Quotes About Men

That the flesh and the spirit are one in love is none of the business of the celibate men of God, especially those who believe they rule the province of love.

But men are such strange creatures, really. I think most of them would rather we weren't around at all, so they could just spend time mooning over each other. Hero worship and all that stuff.

All men did have darkness. Some wore it in the form of horns. Some bore it invisibly as rot in their souls.

Malgus knew it was folly. Empires and the men who ruled empires could not stay sharp when surrounded by comfort, by peace.

It was extraordinary, Ahmed thought, how men distinguished in one field – and he assumed that Pandit Baba Sahib was distinguished – seemed to claim for themselves wisdom in all spheres of human activity; wisdom and the right to make pronouncements which they expected you to listen to and learn from.

The good which proceeds from a false basis (and such a case can happen in times of upheaval) is a very real evil for the entire society. It encourages the factious, not in this respect, that they search for the good, but rather because the deceitful appeal of that good delivers over to them virtuous men and makes them their accomplices.

I wondered who the sky men had been, who came to destroy and kill those in the cities, and what bad thing had happened to them to make them worship death.

It was possible that all men were difficult to read, but I had to live with Jock through every long

I learned most of my Swahili there, more and more eager for stories…how the hyena had got his limp and the chameleon his patience. How the wind and rain had once been men before they failed at some important task and were banished to the heavens.

Don't spend your strength on women." Even great men are destroyed this way. A man who gives his heart to God first will be able to love and serve a woman without being dependent on her. He is standing on his own two feet because he knows what it is to bow his knee and his will before God.

Retirement is lie sex. Men love to talk about it, but when the time finally comes, they're good for about fifteen minutes then they're dying to put their ties back on.

Retirement is like sex. Men love to talk about it but when the time finally comes they're good for about fifteen minutes then they're dying to put their tie back on.

More than ever knowing in his fragile bones that it was the duty of men who aspired to the condition of humanity to protect children and kill for them if necessary. It comes to a person most clearly when he has daughters.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

Liberation is a praxis : the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it.

Dialogue cannot exist without humility. The naming of the world, through which people constantly re-create that world, cannot be an act of arrogance....Men and women who lack humility (or have lost it) cannot come to the people, cannot be their partners in naming the world.

Sólo existe saber en la invención, en la reinvención, en la búsqueda inquieta, impaciente, permanente que los hombres realizan en el mundo, con el mundo y con otros.

O diálogo é o encontro dos homens para Ser Mais

In cultural invasion, both the spectators and the reality to be preserved are objects of the actors' action. In cultural synthesis, there are no spectators; the object of the actors' action is the reality to be transformed for the liberation of men.

In Russia kettlebells are a matter of national pride and a symbol of strength. In the olden days, any strongman or weightlifter was referred to as a girevik, or "kettlebell man." Steeled by their kettlebells, generation after generation of Russian boys has turned to men.

To Bette Davis, Gena Rowlands, Romy Schneider... To all actresses who have played actresses, to all women who act, to all men who act and become women, to all the people who want to be mothers. To my mother. - Dedication, Todo Sobre Mi Madre

For although to give with grace Is the noblest act 'mongst men, To take back the gift again Is the basest of the base.

There are no perfect men in this world, only perfect intentions.

Yet when she stole another glance at him, she had to laugh at the face he was pulling. "What is it about you men and physicking? Wave a bottle of cod liver oil under your nose and you run like a prairie chicken. Then come winter let that same nose catch a rheum and to hear you moan, one'd think you were dying. And what are you snickering over, Benjo Yoder? You're the worst of the lot.