Quotes about men
men drug ignorant
It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them, and the same thing has occasionally happened in the body. The time may come when penicillin can be bought by anyone in the shops. Then there is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and by exposing his microbes to non-lethal quantities of the drug make them resistant. Alexander Fleming
men giving able
The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give. Alexander Alekhine
men perfection form
I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men. Albrecht Durer
men sight vision
Sight is the noblest sense of man.
men america eras
An era that I specifically like is sort of late 50's, early 60's. I guess mid 50's too. I like these types of films that deal with post WWII America and this more complex leading man that kind of emerges from that. Alden Ehrenreich
men wrath lasts
Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old. Alcaeus
men cities brave
Brave men are a city's strongest tower of defence.
men bags records
You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation. Aldrich Ames
men people roles
There's three things: there's masculinity, there's intelligence, there's sensitivity. You've got to bring those three things to a leading man's role: masculinity, sensitivity, intelligence. In some people, there's a little too much in the mix of one or the other. Alec Baldwin
men ill
For better or ill, I was very heavily influenced by men I knew who always dressed formally.
men land impact
Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. There is no other way for land to survive the impact of mechanized man, nor for us to reap from it the aesthetic harvest it is capable, under science, of contributing to culture Aldo Leopold
men animal boards
There are men charged with the duty of examining the construction of the plants, animals, and soils which are the instruments of the great orchestra. These men are called professors. Each selects one instrument and spends his life taking it apart and describing its strings and sounding boards. This process of dismemberment is called research. The place for dismemberment is called a university.
men return scales
All history consists of successive excursions from a single starting-point, to which man returns again and again to organize yet another search for a durable scale of values.
men body demand
A profession is a body of men who voluntarily measure their work by a higher standard than their clients demand. To be professionally acceptable, a policy must be sound as well as salable. Wildlife administration, in this respect, is not yet a profession.
men tests lightning
Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning.
men civilization support
Civilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relationship with gadgets and middlemen that awareness of it is growing dim. We fancy that industry supports us, forgetting what supports industry.
men civilization raw-materials
Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.
men hay-fever levels
Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education.
men self ideas
Ideas, like men, can become dictators. We Americans have so far escaped regimentation by our rulers, but have we escaped regimentation by our own ideas? I doubt if there exists today a more complete regimentation of the human mind than that accomplished by our self-imposed doctrine of ruthless utilitarianism.
men years brave-new-world-happiness
They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now" "But God doesn't change" "Men do though Aldous Huxley
men choices world
Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
men secret doubt
Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
men intelligent world
Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.
men iron age
Industrial man—a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.
mending
Ending is better than mending.
men years two
Who lives longer? The man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time.
men thinking mind
Today we are faced, I think, with the approach of what may be called the ultimate revolution, the final revolution, where man can act directly on the mind-body of his fellows.
men statistics simplify
Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.
men evil rooms
The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.
men significant-things house
Experience is not a matter of having actually swum the Hellespont, or danced with the dervishes, or slept in a doss-house. It is a matter of sensibility and intuition, of seeing, and hearing the significant thing, of paying attention at the right moments, of understanding and coordinating. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
men brain spiders
Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men can't help making symbols. That's what the human brain is there for - the turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols.
men infinite distraction
In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.
men vitality ethics
The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac.