Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henri Nouwen

The central question is, Are the leaders of the future truly men and women of God, people with an ardent desire to dwell in God's presence, to listen to God's voice, to look at God's beauty, to touch God's incarnate Word and to taste fully God's infinite goodness.

Henri Nouwen

The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering.

Henri Nouwen

The world is waiting for new saints, ecstatic men and women who are so deeply rooted in the love of God that they are free to imagine a new international order.

Henri Nouwen

The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.

Hedy Lamarr

Men are fine, love is fine, it's marriage I'm a little disappointed in.

Hedy Lamarr

I enjoy countless hundreds pursuing me. I love those who love me the most. I am sort of flattered by men showing attention to me.

Heinrich Himmler

I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men of German origin, who of course had, in most cases, to alter their names if they wanted to get anywhere.

Heath Ledger

It's like anything in life, visualizing the old man you're going to become: As long as you have a clear picture of that — the life you want to lead — eventually you'll probably get there.

Hattie McDaniel

The entire race is usually judged by the actions of one man or woman

Hippolyte Taine

Change a virtue in its circumstances find it becomes a vice; change a vice in its circumstances, and it becomes a virtue. Regard the same quality from two sides; on one it is a fault, on the other a merit. The essential of a man is found concealed far below these moral badges.

Hippolyte Taine

There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.

Herve Villechaize

I've always been a proud man.

Hernando Cortes

What men in all the world have shown such daring?

Hermione Gingold

There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere.

Hesketh Pearson

[D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice.... Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without a conscience a man may never be said to grow old. This is an age of very old young men.

Hesiod

Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man, Inhibition, which does men great harm and great good. Inhibition attaches to poverty, boldness to wealth.

Hesiod

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

Hesiod

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Hesiod

Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man

Hesiod

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

Hesiod

The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.

Hesiod

In the race for wealth, a neighbor tries to outdo his neighbor, but this strife is good for men. For the potter envies potter, and the carpenter the carpenter, and the beggar rivals the beggar, and the singer the singer.

Hesiod

Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.

Hesiod

A sparing tongue is the greatest treasure among men.

Hesiod

For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by night.

Hesiod

And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.

Hesiod

Evil can be got very easily and exists in quantity: the road to her is very smooth, and she lives near by. But between us and virtue the gods have placed the sweat of our brows; the road to her is long and steep, and it is rough at first; but when a man has reached the top, then she is easy to attain, although before she was hard.

Hesiod

This man, I say, is most perfect who shall have understood everything for himself, after having devised what may be best afterward and unto the end.

Hesiod

Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.

Hesiod

The best man of all is he who knows everything himself. Good also the man who accepts another's sound advice; but the man who neither knows himself nor takes to hear what another says, he is no good at all.

Hesiod

But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.

Hesiod

A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it

Hesiod

It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.