Quotes about men
men solitude loner
Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude. John Stuart Blackie
men humanity shadow
Man is a substance clad in shadows. John Sterling
men color ideas
Color, in the outward world, answers to feeling in man; shape, to thought; motion, to will. The dawn of day is the nearest outward likeness of an act of creation; and it is, therefore, also the closest type in nature for that in us which most approaches to creation--the realization of an idea by an act of the will.
men clients trouble
The ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.
men color feelings
Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.
men folly caricatures
Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.
men circumcision done
Circumcision stands for a religion of human achievement, of what man can do by his own good works; Christ stands for a religion of divine achievement, of what God has done through the finished work of Christ. John Stott
men speech down-and
Our claim is that God has revealed Himself by speaking; that this divine (or God-breathed) speech has been written down and preserved in Scripture; and that Scripture is, in fact, God's Word written, which therefore is true and reliable and has divine authority over men.
men sea soul
He had said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god. It meant that Kino would drive his strength against a mountain and plunge his strength against the sea. Juana, in her woman's soul, knew that the mountain would stand while the man broke himself; that the sea would surge while the man drowned in it. And yet it was this thing that made him a man, half insane and half god, and Juana had need of a man; she could not live without a man. John Steinbeck
men self self-love
...no gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love.
men fruit world
Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten.
men california endurance
The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California.
men knights one-day
I have seen too many men go down, and I never permit myself to forget that one day, through accident or under the charge of a younger, stronger knight, I too will go down.
men two challenges
For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, challenges the world and does even worse things. The last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma.
men animal feel-good
We have never understood why men mount the heads of animals and hang them up to look down on their conquerers. Possibly it feels good to these men to feel superior to animals, but does it not seem that if they were sure of it they would not have to prove it? Often a man who is afraid must constantly demonstrate his courage and, in the case of the hunter, must keep a tangible record of his courage.
men tails good-god
Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.
men trying pay
Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try.
men thinking singing
The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing. But surely they were both intended to accomplish the same thing: the singing, the devotion, the poetry of the churches took a man out of his bleakness for a time, and so did the brothels.
men wrath suffering
And this you can know- fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe.
men fields moved-on
The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.
men giving guilty
But you must give him some sign, some sign that you love him... or he'll never be a man. All his life he'll feel guilty and alone unless you release him.
men may today
Man himself has become our greatest hazard and our only hope. So that today, St. John the apostle may well be paraphrased: In the end is the Word, and the Word is Man - and the Word is with Men.
men want layers
In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.
men he-man conversation
Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself.
men thinking brave
I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were.
men hatred together
I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural hatred of each other is not so apparent.
men doe letters
A man who gets few letters does not open one lightly.
men needs company
But a man needs company.
men jewels rivers
Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels. They gathered mountains and valleys, rivers and whole horizons, the way a man might now gain tittle to building lots.
men house despair
I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house, and he will die of despair.
men hazards
Man has become our greatest hazard, and our only hope.
men misery sometimes
The misery stayed, not thought about but aching away, and sometimes I would have to ask myself, Why do I ache? Men can get used to anything, but it takes time.
men together association
There's nothing sadder to me than associations held together by nothing but the glue of postage stamps. If you can't see or hear or touch a man, it's best to let him go.