Quotes about men
mentally spring theme tough
Being mentally tough is what the theme of the spring is going to be for us. E. B. White
men shut strong top tower within
But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower.
men roles way
I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways. Neil Innes
men tunes needs
Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune. Neil Diamond
men law earth
When asked about which scientist he'd like to meet, Neil deGrasse Tyson said, "Isaac Newton. No question about it. The smartest person ever to walk the face of this earth. The man was connected to the universe in spooky ways. He discovered the laws of motion, the laws of gravity, the laws of optics. Then he turned 26. Neil deGrasse Tyson
men two ducks
The ducks in St James's Park are so used to being fed bread by secret agents meeting clandestinely that they have developed their own Pavlovian reaction. Put a St James's Park duck in a laboratory cage and show it a picture of two men -- one usually wearing a coat with a fur collar, the other something sombre with a scarf -- and it'll look up expectantly. Neil Gaiman
men thinking our-world
We look about in puzzlement at our world, with a sense of unease and disquiet. We think of ourselves as scholars in arcane liturgies, single men trapped in worlds beyond our devising. The truth is far simpler: there are things in the darkness beneath us that wish us harm.
men use get-away
Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.
men agony car
The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony columns and commercials for soap, income tax and cheap restaurants, magazines and credit cards and streetlights and computers... 'It is escapism, true,' he said, aloud. 'But is not the highest impulse in mankind the urge toward freedom, the drive to escape?
men guests apologizing
He entertained these thoughts awkwardly, as a man entertains unexpected guests. Then, as he reached his objective, he pushed these thoughts away, as a man apologizes to his guests, and leaves them, muttering something about a prior engagement.
men people mind
You made peace,” said the buffalo man. “You took our words and made them your own. They never understood that they were here—and the people who worshiped them were here—because it suits us that they are here. But we can change our minds. And perhaps we will.
men honest cheat
You can always cheat an honest man, but it takes more work.
men shadow american-gods
Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead
men thinking missing
Some of us claim that he was a messiah, and some think that he was just a man with very special powers. But that misses the point. Whatever he was, he changed the world.
men watches crosses
Actually I didn't shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die, but he could tell I was extremely cross.
men phones owl
My very small part in WATCHMEN is that, every now and then, Alan would phone me: ''Neil, you're an educated man. Where does it say...'' He would need a quote from the Bible, or an essay about owls. I was his occasional research assistant.
men yesterday worry
The best thing—in Shadow's opinion, perhaps the only good thing—about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd plunged as low as he could plunge and he'd hit bottom. He didn't worry that the man was going to get him, because the man had got him. He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, because yesterday had brought it.
men clothes bird
While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe.
men doctors blue
Doctor Who has never pretended to be hard science fiction … At best Doctor Who is a fairytale, with fairytale logic about this wonderful man in this big blue box who at the beginning of every story lands somewhere where there is a problem.
men self differences
The ultimate difference between God's wisdom and man's wisdom is how they relate to the glory of God's grace in Christ crucified. God's wisdom makes the glory of God's grace our supreme treasure. But man's wisdom delights in seeing himself as resourceful, self-sufficient, self determining, and not utterly dependent on God's free grace. John Piper
men accountability liberty
American liberty is premised on the accountability of free men and women for what they have done, not for what they may do. John Newman
men treasure cia
The men and women of the CIA are a national treasure. John O. Brennan
men giving revolution
The whole technological revolution and evolution gives man tremendous capabilities for good, and it also gives individuals tremendous capability to carry out what result in lethal action.
men doe he-man
The man who respects a woman does not know what else to do with her. John Norman
men age handsome
I was a theater man, so I was never in the situation of being a handsome Hollywood leading man, and then having to age. John Noble
men lambs worship
Whether men are pleased or not, we will, we must, worship the Lamb that was slain. John Newton
men garden tree
When a man plants a tree, he plants himself. John Muir
men animal landscape
Man is always and everywhere a blight on the landscape.
men thinking soul
They tell us that plants are not like man immortal, but are perishable-soul -less. I think that is something that we know exactly nothing about.
men squares flesh
Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of flesh? Who would call that life?
men tides may
So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
men bears would-be
Ihave precious little sympathy for theselfish proprietyof civilized man, and if awarof racesshould occurbetween the wild beasts and Lord Man, I would be tempted to sympathise with the bears.
men animal touched
Man has injured every animal he has touched.