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You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.
By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.
Do ye want me?" he whispered. "Sassenach, will ye take me - and risk the man that I am, for the sake of the man ye knew?
Maybe I’m weak for music men. Maybe I’m weak, period. But I couldn’t deny I was charmed by his arrogant, fool-ish guise.
Alas the Master; so he sinks in death. But whoso knows the mystery of man Sees life and death as curves of the same plan
Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men; in praise we act like angels.
Burning books is not as grave as burning people, because books, contrary to men, are not unique and ideas are fireproof!
There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death.
Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.
I felt his hot tears and the loneliness of man and the sweetness of all men and the aching haunting beauty of the living
Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
I just really have an affinity for women. Watching them go through journeys is more interesting to me than watching men.
My dad's mission for me has always been to be a man they would write about, somebody that can be respected in the world.
Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.
Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties.
Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.
Chuck Daly was a man and a coach who everyone had great respect for, and to be recognized in his memory is very special.
Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him.
Though the biggest fault of the big man is tolerated easily, the smallest fault of the little man is not endured at all!
There are two things at which most men are grieved: when their faults are exposed, and when their virtues are concealed.
Let me tell you what justice is. Justice is the law. And that man's feeble attempt to lay down the principles of deceny.
The commander must establish personal and comradely contact with his men, but without giving away one inch of authority.
I do ballads that say what every man wants to say and that every woman wants to hear, or I do songs about social issues.
I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.
Men of prayer must be men of steel, for they will be assaulted by Satan even before they attempt to assault his kingdom.
Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures.
It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.
Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites are paid.
In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.
Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
In the end men love better that for which they have made sacrifices than that through which they have enjoyed pleasures.
I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.
Civilization, or "the system" or "society" or whatever you want to call it, is best served not by mules but by free men.
That is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity?I care about others as well.
Senator John Stennis: The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul.
Let us remind ourselves that it is ordinary people - men and women, boys and girls - that make the world a special place
Man, if they played the commercials for 'Murderball' as much as they do for 'Hustle & Flow,' 'Murderball' would blow up!
One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
I'm trying to find a man to share my life with, but it's not been easy. I'm a 35-year-old woman with two small children.
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
The language of men was involved with only one hemisphere in order to leave the other free for the language of the gods.
The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.
As the quality of water changes with the nature of the soil;So will a man's reason vary with the quality of his friends.
That's also one of the reasons I haven't found a man - he has to get past the other girls first and they are very picky!
When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot bee much. [When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot be much.]
The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.
It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.
Men are so delving into the mysteries of things that today a boy of twenty knows more than twenty doctors formerly knew.
The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged.