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An open sack hides nothing, And an open door hides little, but an open man is surely hiding something. lini is quoted by Nynaeve.
The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.
[Doctor Strange ] is slightly more specialised than Spider-Man or Superman or Batman, but he's very loved by people who know him.
With a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world-no middle man, no big brother. I guess this changes everything.
It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.
I'm interested in genius the way a hungry man is interested in Philadelphia cheesesteaks. I want something. I want a piece of it.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
What is it about men, anyway? You can't live with 'em and the law frowns on neutering them. It's not exactly a win-win situation.
Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
There are three things important to every man in this locker room. His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In that order.
Man, I love the Lord of the Rings movies. Some people would say I'm weird for liking those types of movies, but they are so cool.
What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.
I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
Intelligent men have no need to listen to much talk, but should attend only to that which is profitable and guided by God's will.
Men use women sexually. They use them, mistreat them, even from the point of view of vocabulary, the use of words. It baffles me.
We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.
A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love.
That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.
If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!
Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal returns.
A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted into something specific.
If men only believe enough in Christ they can commit adultery and murder a thousand times a day without periling their salvation.
I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.
I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.
If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around.
The only time I ever met a character that I wrote was when I met Ian McKellan, when he was playing Magneto in the 'X-Men' movies.
It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.
It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.
You can have ambition But not too much You should aim to be successful But not too successful Otherwise you will threaten the man
Glamour is what makes a man ask for your telephone number. But it also is what makes a woman ask for the name of your dressmaker.
The moment man cuts himself off from living connection with the human race and its needs, he begins to die from poor circulation.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
If ye loved him, he must ha' been a good man.' 'Yes, he...was.' 'Then I shall do my best to honor his spirit by serving his wife.
Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.
Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.
Feminism now seems to be defined as success is defined: as being as good at capitalism as men are. I feel very estranged from it.
If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man.
It is too disgusting to contemplate that a handful of men keep millions of women from being constitutional citizens of this land.
Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.
There is an element of seduction in shoes that doesn't exist for men. A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.
Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.
No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.
When a broken tank is filled with water, It certainly will leak on every side. Weak men who grow rich Seldom leave an inheritance.
Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction!
Spacemen - men who work in space, pilots and jetmen and astrogators and such - are men who like a few million miles of elbow room.
For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.
It is better to be nothing than a follower of other painters. The wise man has said when one follows another one is always behind.
Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!
How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.