“It's a mystery. A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
There are black men who are madly in love with white women. God bless them, if that's what works for them. I… — Nia Long Copy Share Image
There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The third class consists of men to whom nothing seems great but reason. If force interests them, it is not in its… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
In the United States the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common; but there is no country in the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
So behave that the odor of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere, that when we behold or scent… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I do occasionally wonder, if you were to bring to life one of those young men who sacrificed themselves in what was… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state,… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
The psychological and physiological mechanism of love is so complex that at a certain period in his life a young man must… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries - a million complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture. Nature can cope with… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are. If we have sons, we don't mind… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently: they are most helplessly in its power. The men who… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What Taika [Watiti] still bring to it [Hunt for the Wilderpeople], it really sums up what life is like in New Zealand,… — Rhys Darby Copy Share Image
It is always the case with the best work, that it is misrepresented, and disparaged at first, for it takes a curiously… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
“[Y]ou are not ashamed of your sin [in committing adultery] because so many men commit it. Man's wickedness is now such that… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The Eucharist completes the restoration begun in the Crib. Make merry therefore on this beautiful day, on which the sun of the… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
How can a man be satisfied to entertain an opinion merely, and enjoy it? Is there any enjoyment in it, if his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Theoretically, I grant you, there is no possibility of error in necessary reasoning. But to speak thus "theoretically," is to uselanguage in… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
All too willingly man sees himself as the centre of the universe, as something not belonging to the rest of nature but… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
A being who can create a race of men devoid of real freedom and inevitably foredoomed to be sinners, and then punish… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Thought ... is still possible, and no doubt actual, wherever men live under the conditions of political freedom. Unfortunately ... no other… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is a good lesson - though it may often be a hard one - for a man... to step aside out… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
What all the ads and whorescopes seemed to imply was that if only you took proper care of your smells, your hair,… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Having been issued the false prospectus of happiness through unlimited sex, modern man concludes, when he is not happy with his life,… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
The distance at which all shooting weapons take effect screens the killer against the stimulus sensation which would otherwise activate his killing… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Change for me was really hard because I had built myself up to be a certain kind of man my whole life,… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
Today I see more clearly than yesterday that the back of the problem of race and color lies a greater problem which… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The study of letters is the study of the operation of human force, of human freedom and activity; the study of nature… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The word "Blue" does not mean the sensation caused by a gentian on the human eye; but it means the power of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
We may treat of the Soul as in the body - whether it be set above it or actually within it -… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
Life is more than a theory, and love of truth butters no bread: old men who have had to struggle along their… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Musalia [Mudavadi] was created by [Daniel Toroitich arap] Moi and given his seat after his father's death since Musalia's was one of… — Raila Odinga Copy Share Image
Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men; As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves, are 'clept All… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who… — Aristotle Copy Share Image