Men Quotes · Page 540

Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.

— Erica Jong

I think all women in all industries have more obstacles than men.

— Hannah Hart

Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.

— Calvin Coolidge

The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.

— Samuel Johnson

Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The category "Women Poets" is bizarre and irrelevant. It's a subcategory of Poets, but there is not a "Men Poets" category.

— Vanna Bonta

No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due…

— Saint Augustine

Honestly, I feel like I am a leading man, and it's just going to take the right project, the female and the…

— Mike Epps

I want women -- and men -- to feel empowered by a deeper and more psychotic part of themselves. The part they're…

— Lady Gaga

In a world where data is coin of the realm, and transmissions are guarded by no better sentinels than man-made codes and…

— C.S. Friedman

The present age handed over the workers, each alone and defenseless, to the unbridled greed of competitors... so that a very few…

— Pope Leo XIII

Painting... in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the…

— Lee Krasner

I especially don't want men coming up to me and asking if sexism still exists. It's like, I'm seriously gonna barf a…

— Kathleen Hanna

...in certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance.

— Herman Melville

The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone…

— Immanuel Kant

Some men look at Constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them, like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.…

— Thomas Jefferson

I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats of any kind, whether of jail…

— Boris Pasternak

Humans became easy prey when they moved from the forest to the savanna, which deprived them of the option of climbing trees…

— Frans de Waal

I have a song called "Men." I mean, manhood and trying to be one, and failing as one, and trying to be…

— Loudon Wainwright III

That hour in the life of a man when first the help of humanity fails him, and he learns that in his…

— Herman Melville

I don't care if I tell that story and John Roderick gets up afterward and yells, 'I hope you enjoyed the white…

— John Hodgman

If they think they are doing something new, they ought to do what I do every day - spend at least two…

— Coleman Hawkins

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is…

— Confucius

Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Every man starts with all there is. Everything is here-the essence and substance of all there is.

— Henry Ford

When we love animals and children too much, we love them at the expense of men.

— Anonymous

There are two kinds of brave men: those who are brave by the grace of nature, and those who are brave by…

— Norman Mailer

“Time is redeemed when you make the most of your life by fulfilling God's purposes.”

— Elizabeth George

Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best.

— Confucius

I have always believed that the way my parents disciplined me has a great deal to do with the success I have…

— Adrian Peterson

Government does not have magic powers. In fact, the opposite is true; it is the least effective agency invented by man.

— Robert Prechter

My dad was born in 1905, and the men from that period were real men. He prepared me for the world.

— Fantastic Negrito

In some way or other we are part of a single, all-embracing psyche, a single 'greatest man. . . .'

— Carl Jung

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This is the step up people have wanted. [Wladimir] Klitschko wants his belts back, may the best man win.

— Anthony Joshua

Success is uncommon, not to be found by the common man. I'm looking for uncommon people.

— Cal Stoll

Women deserve the same permanent rights and explicit protections given men in the Constitution.

— Carolyn Maloney

I respect women but do not necessarily believe that women need to compete with men.

— Ashish Sharma

As a woman, you accept the situation, adapt to it, and do your best, whereas men would choose violence.

— Asne Seierstad