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The men who seem to know most of God's power have had great, unspeakable longings, at times, for a fresh consciousness of that power.
I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.
If a man says that he is Jesus Christ, it is no answer to tell him that the world denies his divinity; for the world denied Christ's.
I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.
To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control over what they make.
Critics of art are like eunuchs in harem. They see how it's done when the men come to see the women, but they can't do it themselves.
In the midst of the disguises and artifices that reign among men, it is only attention and vigilance that can save us from surprises.
A fruitfly is ancient in 40 days, a mouse at 3 years, a horse at 30, a man at 100, and some species of tortoises not until 150 years.
The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
Every heart is the lair of a ferocious animal. The greatest wrong that you can put upon a man is to provoke him to let out his beast.
The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.
Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.
If interviews are just interviews or if music is just music, why are we even doing it? You only get so many hours in a lifetime, man.
A man who went to the 'footie' match on Saturday afternoon and played eighteen holes of golf was really doing his duty by the nation.
Men ... are so conservative, so selfish, so boresome, and ... they are so ugly, and ... they are gullible, anybody can convince them.
No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.
It is not possible to build on negative emotions. Genuine literature will come only when we replace hatred for man with love for man.
Women do not always have to write about women, or gay men about gay men. Indeed, something good and new might happen if they did not.
One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.
All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.
Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses.
Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.
Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation.
The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.
Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card.
I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion.
Sorry,” he said, his voice thick and gruff. “It’s morning and you’re sitting on me. That’s a combination meant to bring any man down.
It is only on the basis of the probable and the apparent that men bereft of a sixth sense are able to sit in judgment over other men.
Hardworking men and women deserve not only job security, but also a paycheck when they need to take time off to care for a loved one.
Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.
Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all.
A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed.
Sammantha: Tucker? Tucker: Does some other man call at this hour just to hear your voice? If so, give me his name, and I'll kill him.
The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper.
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
They say a good man is worth fighting for. But a man who's good for YOU shouldn't make you fight just for the right to be in his life.
Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have yet to live.
You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant; to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man.
Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man.
The idea of blaming alcohol or drugs or quote-unquote "promiscuity" is a false path. The real issue is that men should not hurt women.
With wives, men hide behind the air of bravado, which is basically a defence mechanism, I think. Clever creatures, women. Very clever.
There is no escaping, at times, the gloomy suspicion that fiddling with pens and ink is, after all, no fit employment for a grown man.
Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic
Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination.
Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.
If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.
The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget.
..while I was happy enough to pray to any god, knowing that they were simply different faces created by men, of one indivisible truth.