghost.