Quotes About Men

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted shortcuts to love...We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil.

Yes, but the bank is only made of men. No, you're wrong there—quite wrong there. The bank is something else than men. It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it. The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it. The

But whereas most men in their search for contentment destroy themselves and fall wearily short of their targets, Mack and his friends approached contentment casually, quietly, and absorbed it gently.

Surely most men are destroyed, but there are others who like pillars of fire guide frightened men through the darkness.

The essence of pearl mixed with essence of men and a curious dark residue was precipitated.

During the years he was never sick, except of course for the chronic indigestion which was universal, and still is, with men who live alone, cook for themselves, and eat in solitude.

The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.

I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage.

In their lapels the insignia of lodges and service clubs, places where they can go and, by a weight of numbers of little worried men, reassure themselves that business is noble and not the curious ritualized thievery they know it is;

I understand that you are offered a loveliness and you vomit on it, that you have the gift of love given you such as few men have ever known and you throw on it the acid of your pride, your ugly twisted sense of importance.

Over and over I thought we lack the pressures that make men strong and the anguish that makes men great. The pressures are debts, the desires are for more material toys and the anguish is boredom. Through time, the nation has become a discontented land.

Maybe the knowledge is too great and maybe men are growing too small," said Lee. "Maybe, kneeling down to atoms, they're becoming atomsized in their souls. Maybe a specialist is only a coward, afraid to look out of his little cage. And think what any specialist misses—the whole world over his fence.

Such things have disappeared perhaps because men do not trust themselves any more, and when that happens there is nothing left except perhaps to find some strong sure man, even though he may be wrong, and to dangle from his coattails.

Mice and Men is a compact and, in its origin, a highly personal response to the powerlessness of the California laboring class

a haunted little man of figures, a little man who, being a dependable unit, considered all other men either as dependable units or as unfit to live.

He was an arithmetician rather than a mathematician. None of the humor, the music, or the mysticism of higher mathematics ever entered his head. Men might vary in height or weight or color, just as 6 is different from 8, but there was little other difference.

She didn't understand stags or what satisfaction the men got out of them, but there they were, and she made fifty dollars for taking off her clothes and that was better than having them torn off in an office.

A woman who knows all about men usually knows one part very well and can't conceive the other parts, but that doesn't mean they aren't there.

The clangor of the body shop comes up softly. It's noise comforts him, tells him he is hidden and safe, that while he hides men are busy nailing the world down, and toward the disembodied sounds his heart makes in darkness a motion of love.

Women in the scriptures were not systematically ignored any more than the majority of men were; they simply wielded their influence in a more intimate, less visible sphere.

I love kit. Every project I have ever undertaken has required the purchasing of all the best kit I can afford and think of. For many people -- especially, dare I say it, men -- kit is all you need.

After he was assassinated, his family and the men who had served him continued the lying and began the destruction, censoring and hiding of JFK's medical records.

I always loved clothes. I grew up in a blue-collar family, but I loved old movies and seeing all those dashing leading men.